Michel Faber Quotes

When we strip away the clothes, the jewelry, that's who we really are. I walk around naked in my house.

You can see into people's souls through their eyes.

It is very important to have connection with your soul and open your heart to people.

We have the real self and the false self, there's nothing wrong with them, and everyone has both of them.

Clothes are but a symbol of something hid deep beneath.

You look at me and see the girl,who lives inside the golden world,but don't believe, that's all there is to see,you'll never know the real me.

I did not know my soul until I saw it's reflection in your eyes.

Obviously, when I came to do the movie I knew that I was going to have to take my clothes off so I might have worked a little bit harder to keep myself fit. But I think that's the irony of it - you see all these fit and healthy people, and I'm not making any comments on it, but everybody deep down is a f**k up somewhere.

The real question is, can you love the real me? Not the perfect person you want me to be, not that image you had of me, but who I really am.

The secret is to have a sense of yourself, your real self, your unique self. And not just once in a while, or once a day, but all through the day, the week and life.

My boobs are fake, my hair's fake but what is real is my voice and my heart.

The human soul doesn't want to be fixed, it simply wants to be seen and heard. The soul is like a wild animal - tough, resilient and shy. When we go crashing through the woods shouting for it to come out so we can help it, the soul will stay in hiding. But if we are willing to sit quietly and wait for a while, the soul may show itself.

I've got to love the souls of people. Because I can't love every incarnation. To love their souls, I have to identify with my own soul.

I’d rather look chubby on screen and like a person in real life.

I always think clothes make you look fat, so I prefer to be naked.

What happens when you're naked is that people get that you're really just a human being. There are parts of it that are pretty appalling, and there are parts that are okay. That's what it looks like. If you can embrace and accept what people look like in the altogether, it's not so difficult to accept them with their clothes on.

All this knowledge of the objective world is of no value in comparison to having a little glimpse of the inner sky and its beauty - its sunrises and sunsets, its days and nights, its blue sky and its stars. The outer then looks only a pale reflection of the inner. The inner becomes more real and the outer becomes just a shadow.

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

No woman so naked as one you can see to be naked underneath her clothes.

My only real insecurities in high school were having such long legs and thick hair — things I’m so very grateful for now.

I don't really diet or anything. I'm miserable when I'm dieting and I like the way I look. I'm really sick of all these actresses looking like birds I'd rather look a little chubby on camera and look like a person in real life, than look great on screen and look like a scarecrow in real life.

Love opens the doors into everything, as far as I can see, including and perhaps most of all, the door into one's own secret, and often terrible and frightening, real self.

Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.

'Going home' is a journey to the heart of who we are, a place where we can be ourselves and welcome the reality of our beauty and our pain. From this acceptance of ourselves, we can accept others as they are and we can see our common humanity.

I looked in the mirror at my pigeon chest, I had to put my clothes on cause it made me depressed.