Quotes About Self-perception

I was the All-American kid, or so I told myself - good grades, never in trouble, bright future, well-respected by my peers. My favorite comedian was Bob Newhart.

I myself never feel that I'm sexy. If people call me cute, I am happier.

I think it's hilarious if people say that my body looks masculine.

Some people say I'm attractive. I say I agree.

I feel like people start to believe things that people say about them and start to think they're really important. If you have a family that is down to earth and cool, I don't see how you can be like that.

It's funny when people say you have sex appeal or call you the next Brad Pitt. I just laugh. I'm not that. I don't want to be that.

I'm trying to take all the media attention with a grain of salt. It is nice, but you are never as great as people say you are. And you're never as bad as others say you are.

Magazines and opinions of you and stuff like that, those will change, but your opinion of yourself does not have to based on what other people say. So I just learned that my inner voice has to be louder than their outside voice.

Well, I've never looked upon myself as being a beauty, per se.

My biggest fault is that I give people too much credit. Then they let you down. I'm 99.9 per cent perfect - that's how I look at myself and, therefore, everybody else too.

Be the person you want others to perceive you as. So if you want others to see you as a leader, then act like one. Don't expect things to be handed to you. You have to work for it.

How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me.

How girls perceive themselves is interesting, and how they act when they're looking in the mirror.

If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful.

I spent many years trying to fit in and do things the way I thought I was supposed to - trying to be perceived the way I thought people wanted to see me. I grew up in a very religious household and wasn't taught to feel comfortable or good about my sexuality, so it feels great to be able to say things the way I want to say them.

I introspect on how I am perceived by other people. It's been this way since my childhood.

The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem.

I'm not trying to come back and change the perception of what people think about me. They can think what they want to, man.

I don't see myself as the perfect person at all.

When I was younger, I used to love the idea of writing songs and performing them live. But that was all I thought about. I didn't think about people getting to know my face.

I loathe my name because it is mine and also because it is not mine; it is at once too intimate and seems to have no connection with me. Perhaps because the name is quite common, it never seems to fit me, or fit me alone. Nevertheless, when I see the name, I always feel a peculiar sense of shame.

I never felt happy with the idea that part of what I do is to be an object to be looked at. I thought of my public persona as an entity separate to myself.

You know you've checked into Heartbreak Hotel for real when you feel less desirable than uncooked fish.

The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.