Geena Davis Quotes

I don't like myself. I'm not vain at all. I hate looking at myself - I always think I look ugly. Honest.

If I were to search for the central core of difficulty in people as I have come to know them, it is that in the great majority of cases they despise themselves, regarding themselves as worthless and unlovable.

When I look in the mirror, I know I’m looking at someone who isn’t sure she deserves to be loved at all.

I never felt good enough about myself. I could be better at this, I could be better at that. I could look better. My work could be better. That whole idea that you're going to get caught, you're going to be found out as a fraud. That's one of those reasons I got up at 2:30 in the morning.

I always thought everybody else was better than me.

I often think you bring unhappiness on yourself, because if you don't like yourself very much, you allow yourself to be influenced by people who reinforce that.

Realize that everyone that you think is perfect feels like they're not good enough, too.

Feeling 'ugly' or 'unattractive' seeps into your life like poison, and it affects everything. Feeling worthless does the same. We internalise these limitations, and it takes an internal revolution to get rid of them.

So many people can tell me, 'You're amazing,' rather, but I don't think it. You know, so, I don't go around thinking this. I'm really hard on myself. I think that's quite good.

I never give myself enough credit.

I feel like I'm the worst, so I always act like I'm the best.

I don't like my voice. I don't like the way I look. I don't like the way I move. I don't like the way I act. I mean, period. So, you know, I don't like myself.

I can never tell what I'm doing when I'm in the middle of publication because I have no confidence. I have terrible self-esteem, along with boundless narcissism.

Mirabelle is not affected by a man’s failures to approach her, as her own self-depreciating attitude never allows the idea that he would in the first place.

I am deebly self-conscious, and bad.

I am not loved. I am not a beautiful soul. I am not a good-natured, giving person. I am not anybody's savior.

I never like the way I look. I don't. I never look at myself.

Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it's unbelievable!

My whole life, I've felt like I didn't quite measure up.

I'm never satisfied with the way I look.

I am not too keen on my nose, I don't like my knees, I hate my ankles, I am unsure about my behind, I don't like my legs at all. I am not too sure about my chin, my forehead is a bit dodgy. But, overall, I can live with it.

I was never my favourite subject.

Most actors on most days don't think they're worthy.

We have no faith in ourselves. I have never met a woman who, deep down in her core, really believes she has great legs. And if she suspects that she might have great legs, then she's convinced that she has a shrill voice and no neck.

If I'm honest I don't think the world would miss me if I never acted again.