Melvyn Bragg Quotes

I don't think I look great. I only see flaws in myself on the small screen. I make an extra effort to look good.

Well, the real Eric Bogosian is pretty self-conscious of himself.

I am used to looking good. In a way, if I thought I looked like the back end of a bus, I probably wouldn't have done 'Strictly Come Dancing' and gone out there in public.

As an actress people always tease me like: if there's anything you can do to make yourself unattractive you will do it.

I purposefully did not want to watch anything I've done so far; I actually don't like looking at my face, so I don't like watching myself on the screen. It's an insecurity thing I have.

I don't like to read about myself, whether it be positive or negative.

I never like seeing myself on screen.

I don't know any people that like watching themselves. I prefer not to.

I've learned to suck in my stomach when photographers are around. I used to read gossip magazines all the time, but I stopped when I started being written about in them and read incredible lies about myself.

I don't like watching myself on TV, I don't like reading about myself.

I have my insecurities, and some days you don't want to be photographed. You notice all of your flaws even if others don't notice them. Photo shoots also feel very vain because it's all about you and your looks and your face. I feel I work better on camera.

I used to be very vain about my thumbs. I have fat thumbs. If there's a movie where you see me on the phone, it's not my hands.

I've worked with some people that just spent hours and hours and hours in the mirror, and just so much importance is based on that. And I do find that sad.

I worry how I look.

The pressure to look good is intense. It is hard to be immune to that and the self-consciousness that comes with it.

Since I was a little child, my nose - I think it's too big.

I hate to look at myself in a mirror, and I never go and see films.

I don't really like watching myself - it isn't necessarily one of my favourite things to do.

We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.

I don't like to look at myself in the mirror, which is why my eye makeup is always crooked.

I was never particularly fond of my voice.

I came across an older picture of me that someone had posted on Facebook, and I totally remember squirming and feeling very fat while I was shooting it.

When I watch myself on TV, it's impossible not to say, 'Is that really what my neck looks like?'

Normally I sit there in the films really hating watching myself. Loving watching the films, hating watching myself.

It's never enjoyable watching yourself. Because you're never as good looking as you hope you are. You're not expecting to be Penelope Cruz... but I'm a female of the species. I have my hang-ups and all of that.