Quotes About Self-perception

I had delusions of being a 'serious actor,' and I wanted to pursue those delusions.

I look like that in the morning: my hair's all greasy - it's not, 'Hey, look at the babe of the band!' I hate that kind of thing, the way women are always pushed forward as beauties... it's very easy: you can make the ugliest pig look lovely in a photograph.

Guys are leery about putting on something they don't think is them. They have a fixed idea of themselves.

When I got to NYU, I had applied based on playing folk music, and they said, 'You're the banjo girl,' so I thought ,'OK, I'm the banjo girl.'

If you're an actor, you tend to fool yourself into thinking you're much younger than you are because you're playing parts and behaving like a child all the time.

If you take it as a compliment that you don't look your age, then you're really shooting yourself in the foot.

I am only six foot three, by the way.

I might not be a great athlete, but I think I'm a real good football player.

I struggle to see myself as Tyrone Mings the Ipswich footballer. I'm just Tyrone from Chippenham.

Maybe some people look at me and just see a footballer, or a black footballer. But I am much more than this. I tell my best friends all the time, 'If you look at me as a footballer, and not as Little Kouli, and not as your friend, then I have failed in life.'

We seem, particularly over here in the West and in America in particular, to have forgotten that we are, in large measures, the story we tell ourselves about ourselves.

I don't think of myself as a former actor. I think of myself as a reformed actor.

I can consider myself my audience, and I'm not that weird. I'm fortunate in the things that I like, most people like.

How I view my body hasn't been uncomplicated, but that was because my body was discussed and dissected at great length in a very public forum, when I was at a formative age.

Now, I don't think I'd particularly care if somebody criticised me for having got to a certain level of success because I'm Ed Fox's and Joanna David's son. I know that's not true.

Fifty - it's going to be for the rest of my life. I'm going to count myself as a 50-year-old, sing like I'm 50, and act like I am, too. That's how I feel, and I believe if you have that frame of mind, it keeps you young.

I always felt like a fraud.

I'm quite open to the fact that I might be a tinfoil-hat freak.

I never see my movies. When they're on television, I click them away. Hollywood created an image, and I long ago reconciled myself with it. I was the French cliche.

But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director.

The way we like to think of ourselves is not the way we look. We like to think of ourselves as more evolved than we frequently are.

I don't feel like I make sense in the world. I don't feel like I look right. I don't feel like I act right or do right. It's very frustrating to me that I just walk around with this all the time.

I wear false eyelashes at work so I get used to that fuller look all the time, so when I get home, I'm like 'ugh, it's not the same.'

Funk, I don't think I have anything to do with funk. I've never considered myself funky.