Quotes About Self-perception

I would have loved to have been Henry VIII; I would have been big and fat and no one would have cared.

I'm not a guitar hero.

Every character I play has to be the hero of his own story, the way we're all heroes of our own lives.

I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.

Every girl, without fail, loves to look at a sexy picture of herself.

I hate my name. Especially In Liverpool, when they say Hey, Reet... ' it sounds even worse. I don't think of myself as Rita Tushingham, but my mother'd have a fit if I changed it.

But I find it so difficult to go out and be like 'Hey, I'm a sexpot.' At home I'm just a mum with food down her top!

I'm not a natural leader. If you see me in a room, I'm the guy standing in a corner hiding. I'm not an alpha male.

The guys who play at a high level probably think they are better than they are, and that's all right.

I've always been a little high maintenance. I'm, like, upper-middle-class maintenance.

So I would always try and be the lightest I could. In high school, I really wouldn't eat. I would only have lunch and I would only have salads. And then it got so crazy as to just eating like a cracker or a cucumber a day and I would feel full.

I felt like the big geek in high school. And I still feel like a big geek.

You'll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.

No one thinks more highly of me than probably myself. I think that's fine.

I am content to be to myself what I would be. What I choose to seem to myself makes me what I am. My own thought makes me me; my own thought of myself is me. Another shall not make me! But another has made you, and can compel you to see what you have made yourself. You will not be able much longer to look to yourself anything but what he sees you! You will not much longer have satisfaction in the thought of yourself. At this moment you are aware of the coming change!

Never suspecting what a noble creature he was meant to be, he never saw what a poor creature he was

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I don't want your love unless you know I am repulsive, and love me even as you know it.

But I fancy I rather more sense than you give me credit for and also my dear I know you a trifle better than you do yourself. You will tell me that I am impertinent but so it is, little though you may think it.

My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked.

I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.

I got teased and taunted about my night-shaded skin, and my one prayer to God, the miracle worker, was that I would wake up lighter-skinned. The morning would come, and I would be so excited about seeing my new skin that I would refuse to look down at myself until I was in front of a mirror because I wanted to see my fair face first.

I've never seen myself as a spokesperson. I've always seen myself as a worker and am very grateful for the trust that my own people have given me over the years.

You can see from the curves that I'm not working out - it's just jelly!