Zozibini Tunzi Quotes

I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.

I'm not that good looking.

I'm not a great beauty. That's not me.

I don't have the confidence to be a personality.

I was never an ambitious girl, or even a self-confident one. I never went in for beauty pageants or wore a stitch of make-up until I went to Los Angeles.

Why in the world would anyone want to photograph an old woman like me?

I must be very clear in one thing... Being a pageant girl is not who I am or what defines me.

I told my mom, 'I'm not buying another magazine until I can get past this thought of looking like the girl on the cover'. She said, "Miley, you are the girl on the cover,' and I was, like, 'I know, but I don't feel like that girl every day.' You can't always feel perfect.

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.'

Why am I a star? It can't be because of looks.

I think I think I am Superwoman sometimes but I am not.

I didn't quite believe I was pretty for a long time. I never thought about it.

I don't think what I look like is relevant.

I'm not as beautiful as a model.

I'm not a beautiful person and I never have been.

Girls pour their insecurities into their looks.

I've always had a complex about being taken seriously.

The only thing that matters is to have charm and expression. Then comes that horrible gnawing doubt of our own magnetism. Is it possible that, though we are not lovely, we are not irresistible either? That we will have to go through life belonging neither to the triumphantly beautiful nor to the triumphantly ugly?

I think that for me as a person, it's very easy for me to hear, 'It's too difficult.' Or, 'You're not easy to cast.' And, 'You're not beautiful,' and this and that.

I was over-confident while growing up. I think when you look a certain way, you try and compensate by something else. I was always a strong child, was always confident, but looks never mattered to me.

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

I didn't consider myself to be pretty, not at all.

I've had some people tell me they're glad I'm a normal girl. Of course I'm a normal girl!

Nobody walks this earth thinking he's better than I think I am - I think I'm great. At the same time, it's so obvious to me that I'm nobody.

I always wondered if I was supposed to be excellent at something or not. I think, because of that, I have a lot of insecurities about myself.