Luise Rainer Quotes

I was thin and didn't realize how small I was - I was, like, 96 pounds when I got signed. You don't want to be 96 pounds. It's not attractive. I didn't know how to do my hair and makeup. I was such a tomboy.

As a kid I had buck teeth and braces and acne. I hated what I saw. I'm still not comfortable, but that's why I change and adapt the way I look.

With women, the way they look... it's the core of their self-esteem.

Even my mother told me: 'You are a handsome woman, but you're not pretty. Pretty girls don't have those big bones.'

It's never enjoyable watching yourself. Because you're never as good looking as you hope you are. You're not expecting to be Penelope Cruz... but I'm a female of the species. I have my hang-ups and all of that.

Girls know when they're attractive.

Like any woman, I worry about my body.

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

I do wish my breasts were bigger. Not big... but less small.

I think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I've been cast.

I think every girl always has doubts about her body.

I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.

I'm not that good looking.

I was bulimic and anorexic for a while, just hating my body. As an actress, I was never thin enough, never pretty enough. My boobs weren't big enough.

My eyes are too small, and they're too close together, and I have a pointy nose. But who cares? Who cares?!

I don't see myself as beautiful. I was a kid who was freckle-faced, and they used to call me 'hay head.'

I always think I look like the Elephant Man - I can't get used to my own image.

Since I was a little child, my nose - I think it's too big.

I'm not a centerfold.

I'm never satisfied with the way I look.

I'm very uncomfortable about the way I look but confident as a man.

Oh, I'm not beautiful. I can look beautiful; I can put beauty on. When I'm tired, I look bloody awful. I think I'm turning into the actress from 'Dynasty,' Linda Evans.

I don't think I'm curvaceous. It's simply that most other actresses are really, stupidly tiny.

When I'm sitting in a casting room in Paris, I'm not the thinnest model. Sometimes I'm not the most flat-chested, either.

It's not my plan or whatever in my life to be a sex symbol. It never is. You are who you are, but you can't help what you look like. And when you do a film, like for me, it's just not about that. I would prefer to downplay it. I prefer to downplay the sex appeal.