Jim McKay Quotes

I always had good friends, but I did not feel like a cool girl, ever.

I'm not that good looking.

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 am not a beauty queen, and I was not the popular girl in high school.

I'm not a 'Twilight' boy; I'll never be as good looking as those lads, and that's fair enough.

I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.

There's no amount of money that makes you feel better when people think of you as a joke or a hack or a failure or ugly or stupid or morally empty.

No, I'm not good looking.

My first three years of high school, I wasn't that cool.

When I was 18, and my looks were what I was - and all that I was - it did feel very limiting.

When I was growing up, man, I didn't know myself. I was striving for respect. Trying to be cool for the girls. I wasn't the biggest dude and I'm a nice guy.

I don't know if I owned a toothbrush until I was 19, maybe. I didn't come from stock that placed any importance on the toothbrush. But a couple of girls I met changed that. And I would do anything to get a girl to pay attention to me long enough that I could feel good about myself.

I cancel going out if my hair doesn't look good.

I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing.

I don't mind not being cool.

For my writing, and because I love talking to young women about life, I often asked them which would they rather have - a father in the house with them while growing up or a big butt? I tell you 86 percent of the time, girls say a big butt because it gets them further.

If anything, we should feel sorry for the people who want us to feel bad about ourselves, because they are the ones struggling for approval. In middle school, bullies tortured other kids because they thought it would make people like them more.

Insecurity is a natural part of human nature, and there are times we feel our stories are not worth telling, so we turn to the people we admire for strength. If we dress like someone everyone thinks is cool, perhaps we'll be seen as cool.

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

People's perceptions of me have nothing to do with reality. I'm basically just your average dork.

I think that most actors don't have very good opinions of themselves.

You get stared at the whole time. I first noticed that when I was about 13. I was very shy. Being considered beautiful, I always felt that people were waiting for something more. I imagined you were supposed to have an intellectual ability - and I'm making no claims here - proportional to your supposed good looks.

I'm not a centerfold.

But I always like to play ugly people who think they're pretty.

When you feel good, you look good. And vice versa: When you look good, you feel good.