Scott Westerfeld Quotes

I always felt second best. I was never the prettiest, never the skinniest, never the fastest in my sports. Never the smartest, because I have dyslexia. Then, all of a sudden, people were like, 'You're gorgeous.' And I was like, 'What?'

I grew up not worrying about my looks.

I think growing up, you just deal with 'I'm ugly,' or 'I don't look right,' or 'my hair is wrong,' and it's such a distraction from what can really elevate you.

I was never raised to think that I was pretty. It's not that I was raised to think I was unattractive, but it was just never something that was pointed out to me by my family. They would point out personality traits — 'our daughter is really quirky' — versus what I look like, because inevitably, looks go, so it makes no difference.

If I asked you, "Do you think you're beautiful?" everyone should say yes.

Men and women alike, if you think that altering the tip of your nose with surgery will make you happier, I would suggest you alter something much more malleable than your flesh, like your priorities, or your friends.

I don't want women to hold themselves back. I think there are too many women who are self-conscious about the way they look - the way they see themselves in the mirror.

People still tell me I’m fat, but when I look in the mirror, that’s not what I see.

A person's self-esteem has nothing to do with how she looks.

I'm happy with the way I look but I'm not Hollywood beautiful.

I was always handsome under all the fat.

Girls pour their insecurities into their looks.

It's always difficult to see yourself as other people do, but I'm realistic about my appearance. I wasn't born with one of those pretty, pretty faces, so I've never been absorbed with the way I look. I just try to make the most of what I've got.

I didn't grow up beautiful.

I never saw myself as beautiful. I can look back and see it now, but then? Never.

I care about being formally physically attractive in my life, and I think that I am quite vain about my performance. I'm just not vain about how I look while I give the performance.

I'm not like a gorgeous bombshell or anything like that.

For me, it's about not being too aware of what you look like because if you are, you're trying too hard and I don't think that actually makes you look good... I've known from very early on that I don't look perfect.

My centre of who I thought I was was never very consciously about being beautiful or attractive - I think I'm one of those people who's actually grown into their looks.

It's no one's fault to be born ugly, but, honestly, must it be worn as a symbol of pride?

No, I never ever considered myself attractive.

I knew I had a great figure, but I never regarded myself as beautiful.

I didn't think of myself as beautiful, but, in retrospect, I guess I was.

I don't have the fear of my looks changing.

I changed my thinking on the whole subject of what it is to be attractive. It's fine, but I know that ultimately what I am and who I am is not cheekbones and a jawline, if you catch my drift. I ultimately know that who I am is not directly proportional to abs or straight teeth.