Quotes About Self-perception

There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.

I might've been witty, but I didn't have a shtick. So, I never considered myself a comedian.

I was not a witty girl.

I never thought I was particularly good looking. But when I see old photographs, I realise that I was. I do wish I had known that at the time because beauty is power. I didn't realise how lucky I was to be young, beautiful and in Hollywood. It didn't hit me. Every day I woke up, went to the film studio and just got on with it.

For the first few years after I lost weight, I would feel for my hip bones every morning when I woke up so I would know I wasn't fat. It was like pinching myself so I'd know I wasn't dreaming.

Outside every thin woman is a fat man trying to get in.

I would love to be that woman in a scarf and large glasses pretending I'm in a Fellini movie, but that's just not my reality.

I used to think I was ugly. I thought I looked like a camel. A person who doesn't love themselves, they will see anything that pops up on their face. I've seen squirrels, I've seen a bird, and I've seen all kinds of animals on my face. But that is the result of self-hate. I've learned to say: 'You know what? I am a beautiful black woman'.

I don't really think I am the most beautiful woman in the world at all. If I can create some illusion to that effect - and it seems I have - then that is what spells success to me.

Everybody knows that I'm not the most beautiful woman in the world.

The way woman is defined by marketable modeling and commercial standards... It makes me feel alien to myself.

I'm 24. I think when I was 18, 19, I had a problem with it because I wanted to look older and more womanly. I look in the mirror and I don't feel or look 14 to myself, regardless of what other people think. I'm fine with it and it really doesn't matter what age I'm playing.

Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.

People only hate what they see in themselves.

It's interesting that some people reading the comics see Scott Pilgrim as a blank slate in that they like to imagine themselves as Scott Pilgrim, so it's interesting that there are two kind of schools of thought about the character. One is, like, Scott Pilgrim is awesome. The second is Scott Pilgrim believes himself to be awesome.

Most salespeople would like to think of themselves as being rock stars, but they don't display the talent to match their definition.

If you can't tell a spoon from a ladle, then you're fat!

In therapy, I see myself in the mirror differently.

There's nothing I dislike more than being in a photo shoot where they say, 'Be yourself.' That's not why I became an actress. That's what I find so funny: that you become an actor, and all of a sudden, everyone wants to know about you. But I didn't become an actor so I could show you me.

I am quite a shy person. You say that to people, and they say, 'You do interviews, speeches. How can you be shy?' But, fundamentally, I am.

I'm thick, actually. But it doesn't bother me. I think I'm really clever.

I've always been thin. If you go back to when we first started I've always been skinny.

I'm healthy, but I'm not thin.

I am who I am and I don't pretend not to be single or burned. And men might not fancy me because I'm too short or too thin.