Adwoa Aboah Quotes

I'm not a beautiful person and I never have been.

Oh God, I don't know if I ever really felt beautiful. I don't, really.

I was raised to treat my body as a temple, but even as a little girl, I had a major issue with self-esteem. I thought there was something wrong with the temple.

When people say 'You're so beautiful' it makes me want to kill myself! As an actress you want to be seen for what you do, for the characters you can play, otherwise I'd be a model.

You don't need people to tell you how beautiful you are on there.

A person's self-esteem has nothing to do with how she looks.

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

The thing is that I never felt beautiful. I really never did. I think I can change my looks and be different things, but I've never thought of myself as this face.

I don't care if I'm beautiful; I don't care what I am on the outside. It isn't about the outside.

Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.

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.

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

I wasn't a cheerleader or the prom queen. I don't move through the world with a mirror in front of my face, and I've never been attracted to projects that had an emphasis on what I look like.

I hated the reflection in the mirror. I wanted so much to be someone else... I thought that if I was thinner, the rest of my life would change.

Beauty was never really my trip. Maybe those roles are attracted to me?

I gave up on my looks a long time ago.

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 don't want to have to be pretty. I don't want to have to be adorable.

When girls feel bad about their looks, 60 percent avoid normal daily activities like raising their hand in class or even going to the doctor. That means that girls do not show up for life when they don't feel good enough or pretty enough. A role model can help girls see beauty as a source of confidence, not anxiety.

Some people say I'm not a very pretty woman, but I'm a very beautiful woman inside.

I'm ugly.

You can wax on so much about your figure and your skin and your face and all of those really important, and I'm all about skin and keeping it healthy, but if you don't have confidence, none of it matters.

I always felt second best. I was never the prettiest, never the skinniest, never the fastest in my sports. Never the smartest, because I have dyslexia. Then, all of a sudden, people were like, 'You're gorgeous.' And I was like, 'What?'

What you look like doesn't matter as much as what you feel like. If you feel you look good, you look good. And I never felt that.

I have to look at myself in the mirror and tell myself that I'm beautiful, even if I don't necessarily believe it.