Quotes About Self-perception

It's true I'm more widely recognised now and get invited to take part in all sorts of events and projects but as a person, I haven't changed.

Even if I wore a hat and a wig, you can always tell it's me.

I go wild on a stage. Some folks have measured us an image. They pretend us to be saints. And that image is much tougher to keep up with. Because that's not who we are.

If you're young and wild, you tend to believe your clippings. One day you're Hemingway. The next day you're nothing.

Since I think I am very boring in normal life, I tend to hide behind all these exciting characters, making people believe that I am someone else entirely. That feeling is very powerful.

I tend to really duck down and make myself smaller than I already am.

Gay men in L.A. are all a bunch of tens looking for an eleven.

There are some musicians who are talented and see themselves as some kind of natural geniuses or something because of a certain amount of natural ability. But that is often rarely the case over the long term.

I have never considered myself a prodigy. Others have used that term, but I never bought in to it.

If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television. It doesn't do you any favours in terms of showing you what you look like and what your emotions are.

It's a business, and I'm a product. Terrible, isn't it?

I used to joke that, since breastfeeding, my boobs looked like an old athletic sock with some loose change at the bottom, so when I felt a lump the size of a marble, I knew something was terribly wrong.

People are always asking me on to quizzes - they think I know all the answers because I burble on so, but I don't do terribly well.

You can't convince someone else - whether it's a potential employer, a loan officer at the car dealership, or someone you've been crushing on - that you're amazing and terrific if you don't actually think you are.

In high school I was the dog, always, and I never have felt comfortable or right in my body, and part of my whole exhibitionist thing has probably been a way of testing to see whether or not I really was this repulsive creature that I felt like for so long.

I'm at that age where if you flattened out all the wrinkles I'd be seven feet tall.

Sometimes just when I say hello the right way, I'm like, 'Whoa, I'm so cool.'

I never really considered myself attractive. I was always kind of gangly in school.

We tell ourselves our own stories, selectively, in order to keep our sense of self intact.

How learned and fine we believed ourselves to be! How shitty of the world to deal with us this way.

Since every member of the family has to conform to the illusions of parental or family love, this process also demands that the child distort his or her sense of reality and of the self.

Furthermore, the image of parental strength and goodness always occurs in close conjunction with the development of a negative image of self. Patients who hate and blame themselves or perceive themselves as basically unlovable are defending and idealizing their parents.

I consider myself an average man except for the fact that I consider myself an average man.

When he went into the bathroom and looked at himself in the mirror, he thought his features were changing. I look like a gentleman, he said to himself sometimes. I look younger. I look like someone else