I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

I didn’t think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I’m not put together like the other chaps.

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.

It’s very inexpensive to give a compliment.

I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn’t identify with the person on the screen. I couldn’t get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else.

Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy.

I don’t think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little.

I was called ‚Dumbo,‘ like the elephant, as a child because I couldn’t understand things at school.

I’m considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I’ve never been bored in my life.

I wasn’t a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know.

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

What has happened at Guantanamo Bay… does not represent the will of the American people. I’m embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They’re no good at all.

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

When I am talking to people who I feel don’t like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.

You tend to feel very hurt when people attack you and feel indifferent when you get praise. You think, ‚Of course they like it. They should like it.‘

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

I do not see myself as a celebrity or an icon or things like that… I have not really done anything.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

I was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point.

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

I hate being called an ‚icon.‘ I just don’t like it. That’s all there is to it.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

I never wanted to perform and never proclaimed myself to be a performer.

I’m odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet.

Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy.

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

Funk, I don’t think I have anything to do with funk. I’ve never considered myself funky.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn’t make me feel good at all.

There was a point where I really felt I had ‚penniless divorcee lone parent‘ tattooed on my head.

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

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don’t doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.

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

I don’t think a lot of people know personally who I am.

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

I was never a boy magnet at school. There was always the girl all the guys liked and wanted to date, but it was never me.

Sadly, I do my homework. I’ve a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan. I read the Meltzer report, and then I’ll read C. Fred Bergsten’s defense of institutions like the World Bank and the I.M.F. It’s embarrassing to admit.

No one knows Anne’s better side, and that’s why most people can’t stand me. Oh, I can be an amusing clown for an afternoon, but after that, everyone’s had enough of me to last a month.

I don’t dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don’t know, people’s perceptions of me. I truly don’t.

Everybody wants to be me. What can I say?

I used to have nightmares that they would put ‚He played Ted‘ on my tombstone.

When someone bestows something on you, no matter how true it is, when someone says, ‚Sexiest Man Alive,‘ I’m honestly going, ‚Thank you. Right on.‘ For me, it’s never canceled out anything, it’s never made me go, ‚Does this make me less talented of an actor?‘

I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don’t know how to manage it.

Well, I’m in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

Before I look stupid and not know what a word means or how to pronounce it, I’ll stop the whole production: ‚Hey, real quick, guys. Define this word for me. Somebody.‘

People should make up their own mind about what they think of me.

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

We have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today.

Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

A fit body gives you confidence. And there’s nothing more impressive than a great attitude, which you can wear on your sleeve. But you’ll have to remember the difference between being rude and being confident.

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‚That person I see is a savage monster;‘ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.

The passive aggressive arguer comes armed with tricky tactics. They cannot take the risk that they might be wrong: their self-esteem is too intertwined with their opinions. It is more important to affirm their rightness, and sense of superiority, than to arrive at the truth.