Quotes About Self-perception

I don't look at myself as a Scream Queen, and I don't plan on continuing on this genre route. If anything, I want to go very different places.

Well, it's a day-to-day thing. I don't feel comfortable in my body today at all. Any woman will tell you she has her good and bad days and today I did not feel like I looked my best or felt radiant inside or outside.

Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.

I thought I was really a radical, political person, which of course I am not.

Not to rag on myself, but when people say, 'What does it feel like to be an icon?' I'm like, 'My dog does not think I'm an icon, my cat does not think I am an icon, my cousin does not think I am an icon.' I have a really lovely group of friends, and I just don't think about it.

I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.

No one wants to be a rake, it's not attractive. Boys like a bum. Even I've got a bit of a bum.

I've never even been out of my BMI range. I'm 5-foot-3. If I gain five pounds, it shows.

The funny thing is, I don't actually think of myself as fat at all. I don't think I am. Not really.

The mind is a funny thing in how it works. Sometimes you have to tell yourself what's really true. If you don't, your mind starts trying to tell you lies.

I don't think I gain anything by seeing myself.

As a younger actor you want to be approved of, you want to gain respect, be admired. All of those things. To say: 'This is me playing this character. And aren't I fantastic!' I don't feel that so much now.

I am so broad and big-structured that even two kilos on me can look like gaining 10 kilos, and losing two kilos can also look like shedding 10 kilos.

I wouldn't see myself as a gambler.

Closing the confidence gap means being honest about your abilities, not constantly undervaluing them.

Be able to tell whether garments that look good on the hanger actually look good on you.

Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.

I definitely struggle with a disillusionment towards my body and my gender.

It's not really in my genes to be walking around looking like a body builder.

I do not consider myself a literal genius.

I always thought of myself as more American than Americans when I was living in Germany, because I always had this attitude of can-do, and if you're successful, you can show it, which is a very un-German thing, you know.

I know I'm small. But I don't feel small sometimes. I feel like a giant sometimes.

It's a good giggle to look back at yourself in your 20s. You thought you were so fierce and fabulous, and it's just embarrassing.

I've never seen myself as a 'girl driver.' I'm just a driver.