Ken Loach Quotes

I avoid looking in the mirror.

I never like photos of myself in the beginning. I live with them for three months, put them in a drawer, take them out and look again. I hate the way I look, but of course it's really not that bad.

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 do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection.

I find mirrors detestable; I dislike seeing myself. Of course, there's a mirror in the bathroom, but it's a magnifying one for shaving. Photographs are fine, but I don't like mirrors because they take you by surprise.

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

I think I'm a decent-looking guy. Sometimes I can look great, and other times I look horrifying.

When you look in the mirror, your 'appearance,' that outer you, is what you see first.

I spend so much time in front of mirrors as part of my job that I try to avoid them outside work.

If someone was like, 'Describe yourself in one word,' I would never say, 'Handsome.'

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

I wish I was always photogenic.

I do not Google myself, I do not read comments, and I barely look myself in the eye when I look in the mirror.

If you look in the mirror and don't like what you see, you can find out first hand what it's like to be me.

I think I'm still, in many ways, a terribly self-conscious person. I'd probably be shooting and think, "Well, how does my hair look?"

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.

You look in the mirror, but you don't see what you actually look like.

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 never like seeing myself on screen.

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

It's funny, one of the reasons why I never wear my glasses any more is that, when I was younger, a guy once said that he liked me until he found out that I wear glasses.

I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.

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

People think I'm goofy. I don't have that Angelina Jolie air to me. I wish that I did, and that's an insecurity of mine.

Some actors don't mind it. Those who are pretty. They think it's nice to be looked at because they are nice to look at. I appreciate that. I'm very happy to salute that aspiration. But I don't like the way I look so I don't like being photographed. I become defensive.