Aimee Mullins Quotes

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.

Had more confidence than I probably should have in high school. But I do remember feeling like I wish I could physically mature a little faster, fill out. In college it started to happen a little bit more, and my confidence started to grow - then I got out to L.A., and that got squashed immediately.

I'm not too secure about my looks. They can always change.

Looking good has never been the most important thing to me. Maybe it's because I'm more conventionally, um, acceptable, so it's not an issue for me. I don't know.

As Mark Weiner puts it, whether you gain 50 pounds or lose 50 pounds, whether you have a sex change operation for that matter, that it doesn't matter, that there is some part of ourselves that we cannot escape.

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

The thing is that I never felt beautiful. I really never did. I think I can change my looks and be different things, but I've never thought of myself as this face.

I don't like myself without a beard.

I certainly used to wish that I was skinny, lighter-skinned, with long, pretty hair. But only because I used to get made fun of for being the absolute opposite. I didn't see all of that stuff as the American Dream. I just wanted to look normal. Now that I'm older, I really do feel like I am a beautiful girl.

For a woman, body image is always a palpable thing. Weirdly, for me, the only time I don't care is when I'm in character.

Most of my life I didn't feel very normal. There's definitely been some moments where I feel like, all right, I've finally graduated and I'm a normal lady.

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

I'm really quite happy to say that in my early 40s, I wake up feeling sexy, and I can't say I felt that way in my late 20s.

I couldn't work my way into being a good-looking guy.

If you're sad about what you see in the mirror when you wake up every morning, you must change it.

I really do believe that my style is informed by the fact that I had such issues with my appearance at various times of my life.

I'm not too secure about my looks. They can always change. I was heavy and overweight as a teenager, so it's hard to be cocky or egotistical.

You know, either I'm too fat or I'm flavour of the month. I don't feel either, but maybe I'm both, who knows?

I was over-confident while growing up. I think when you look a certain way, you try and compensate by something else. I was always a strong child, was always confident, but looks never mattered to me.

My face has always been my fortune anyway, not my body.

I like my old nose. If I could get it out the cupboard and put it on, then I would.

My appearance has changed a lot over the years, but it has far more to do with how I feel about being a woman.

MS doesn't define who I am.

Maybe I am a little bit guilty of trying to convince myself that I am cool to this point - even today. But I am so much more healthy than I used to be in my twenties, because I was not accepted at all.

Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But we are who we are.