Waris Dirie Quotes

I don't really see myself as a big supermodel.

I'm certainly not a supermodel.

Some actors don't mind it. Those who are pretty. They think it's nice to be looked at because they are nice to look at. I appreciate that. I'm very happy to salute that aspiration. But I don't like the way I look so I don't like being photographed. I become defensive.

Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it's really hard to have full control of your character.

There's not one person that I say I want to look like.

Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.

I'm cool with the way I look, I'm not an ugly dog, but I don't see myself as a stud or anything.

I told my mom, 'I'm not buying another magazine until I can get past this thought of looking like the girl on the cover'. She said, "Miley, you are the girl on the cover,' and I was, like, 'I know, but I don't feel like that girl every day.' You can't always feel perfect.

When I got my headshots done, there was this woman screaming at me to blow my lips out. She kept saying, 'You want to be like Scarlett Johansson, don't you?' In the shot, my eyes are popping out; I look terrified. I realised I'd rather not get a job than go through pain to be something I'm not.

I never thought I was the most beautiful model out there or the most sexy woman, but I was a hard worker.

You should take some responsibility for the way you present yourself. But you should not be hung up on your looks, whether you are ugly or handsome, because it isn't an achievement.

I like having my picture taken and being a glamorous person. Sometimes when I find myself getting impatient, I just remember the times I cried my eyes out because nobody wanted to take my picture at the Trocadero.

I'm quite confident, but I don't fancy myself. I don't really care about how I look.

There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.

Listen: I'm OK cute. I'm no stunner.

If you're not happy about how you look, you have to question how much self-love you have.

I don't get self-conscious. I'm not vain in that way.

I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.

But as a young model, I never felt as beautiful as I looked.

I used to think I was ugly. I thought I looked like a camel. A person who doesn't love themselves, they will see anything that pops up on their face. I've seen squirrels, I've seen a bird, and I've seen all kinds of animals on my face. But that is the result of self-hate. I've learned to say: 'You know what? I am a beautiful black woman'.

I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.

I think it's good that people value their bodies and take care of them. I think if you cross the line and begin using your body as an asset or as an extension of your vanity, you've gone too far.

Modeling and pageants help me overcome feeling insecure about the way that I look and my height.

I feel I'm such a big part of that insecurity that some girls might have because of my job, that girls think they have to be that picture. And even boys, they think that that picture exists, and it's so frustrating because I don't look like that picture - I wake up not looking like that picture.

My detractors, who delight in using my name as a byword for unattractiveness, will find it hard to believe, but looking in the mirror is a pleasant experience.