Kangna Ranaut Quotes

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

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.

For some reason, I struggle seeing myself as a leading man.

I felt like when I took my weave out, I wasn't pretty, I wasn't noticeable.

It was better to be known as the kid who could draw than as the short kid.

Go out and face the world secure in the knowledge that everybody else thinks they are better looking than they are as well.

Even though I felt, at times, 'My goodness, you're among the upper echelon,' there is still a huge void there. A huge void. It is about self-esteem. That's a thing that has always been a real complex part of my life.

I'm basically a professional nerd, and I'm still not cool. I'm around people who are cool sometimes, and I know I'm not them. But that's OK; I don't care.

Comparison is painful. Don't be cowed by other people's pretty pictures. When you feel unimpressive, or irrelevant, that has nothing to do with what you're actually capable of.

I'm not cute.

I can't help feeling that I am not a very important person, and being treated like one gives me strange feelings.

I'm not image-obsessed.

I think that there are a lot of reasons to be insecure as an actress... But I don’t really have a perception issue. I’ve been pretty good about being who I am in the public’s eye.

I have an inferiority complex, but it’s not a very good one.

I have that need in me, I want everyone to love me, but I'm embarrassed by that need, so I wanted to cover it up in my persona. I felt like I wouldn't be able to do stand-up for a career if I was needy. I didn't want to be complaining or whining onstage. I wanted to be cool and do exactly what I wanted to do. That way I would never have to change for anybody.

He had an opinion of himself, I think, that was too high for his own good. Or maybe it was the reverse. Maybe it was a low opinion that he kept trying to erase.

I am not someone who throws around the word 'self-esteem.' It is a fictional description.

I'm not worried any more about changing people's view of me.

Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they ought.

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

I didn't think of myself as a tart, but I wouldn't argue with anyone who did.

I don't always understand my worth.

I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.

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

Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.