Scarlett Moffatt Quotes

If you want to do what you want to do, you have to look a certain way.

I am who I am. I have a low voice, and I look like somebody's dad or boss or a police chief, and those roles come my way.

I noticed that I got a better space in the line in Starbucks when I had my tattoo. People associate tattoos with a certain edge. Then I open my mouth, and something completely different comes out.

When you're not blond and thin, you come up with a personality real quick.

I find the whole concept of being 'sexy' embarrassing and confusing. If I do a photo-shoot, people desperately want to change me - dye my hair blonder, pluck my eyebrows, give me a fringe. Then there's the choice of clothes. I know everyone wants a picture of me in a mini-skirt. But that's not me.

My hair was always frizzy. I always wanted to be blonde with lovely straight hair. I was very skinny. I was quite tomboyish, just very quiet. I always wanted to fit in; I just couldn't.

Just like any other girl, I felt pressure to look a certain way. Act a certain way.

'Nimona' is about identity and if who you are is defined by what you look like. It's not a book about body image at all, but I would be lying if I said that wasn't in there even at the conception of it.

The pressure of looking a certain way and having to present yourself a certain way is hard. It's difficult to feel genuine about yourself when you feel the pressure of being a certain person.

The problem with all these fiercely individualistic girls was that they were all exactly the same.

Whether at work, at home or in public, we have been trained to believe that who we are at the core of our being is often unacceptable. As a result, we work diligently to live up to - and sometimes down to - what others have made us out to be, whether or not it is an accurate reflection of who we are.

Looking good has never been the most important thing to me. Maybe it's because I'm more conventionally, um, acceptable, so it's not an issue for me. I don't know.

It's been helpful to have so many opportunities to look different so people stop pigeonholing you.

We're all just trying to fit in and find ourselves, particularly when we're growing up.

I'm never satisfied with the way I look.

Here I am, this smart, bookish girl, and I have this biker-chick name.

A lot of people have said that I'm trying to be like Justin Bieber by wearing a hat all the time. But the truth is, I don't like the way my hair looks. It's kind of weird, so I wear a hat all the time to cover it. I've been doing it since I was thirteen.

In real life, I'm not super-posh but if that's the stereotype, I really don't care. It could be worse.

I don't like myself without a beard.

And I was victim to that very early in my career, where I would go into auditions, and I'd be wearing a big T shirt, a big baggy T shirt and loose jeans. You know, to try and show people that there was more to me than just that.

For a really long time in my life, I fought against how I look. Because I was raised Catholic in school, where everyone had to wear a suit and tie. I hated everything that stood for. And I realized when I walked down the street, everyone would see the guy I hated and not the guy I was.

I'm such a girly-girl! I don't know why people don't see that.

I really do believe that my style is informed by the fact that I had such issues with my appearance at various times of my life.

It's dangerous to get too far from what they identify you with.

My appearance has changed a lot over the years, but it has far more to do with how I feel about being a woman.