I can’t stand to see myself on television.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.

I am odd-looking. I sometimes think I look like a funny Muppet.

I’m super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I’m critical of other people, too – I try not to be, though.

Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life.

I don’t mind making jokes, but I don’t want to look like one.

I’m not concerned with people seeing me in a certain way. Some people see me as a kid, some people see me as an adult. But I’m seriously not going to complain how anybody sees me, as long as they see me.

I’m my own worst critic, and if I don’t pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won’t be a happy girl.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something’s not good enough, and I won’t stop until I feel like I’ve made it. I’m never satisfied.

I like to be in control of how I look and how I feel and how I act.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

I was everything an R&B singer wasn’t. I wasn’t in shape. I wasn’t a pretty boy.

In the beginning, I was very insecure. I hated how I looked in pictures.

I’m very picky; I’m never happy with anything. It’s so hard to give the record away and accept that you’re done.

I don’t know if I ever feel totally great about a record when I put it out. With every record that I put out, someone has literally got to come pry it from me because when I listen to my own music, I just hear flaws in it.

I’d like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

I’m fat, but I’m thin inside… there’s a thin man inside every fat man.

Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way – pouty.

I wouldn’t put myself forward to do a film like ‚Changeling‘ if I thought I couldn’t pull people into a story because of all the other ways people see me.

It’s easy to become very self-critical when you’re an actor. Then you get critiqued by the critics. Whether you agree with them or not, people are passing judgment on you.

I always hated how I looked on camera. I never put a face to my music, which actually made the music that much more mysterious.

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

I didn’t like the way I looked in pictures – when I saw myself on a digital camera, I was like, ‚Eesh.‘

I don’t believe in doing things to manufacture my body to appeal to what I think people might like.

Yes, some people say to me you’re too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.

There are times when you throw an interception and you’re beating yourself up.

Some people would like me to be round again.

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.

Every night on the court I give my all, and if I’m not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.

You have to just accept your body. You may not love it all the way, but you just have to be comfortable with it, comfortable with knowing that that’s your body.

If I spent all my time criticising myself, I wouldn’t be able to function. There are actors who theorise till the cows come home. I haven’t the patience for them. It’s maybe shallow, but that’s why I’ll never be part of the acting set.

My fat never made me less money.

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

I know I’m a good professional, I know that no one’s harder on me than myself and that’s never going to change, under any circumstances.

I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

I don’t want people to think of me as sexy.

I did the Ed Sullivan show four times. I did the Steve Allen show. I did the Jackie Gleason show.

I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of ‚star‘ and I didn’t particularly want to be portrayed as one.

At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.

Don’t believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.

I never thought I’d land in pictures with a face like mine.

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face. You know, I prayed about it a long, long, long, long, long time, because there again, I wouldn’t want to do anything that I felt was going to be offensive to God.

Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‚I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.‘ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.