Todd Solondz Quotes

I have no issues with my identity.

Yet I've discovered that how I look is not a function of anything as ephemeral as my hair.

These days, I feel like a chunky spy in a thinner world. Strangers tell fat jokes in front of me. Jokes not meant for me. But... completely for the woman I used to be 150 pounds ago. The woman I could be again one day. The woman I will always be inside. Because being thinner doesn't make you a different person. It just makes you thinner.

When someone tells me that I'm not real, I say to them, 'Well, what about me isn't real?' I have not changed my figure. This is who I am.

What you look like has nothing to do with what you think about yourself.

That's the biggest thing to separate - your body from your self worth.

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

'Nappy' is a state of mind, not an appearance.

Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.

I don't know what it is about me, but I don't think of myself as sexy; I never have.

If you have to change something about you to be in a part, I don't think it's easy to do. You should just pick the part where you can just be yourself.

Lots of us when we're children believe 'oh well, if the world knew us as we really are, they'd know what wonderful, clever, brilliant, charming people we really are.'

At some point, the pride has to be a part of the whole day-to-day oeuvre. It's part of who you are and doesn't need to be discussed anymore.

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

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.

I couldn't work my way into being a good-looking guy.

In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be.

I don't think I ever feel sexy. I don't think that's for me to decide, if I'm sexy or not.

My face has always been my fortune anyway, not my body.

I like my old nose. If I could get it out the cupboard and put it on, then I would.

There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.

I feel very confident with the way I look. But I felt just as confident the way I looked before. I've always been confident with who I am.

I feel like when people judge me they're not judging me, because they don't know who I am.