Felicity Huffman Quotes

I've had all types of beautiful girls tell me that they ugly when they look in the mirror, as if it's someone else's reflection they see.

I hated seeing myself on screen. I was full of complexes. I hated my face for a very, very long time.

I was muscular - I was never overweight. But tell a girl that she has to lose 15 pounds when she's not fat, and that has destroyed a lot of who I am over the years, even still. In my mind I'm thinking, 'I'm always too heavy. I should be a skinny thing.'

I feel like most actresses kind of have issues in body dysmorphia.

I hope I look skinnier in 3D. I hope I don't look three times as fat. That'll be disappointing.

Like virtually all of the women I know, I spent my teenage years battling with my body and feeling I wasn't good enough. A lot of that negativity is because I was pursuing a career in modeling and was told countless times that my body was too big. My hips and thighs were too wide.

The fact is, for years, I had been trapped in a certain narcissism and a desire to have a certain body and look sexy.

I'd kill myself if I was as fat as Marilyn Monroe.

My eyes are too big, my nose is too flat, my ears stick out, my mouth is too big and my face is too small... my body is thin as a clarinet and my ankles are so skinny that I wear two pairs of bobby socks because I don't want people to see how thin they are.

When I first went to visit different agencies in New York, a lot of them were like, 'You have to lose a lot of weight.'

I'm never satisfied with the way I look.

I'm not going to lie: I still have days when I walk by the mirror on my way to the shower and think, 'Oh God, I didn't just see that!'

Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body image issues are an aspect of their lives which is causing them low self esteem and day-to-day suffering.

I definitely look at my body and I go: 'Yuck.'

I'm so not into being emaciated.

I was 15 years old, taken out into a parking lot on the set of 'Donny & Marie,' and at the time I was 5-foot-5 and 103 pounds - like, nothing. I was told I was an embarrassment to my family and the show would be canceled if I didn't lose 10 pounds.

I couldn't believe they were saying I put a horrible fake plastic bosom over scars I was trying to heal and keep it in place with a tight bra, which could stop my blood flow, just so I could fit into my clothes.

As a teenager, my favourite rejection was, 'She looks too healthy,' which of course translates as, 'She needs to lose weight.'

I must be an anorexic because an anorexic looks in the mirror and sees a fat person.

Being too thin. Being bigger. I've been criticized for being on both sides of the scale.

I've exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.

Psychologically, I'll always be a fat girl because that's what my character is built on. I always got a buzz out of people telling me I was ugly. I went out of my way to un-beautify myself. I didn't want anyone's approval.

As a dancer I've always checked my body constantly; 'Am I having a good day or am I having a fat day?'

I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.

The waist is a terrible thing to mind.