J. K. Rowling Quotes

You see 'awesome' and I see 'lost.' It's very easy to lose touch with reality when you've got that many people thinking you are more than you really are.

Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing

Every article I've read about myself always winds up concluding that I am not, in fact, completely stupid.

I'm a very, very handsome man, and have had to come to terms with it... um, do I like the way I look? In the right light, and with a following wind.

My bottom is so big it's got its own gravitational field.

I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.

Each community has a curious and distorted image of itself which is always flattering.

For people at the bottom who are really doing badly — those in the bottom 10th or 15th percentile — they think their work falls in the 60th or 55th percentile, so, above average. People at the bottom still think they're outperforming other people.

People create the sort of myths they want to believe about themselves.

Really, the combination of the scabs and the ointment looks hideous. I can't help enjoying his distress. "Poor Finnick. Is this the first time in your life you haven't looked pretty?" I say. "It must be. The sensation's completely new. How have you managed it all these years?" he asks. "Just avoid mirrors. You'll forget about it," I say. "Not if I keep looking at you," he says.

Sometimes I think I'm a really interesting guy.

I don’t mind looking like I need a good wash and a good meal... Any actor who starts taking ‘sex symbol’ seriously or thinks of themselves as a sex symbol has got some serious problems.

I do know that we have delusions about ourselves in what we sound like.

None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.

Every one at the bottom of his heart cherishes vanity; even the toad thinks himself good-looking,--"rather tawny perhaps, but look at his eye!

What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common.

I have caught my reflection and thought, 'Oof. That girl is struggling. That girl is tired.' I've had mornings where I'm like, 'Oh God, I have weird hair.'

People accuse me of being arrogant all the time. I'm not arrogant, I'm focused.

I'm not really that bothered by appearance. I know a few players who go off doing stuff in the mirror ages before they go out to play a game, but I'm not really interested in that.

There's no such thing as identity: it's something we have to believe in to make life more tolerable.

You're dumber than you think I think you are.

My centre of who I thought I was was never very consciously about being beautiful or attractive - I think I'm one of those people who's actually grown into their looks.

I think a lot of the time you just parody yourself.

I know people who go back and check themselves, but it drives me crazy. Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that's just not the case.