Juan Antonio Bayona Quotes

I started to like my voice - the sound of it. So then I started to listen to it as something separate. To me, it sounded good that way as well.

It's really important to talk to yourself and look at yourself in the mirror and love who you are.

It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.

Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Some people are more fluid than others at just being themselves and recognizing what's good about themselves.

By taking the time to stop and appreciate who you are and what you've achieved - and perhaps learned through a few mistakes, stumbles and losses - you actually can enhance everything about you. Self-acknowledgment and appreciation are what give you the insights and awareness to move forward toward higher goals and accomplishments.

Of course I have bad hair days; I'm human.

When someone says to you, 'Oh, I don't take a good picture,' what they mean is they haven't come to terms with how they look. They take a fine picture, it's just that their image of how they think they look is not in touch with the reality.

Self-esteem, the kind that comes from finding the sweet spot between a healthy fondness for yourself and healthy self-skepticism, tends to get harder to come by the older we get.

I look in the mirror, and I don't mind what I see.

There's nothing more, nothing better in life to wake up in the morning, look at yourself in the mirror, and feel comfortable with yourself and who you are.

I always feel like I'm so boring, but I don't get bored with me.

I don't look in the mirror and think that I have flaws. I actually look in the mirror and see me. I see a lot of different characters and a lot of different things.

Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered.

I'm not hard on myself - I brush those things off - but there are days when I'm pleased with myself, and days when I think I have elf ears.

This new thing about liking yourself, I find that absolutely appalling. Anyone who likes themselves, I just can't go too close to them. To me it's pure stupidity. But having some peace with yourself, that's quite a relief.

I think we all feel geeky at times, don't we? Isn't that all a part of the wonderful tapestry of life?

The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.

I try to remind myself of the things that I like about myself that make me who I am.

You want to feel, 'I know that character.'

Compared to other people, I am not that narcissistic. Sometimes, I don't even plan all that I wear.

I think I've finally, after 72 years, gotten used to my voice, and it sounds like a friend now instead of an enemy.

As I age, I become more and more happy with what I see in the mirror. At some point, that's going to stop.

I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness but I can't speak on their behalf.

I learned to love myself, because I sleep with myself every night and I wake up with myself every morning, and if I don't like myself, there's no reason to even live the life.