Nia Vardalos Quotes

Other than my sexuality, I am vulnerable regarding my physical appearance, as I am not what people considered ideal by most standards. For the entertainment business, I am not the body type of what is typically cast for television or movies.

I wasn't attractive when I was growing up, and I don't think I am now.

I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.

I'm not pretty. The truth is I didn't think I could be a model at all. I was looking at some of the guys on the walls at Irene Marie and I thought to myself 'Jesus Christ. I can't do this. I don't look anything like these guys'.

Girls pour their insecurities into their looks.

I really don't think I ever thought I could be a model. I was shorter than all of the models around and certainly rounder than anybody that I had ever seen in a magazine.

For a long time, I did feel aware that I wasn't pretty or bubbly enough. Nor was I sexy-looking.

I still have very normal insecurities, but I've always been made to feel like a body is a body, and it's not supposed to look like what you see in the media.

Like all girls, when I was growing up, I always worried about this bit of me being too fat or that bit. But I look back at pictures of me when I was young, and I was thin and gorgeous.

We see these cute, perfect bombshells that make me feel like I'm not good enough, I'm not pretty enough. I don't think I could pull off playing a person like that, and do I want to? I don't know.

When my editor sent me the first two images of Joker's daughter, I was struck by how confident she looked despite her boney appearance and horribly scarred face. So I starting thinking, how did Duela gain such confidence in a world that prizes beauty?

Listen: I'm OK cute. I'm no stunner.

I thought I was attractive when I shot 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding.' Studio executives and movie reviewers let me know I had a confidence in my looks that was not shared by them.

I'm not like a gorgeous bombshell or anything like that.

I don't think I have any bad features.

I have always been too round to do fashion shows.

No, I never ever considered myself attractive.

I know there are a lot of tall, beautiful actresses like Uma Thurman and Nicole Kidman who are my height, but they're still half the size of me!

I'm not too secure about my looks. They can always change.

I think my eyes are pretty, but I'm not sure with other parts.

There are girls who look stunning on screen. I don't think I look stunning, but I am working hard.

I am not an insecure person at heart, but I am also aware that I am not as good looking as an actress is expected to be.

Everybody knows that I'm not the most beautiful woman in the world.

When I first started doing screen work, I thought, 'I'm not beautiful enough for this profession - all the actresses I watch on screen are gorgeous and beautiful goddesses, but I'm just a scrawny, scruffy girl from southwest London.'

I never looked in the mirror and felt beautiful.