Quotes About Self-perception

I'm not a natural redhead, but I enjoy having red hair.

I am not a redhead. I have never been and am still not. Well, just a little... but I was blond as a kid and then mousy brown. As I got older... it came up. I've got a lot of red in my hair, but I'm not a ginge.

Just drawing on my own experience, I never - I never - personally reference myself as old. I don't think of myself as old, but I certainly would not say that to a man.

People have referred to me as 'innocent', which makes me feel disingenuous.

My hands aren't even that big.

I was always handsome under all the fat.

I didn't grow up feeling very handsome.

There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid'. I was who I was. Which isn't to say things haven't happened to me that wouldn't have happened if I wasn't black.

I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.

'Arnold Layne' just happens to dig dressing up in women's clothing. A lot of people do - so let's face up to reality.

I think what happens is, people do just want to see you as a glamour doll that's put up on screen, but I guess it's how you see yourself.

I feel like I'm quite harsh on myself.

Women's behavior in handling beauty, even before feminism, was to deny they had any. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.

I've always hated the way I looked, and I've never complained about my brains.

I've always hated my voice. You sound different in your head when you hear it out loud.

The self is hateful.

No, I never did hats. I didn't - never felt they were so becoming to me.

I still consider myself a little, fat kid from Hawaii.

I don't see myself as beautiful. I was a kid who was freckle-faced, and they used to call me 'hay head.'

I don't really think of myself as a heartthrob. I've got a lot of brothers, and there's a natural competitiveness between us when it comes to girls. If I said something about being a heartthrob, then they would bring me straight back down to earth!

I don't really think of myself as a heartthrob.

Starting in my 20s, I couldn't wait to look like Anna Magnani or Isabelle Huppert, all these great European actresses - Charlotte Rampling - the cheekbones and the heavy lidded eyes and the dark circles under the eyes, you know. So around 42/44, I started getting a little character on my face, and I was so glad.

Barbie ruined my life! It's a really bad image for women. For a long time I thought I was deformed - because my heels didn't touch the ground. I was walking around on tiptoes. What's up with that? I think that it's a bad thing for a woman to try to emulate.

I guess what I've been told makes me dangerous is my height and length, so I just use that.