Dick Cavett Quotes

We have fallen in love with the body. That's that thing that looks back at us from the mirror. That's the repository of that lovely identity that you keep chasing all your life.

I have no issues with my identity.

It'd be really nice to wake up looking like, I don't know, Jake Gyllenhaal and think, 'Let's try this on for a day and see how it feels.'

I think that as soon as you think of yourself as a famous person or anything like that, you're objectifying yourself in some weird way.

The actor has a constant problem of personal identity.

I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.

I'm an outgoing girl, and I can't help the way I look.

I have been a big guy all my life, I am not going to lose a bunch of weight, because then you're like that weird fat person that got skinny but still has a big head. I don't want to do that. So I'm just trying.

As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.

I don't see myself as angry, although other people see that. I just see myself as a short, dumpy guy with bad feet, and I'm passionate.

With a fractured sense of self, we come to depend on what people feed back to us - often mediated through social networks - not what we are. We have complex identities but may become less able to act as a subject - confident in what we really are.

Why is it so weird that somebody didn't recognize me?... The fact is that whenever I meet somebody, I say, 'Nice to meet you. I'm Julia.'

I think sometimes I intimidate people. I've been told that. But I feel I'm the least intimidating person possible.

When someone says to you, 'Oh, I don't take a good picture,' what they mean is they haven't come to terms with how they look. They take a fine picture, it's just that their image of how they think they look is not in touch with the reality.

It's always difficult to see yourself as other people do, but I'm realistic about my appearance. I wasn't born with one of those pretty, pretty faces, so I've never been absorbed with the way I look. I just try to make the most of what I've got.

People think I have an interesting walk. Hell, I'm just trying to hold my gut in.

I really wasn't heavy in high school. But no one feels right in their own skin, particularly in high school.

I still don't look like what I think I look like.

I see myself on the cover of a magazine and I don't think that it looks like me at all. My first-ever photo shoot was for the cover of a lads' magazine.

I love it, but it's not important to me to always be thought of as sexy. I like it when it doesn't limit my career. It's a part of my life, but on a secondary plane.

No-one has ever called me a cool dude. I'm somewhere between geek and normal.

I don't want to become known as just a body.

I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

How you define yourself is a major issue for young people and adults alike.

I don't think anyone is the perfect one to play me.