Gabourey Sidibe Quotes

I'm learning to embrace who I am and what I look like.

I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, 'Well you're never gonna be the prettiest girl in the room, so just don't even try.' I mean, I care about being pretty, but it's not my most valued thing.

I'm not a supermodel. I make the best of what I've got.

I contend that every woman has the right to feel beautiful, no matter how scrambled her features, or how indifferent her features.

I never thought I was pretty enough. I was kind of tall and lanky. I don't mind it now, but back in the day I hated it. I would tell myself that what I think is ugly at 17 is actually what's going to be pretty about me later.

My looks have changed, but I was never beautiful, so I'm not any less beautiful now.

I think that each woman, whatever age, needs to recognize something good in her body. Someone has beautiful legs, someone has beautiful hair, someone else has beautiful decolletage or a beautiful waist or beautiful hands. Everyone has something great.

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

Being proud of who we are as people is more important than cutting into ourselves to create this false idea of beauty.

For me, whatever age or size I've been, I have rather liked myself. The shell is not the thing at all.

When I meet young girls, I'm always like, 'Just do me one favour. Love what you look like right now - and remember I said it 10 years from now because it's the greatest gift I can give.'

I'm not an eye-candy kind of girl.

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

A woman has no need to be perfect or even beautiful to wear my dresses. The dress will do all that for her.

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

I don't want to be about the way I look - my body, my hair, my makeup, all those boring things.

My body is my best asset.

Now I feel and I say all the time that vanity is, like, long gone. I'm really free of worrying about what I look like, because it's out of my shaky hands. I don't control it. So why would I waste one second of my life worrying about it?

As long as you feel confident, you're going to look beautiful. You don't need to be a stick figure to be beautiful.

My curves are not crazy.

To go from hating the way I looked to being a 'Cosmo' centerfold is a profound honor.

I knew I had a great figure, but I never regarded myself as beautiful.

What we all learn is that beauty isn't a size 2. It's not a size 4. It's not a size 12. It's how you feel.

I feel that we all have missions and purposes in life. Part of mine is allowing women to feel beautiful in whatever they put on - or don't put on.

I feel like there's more to life then worrying about the way that you look.