Victor LaValle Quotes

I didn't feel very attractive as a child and actually I wasn't.

I'm walking insecurity. Without all this makeup, I look like a refugee when I get up in the morning.... I generally look like one major bowwow. I mean arf.

Women don't like men who know they're good looking. They'd much prefer a man who doesn't know he's good looking.

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it's not like I am hopeless.

I was never a good-looking bloke. Not by a long chalk.

I think comedy comes more from a low sense of self-esteem, and I certainly have that.

But I always like to play ugly people who think they're pretty.

When I look down at my pale, skinny body, I wonder why any woman would want to sleep next to it, let alone embrace it.

I have not taken my good looks seriously from the beginning. When I would be teased by my friends about my looks, I would just make a self-deprecating remark and let it pass.

The thing is that I never felt beautiful. I really never did. I think I can change my looks and be different things, but I've never thought of myself as this face.

Well, I'm clearly not ugly.

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

Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.

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.

For a long time, I did feel aware that I wasn't pretty or bubbly enough. Nor was I sexy-looking.

I am an unconventional beauty. I grew up in a high school where if you didn't have a nose job and money and if you weren't thin, you weren't cool, popular, beautiful. I was always told that I wasn't pretty enough to be on television.

People think I have an interesting walk. Hell, I'm just trying to hold my gut in.

Good-looking people turn me off. Myself included.

I've lived with myself for a very long time, so I'm aware of what I look like. I'm under no false pretense that I'm a stunner, so if somebody comes up and says something about my physical appearance, it's okay.

There are certainly a billion, ker-trillion girls out there more attractive than I am.

I didn't grow up beautiful.

I never thought I was cute, ever.

I know I wasn't as handsome as some other guys, but I was OK with that.

I don't think I'm beautiful. I just think I can scrub up OK.

I gave up on my looks a long time ago.