Shanina Shaik Quotes

The advantage of age is that you swap youth for wisdom. You're so full of insecurities when you're young. 'Who am I? What do I have to do for people to like me?' You get caught up in things. You get very emotional about things.

I'm 23; I feel older than that, but I feel comfortable. I'm assured of myself, and it's not a problem.

I'm blessed with being quite secure - not necessarily about my looks, but if someone says, 'I don't like what you're wearing,' I am never going to go and cry about it. I think that does come with age, though.

I remember when I was starting out as a young actress, thinking, 'Oh my God, I have the fattest face.' Now I look at those pictures and I think, 'So much collagen!'

I wish my 15-year-old self had known about my allure to the opposite sex!

I always thought my jaw line was manly. I have this pockmark on my chin from when I was 9. I used to get freaked out about it because people thought it was a pimple. But those are the things I've become really comfortable with as I've gotten older. My scars.

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

I completely think of myself as sexual. Completely and utterly. Probably more so than I did when I was 30. I don't know why. I'm very comfortable with how I look. I'm absolutely committed to never having anything done to my face. I would never let anyone near me with a Botox needle.

To be a good model, I'd need a lot more confidence... and more confidence to be more bare.

My habit would have been to veer towards the dark - to prove I was something; edgy, or maybe to prove that I was cognisant of the dark side. Now, with age and confidence, I can say, yeah, that's true, but I am cognisant of the fact that people can do things well. And can be more loving than you expect.

I think kids growing up, if they were picked on and feeling inferior at 12, they're going to feel that way at 72. You just deal with it better. I'm serious.

There is so much pressure to be thin, and you constantly compare yourself to others. But confidence is something that comes with age and experience - it has to be earned along the way.

I'm really quite happy to say that in my early 40s, I wake up feeling sexy, and I can't say I felt that way in my late 20s.

As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.

When I was 13, I looked like I could play 16, and I wasn't mature enough to play 16.

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.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.

Everybody has an inferiority complex when they step into a room. But then when you have children and you get older, it doesn't really matter. When I was young I had so many inferiority complexes. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't go to university. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't train.

Turning 50 changed me and I'm far more accepting of myself. I'm not thin, but I am a size 10. I go in at the middle and very much out at the bottom and top. And now I think, 'Well, that's how I am.'

The good thing about getting older is that, as you become less attractive, so you have less desire to go out and conquer everyone you see.

As I've got older, I feel more confident in my body, so wouldn't want to tamper with it.

The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.

I wish I was 100 percent confident in my own skin. It's always a process, but getting older, I've become more confident.

I'd never want to go back to being in my twenties or thirties. I was lost and confused and uncomfortable in my own skin.

The truth was I felt ugly growing up. I only really started feeling comfortable in myself when I was 40.