Romesh Ranganathan Quotes

I feel less pressure to dress for the eyes of other people now. I think that happened once I started modelling, near the end of high school.

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.

I know for a fact that many people repent and want to do away with their tattoos. It is all marketing and hype and nothing else. Also, tattoos stand out on fair and not wheatish complexion. God has given you a body. Why spoil it?

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

It's fun to be a girl, and get dressed up, but that's not how I really am.

A lot of my friends have tattoos; I realized that it's not only just a part of pop culture, but a bit of a map on someone's body, which says something about people. A part of their life, like an armor or a crest.

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

We put stereotypes on ourselves. Everybody does that. But I think it's just a little harder for black kids to just be who they are.

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.

I leave it to my audience. If I had another face, do you think I would wear this one?

I don't have tattoos, I have scars!

I felt so much pressure to come out on other people's terms, you know? I should have come out.

I've thought about it, but I don't think I'd ever get a 'Teen Wolf' tattoo, and I don't know why.

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'm 25. I'm a white, blonde girl in the entertainment industry - it's so easy to fall into a world of pleasing everyone. I feel more comfortable showing all these odd angles to myself.

As for tattoos, it does no good to remind curmudgeons that tattoos have been around for millennia. Yes, we will agree, tattoos have been common - first among savage tribes and then, more recently, among the lowest classes of Western societies.

To me, tattoos are a way of people being able to express themselves and have other people look at them and get a little insight into who they are, without ever even saying a word to them.

I wanted to try and get out of the stereotypical Geordie girl. I stopped wearing fake tan and wore WAG dresses. But I was really miserable.

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.

I've always in some way tried to rebel against the norm, but there's always been a voice deep inside that pressures me to look my best, not leave the house without makeup, etc.

When I started wearing makeup, my parents..... were like, 'You're absolutely not wearing it out of the house.' At first, I thought they were not happy with me wearing it, but later on, I realized it was out of fear of me getting bullied and ridiculed in school.

My tattoos have become a part of me. When I look in the mirror, I just see my face.

I don't waste a lot of time on profound embarrassment. I have always been somewhat the same person. I can think of maybe particular items of clothing that I think, "Oh God, I used to wear that?" But nothing serious. It's not like for a while I became some sort of goth wannabe. I've always pretty much been me.