Quotes About Self-perception

He turned to face her again, his late-pretty composure crumbling. But you're... Pretty? Think again. She smiled. I'm Tally Youngbood. My mind is very ugly. And I'm taking your car.

maybe when you look at your face 50 times its really not that interesting anymore

Tudo quanto se acha fora de nós parece mais belo, e todos os homens mais perfeitos do que nós. E isto é natural porque sentimos demasiado as nossas imperfeições e os outros sempre parecem possuir precisamente aquilo que nos falta.

Die alberne Figur, die ich mache, wenn in Gesellschaft von ihr gesprochen wird, solltest du sehen! Wenn man mich nun gar fragt, wie sie mir gefällt?—gefällt! Das Wort hasse ich auf den Tod. Was muß das für ein Mensch sein, dem Lotte gefällt, dem sie nicht alle Sinne, alle Empfindungen ausfüllt!

Ma cosa è mai l'uomo, per poter lagnarsi di se stesso?

A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only he himself can damage that. His reputations what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. Hamlet could be told from Polonius's point of view and called The Tragedy of Polonius, Lord Chamberlain of Denmark. He didn't think he was a minor character in anything, I daresay.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. Hamlet could be told from Polonius's point of view and called The Tragedy of Polonius, Lord Chamberlain of Denmark. He didn't think he was a minor character in anything, I daresay.

Whatever you think you are, that's what you are

The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.

One could put it another way: the publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.

To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.

Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves. The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed is female. Thus she turns herself into an object of vision: a sight.

Remember us better than we are.

Tis all in pieces, all coherence gone, All just supply, and all relation; Prince, subject, father, son, are things forgot, For every man alone thinks he hath got To be a phoenix, and that then can be None of that kind, of which he is, but he.

I'VE LEARNED THAT YOU CAN'T CONTROL WHAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE GOING TO THINK ABOUT YOU. THE BEST YOU CAN DO IN LIFE IS NOT PISS YOURSELF OFF.

I feel a real connection to Brooklyn, certainly, because I spent 20 years of my life there, but I don't think of myself as a Brooklyn artist any more than I think of myself as a male artist.

I think if actors don't think of themselves as funny in real life they think they can't do comedy.

I was made to believe that my life was going to be fixed and it wasn't. I'm still the same loser who had flown to Los Angeles on my sister's frequent flier miles just six days before.

I was a bigger-than-life persona before I was anyone in my own mind.

The only thing that matters in life is your own opinion about yourself, nobody can destroy your dignity then, because it is not dependent on anybody's opinion.

That's what makes life so hard for women, that instead of thinking that this is the way things are, we always think it's the way we are.

Most people I know feel that life would be complete if they could just lose ten pounds.

I always feel as if describing how I feel and think about myself is too complicated—it's as if I can hear the whole conversation in advance, and I know all of the twists and turns it will take before they happen, so why bother? The effort just isn't worth it.