Joan Rivers Quotes

I never thought I was cute, ever.

I don't mind not being cool.

At school, I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking.

I think the way kids create is so inspiring. They're drawing a picture? They love the picture they drew; they're not tortured about it.

I grew up with low self-esteem. I didn't think I was very pretty. I had glasses, red hair and was generally quite a spod.

I think there's a part, just a part of comedians, that is still childlike.

I've spent my whole life being told I have a face like a horse. You are just what you are, aren't you?

The thing that I like about being me is that everybody gets a different feeling from me.

People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.

I have not taken my good looks seriously from the beginning. When I would be teased by my friends about my looks, I would just make a self-deprecating remark and let it pass.

When I realised I had a facility for humour, I latched on to it, and it gave me confidence and I built my personality around it. So I subconsciously made myself become the funny one so that would be my label rather than the ginger one or the red-faced one.

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.

Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.

All of us, no matter how we look born into this world, feel something like the Hunchback. It doesn't matter if you have a beautiful face or not.

I don't think I'm boring.

I think it's real easy to look at what's out there and get discouraged. I was never the best-looking guy, I was never the Tom Cruise-looking guy. I think the biggest thing I can say is, 'Don't compare yourself.'

I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self.

I'm very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it's more - I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really - it was kind of my calling card as a kid.

I'm not interesting enough on my own that you'd want to see a film about me.

I've always felt like a kid, and I still feel like a kid, and I've never had any problem tapping into my childhood, and my kid side.

I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny.

I used to be very insecure about my curly hair, because I lived in a country where everybody had blonde straight hair.

If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.

I used to be teased for the way I wore my hair at school. I used to do things like wear a different-colored sock on each leg.

Sometimes I'm sexy, and sometimes I'm not.