self-image quotes

My fat never made me less money.

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

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

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

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.

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

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 can’t stand to see myself on television.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Some people would like me to be round again.