Ivy Compton-Burnett Quotes

Mostly, nothing's really changed. I'm still the dorky nerd that I always was.

I like to look nice, but I'm not marketing being beautiful.

As Mark Weiner puts it, whether you gain 50 pounds or lose 50 pounds, whether you have a sex change operation for that matter, that it doesn't matter, that there is some part of ourselves that we cannot escape.

The clothes are not making me... If I like it, that's all that matters...It's not about the clothes. It's about how I am as a person and how confident I am.

I feel like all my faults go into making the person that I am. I like myself as a person. And I think taking any fault away would change who I am as a person.

There's not one person that I say I want to look like.

It delights me that I don't fit the stereotype of an actress.

I'm like, 'Yeah, I could afford braces, but why should I change myself to be what everybody else wants me to be when I'm OK with who I am and I'm happy with who I am?'

I'm not that beautiful, and I don't want to be a pop star.

The thing that I like about being me is that everybody gets a different feeling from me.

Scarcely anyone ever wants to be anybody else. However handicapped or unhappy he feels himself, he would not change places with other more fortunate mortals.

Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't know me, I think they do themself an injustice. Because, as a whole, I think I'm a good person.

I don't really care what other people see me as. I seriously don't. I've always worried about what my opinion of myself is. And I've always thought that it carries most weight. So I don't care what other people's opinion of me is or how they view whatever I've said or done.

I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.

You don't have to look like George Clooney. You just have to know yourself.

I've never concerned myself with the labels people want to put on you. What matters to me is my own estimation.

I can't control what people think. They know who I am.

My beauty icons are women whose images are self-created.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

I am definitely not like the hottest young actress, the most beautiful or whatever. I have my own thing going.

I couldn't change who I am; I couldn't change the kind of player I am.

I do not think I reinvent myself. Wearing my hair differently or changing my style of dress is playing dress-up. I don't take it too seriously.

I just want people to see that I do my own stuff, that I'm not stupid, and I can make fun of myself.

If people see me in some sort of niche, then that's fine. As long as it's not The Naked Guy, I don't care.

I've always been very conscious of who I am.