Michael Potts Quotes

The truth is that from the age of 14, I felt about 40, and for that reason, I felt that I would never succeed as an actor until my looks caught up with my actual age.

Since I'm not a fashion model, there's a limit to how nice I can make myself. I don't regard myself as an ugly person, but I don't think of myself as someone who would choose to be a model. I'm somebody who might be, I'd like to think, a role model for people who want to become lawyers.

It's funny when people say you have sex appeal or call you the next Brad Pitt. I just laugh. I'm not that. I don't want to be that.

I was such a tomboy - goofy and, in my eyes, nerdy - and I never thought I would end up in modeling. I mean, you see pictures of these girls in magazines who have this incredible talent, and no one ever really thinks you can make it to that level. At least I didn't!

It's nice that people want to compliment you in some superficial way, but I've never considered that that's how I might be categorized. I guess it's better than being called ugly.

It's something that's always been there for me, that I have huge blue eyes - it's been something that people have always talked about.

I like to look nice, but I'm not marketing being beautiful.

I have no issues with my identity.

What I do now defines who I am as a woman and how people see me; they don't see me as a little girl.

I don't think there'd be a Tina Fey now if I hadn't tried to look good in the beginning.

It'd be really nice to wake up looking like, I don't know, Jake Gyllenhaal and think, 'Let's try this on for a day and see how it feels.'

Yet I've discovered that how I look is not a function of anything as ephemeral as my hair.

Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.

You watch yourself age and it's hard to feel like a sex symbol.

I'm not that beautiful, and I don't want to be a pop star.

We have fallen in love with the body. That's that thing that looks back at us from the mirror. That's the repository of that lovely identity that you keep chasing all your life.

So I did that for a long time in my career, and I waited for parts to play myself just physically down a little bit. But I do feel like I'm at a place in my career now where I don't necessarily fret about that too much anymore.

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.

I'm an outgoing girl, and I can't help the way I look.

I am better than my reputation.

Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.

Growing up, the way that I looked was very important to me. I was always trying to impress people, and when I grew my beard there was a certain freedom, a separation, getting past this the way I looked, identify myself as a spiritual seeker.

The fact that I'm on CNN today is something I never would have guessed as a 13-year-old - or any other age, for that matter.

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

I'm quite looking forward to the fact that people know me as Richard rather than Craig.