Sarah Parish Quotes

As a teenager, I was teased at school about my height and long legs, but now they are my best assets. Kids can be mean. When I was at school, I considered myself ugly, but that was when I was silly enough to believe that what other people thought mattered. Now I think I am pretty. I'm not beautiful. There is a difference.

I wish my 15-year-old self had known about my allure to the opposite sex!

Self-esteem, the kind that comes from finding the sweet spot between a healthy fondness for yourself and healthy self-skepticism, tends to get harder to come by the older we get.

When you're young, you worry about what other people think. The older you get, the less that matters.

I never saw myself as beautiful. I can look back and see it now, but then? Never.

I'm basically a professional nerd, and I'm still not cool. I'm around people who are cool sometimes, and I know I'm not them. But that's OK; I don't care.

I didn't think of myself as beautiful, but, in retrospect, I guess I was.

I was so much more insecure at 19. Thank God. It would be really cruel if there were a 19-year-old walking around with my confidence.

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 like the cut of my gib. I dislike the way I move.

It never dawned on me that I was sexy. I always thought of myself as the goofy kid.

I was always so big, it took me a long time to grow into my body.

You never want to look in a mirror," Lula said. "Men love mirrors. They look at themselves doing the deed and they see Rex the Wonder Horse. Women look at themselves and think they need to renew their membership at the gym.

I say whatever I want, I look whatever I want. That doesn't mean I don't question myself and feel insecure.

I've never hidden the fact that I used to be shy, even when I was 30. However, I might have been self-conscious on the inside, but I was never inhibited about my body.

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

As I get older, I'm more comfortable in my skin.

Being an actress hasn't made me insecure. I was insecure long before I declared I was an actress.

I'm not nearly as important as I used to think I was. It's a wonderful discovery.

If I'd trusted myself and listened to myself all the times that I ignored myself, I would have been fine. But everyone has to learn their lesson, and now I've got it.

I don't think I'm beautiful. When I look in the mirror, I just see me - and, I'm pretty used to me.

I never like photos of myself in the beginning. I live with them for three months, put them in a drawer, take them out and look again. I hate the way I look, but of course it's really not that bad.

I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.

When I first got into the league, I tried to fit in. Now I don't care.

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