Pete Doherty Quotes

Imperfections would not be half so much taken notice of, if vanity did not make proclamation of them.

Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I'm not what I'd like to be.

We are all unappealing. It is just a matter of how much we let people see it.

No one's busy thinking bad things about you. They're all too busy thinking bad things about themselves.

Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer self depreciation.

We all start out thinking that there is such a thing as perfection and that there's something wrong with us if we settle for less. First we won't eat the food with the brown spots. Then we hate ourselves because we have our own brown spots—pimples or ears that are too big or legs that are too skinny.

It's really hard to see yourself and to recognize that you are a human being like everybody else. You just think everybody's judging you.

If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful.

I don't see myself as the perfect person at all.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

I get so much mail from young women saying that they are so insecure when they look at me, but they don't realize all of the flaws that I have.

I'm not hard on myself - I brush those things off - but there are days when I'm pleased with myself, and days when I think I have elf ears.

Some days I think I look kind of cute, but other days I try to avoid the mirror.

I've been out with men who have literally had an argument with the mirror because they couldn't get their hair right. When I was younger, I might have reassured him, but I can't do that anymore.

I'm not that interesting of a person.

I'm not vain, I'm insecure.

I consider myself a little weak.

'My self-esteem,' 'my self-this,' 'my self-that.' Believe me, I've been there - I'm an actress. At one point, you just get nauseous with it and think, 'I have to take my mind off myself!'

Realize that everyone that you think is perfect feels like they're not good enough, too.

Well, I don't think I'm good-looking... I know people who are good-looking, and I'm not good-looking.

Comparison is painful. Don't be cowed by other people's pretty pictures. When you feel unimpressive, or irrelevant, that has nothing to do with what you're actually capable of.

What the heck did people see in me?

I made mistakes, I know, but I'm not the ugly duckling that some people seem to think.

People may see me as a luxurious star, but I am always thinking I can be represented by my psychological world that is fraught with vanity, loneliness, and always feels inadequate.

There's no such thing as being perfect, and that doesn't just mean the perfect body.