Ari Graynor Quotes

There is an epidemic right now of girls dumbing themselves down... in middle school because they think it makes them attractive.

If I were old, fat and ugly, I don't know if anybody would be interested in me.

I think if I was 5-foot-3, I would have been really popular and dated a lot more in high school. I didn't develop like the pretty girl.

It is difficult to imagine any time in history when so many people claiming to be so free have lived in so much fear of being unattractive.

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

I was popular in high school. I smiled, and I laughed, and I talked, and I wasn't bad-looking, but I was never considered beautiful - never, ever.

I wouldn't get asked to dances because I wasn't as petite and cute as the other girls.

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

I know I was not the hottest chick at school!

I think a lot of young girls go through that period in their life of finding who they are, and at that point, looking good matters the most.

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.

I was always in the popular crowd, but I really had atrocious teeth. I was encouraged to 'do well in school, 'cause no one's going to marry you!'

I really never thought about the way I looked until boys came into the picture.

With women, the way they look... it's the core of their self-esteem.

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.

When I was younger, the pressure was just being cool. I never thought of myself as a cool guy. I always thought of myself as more of the goofy guy.

The only thing that matters is to have charm and expression. Then comes that horrible gnawing doubt of our own magnetism. Is it possible that, though we are not lovely, we are not irresistible either? That we will have to go through life belonging neither to the triumphantly beautiful nor to the triumphantly ugly?

I think I can be relatively attractive when I dress up, but I'm not Julia Roberts or Catherine Zeta Jones.

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

So many girls only care about guys and looking good all the time.

I've lived with myself for a very long time, so I'm aware of what I look like. I'm under no false pretense that I'm a stunner, so if somebody comes up and says something about my physical appearance, it's okay.

I want people to think I'm sexy, but to know also that I've got an ordinary body and not feel intimidated.

I really never thought about the way I looked until boys came into the picture. Then it starts to be like, 'Am I wearing the right outfit? I have to do my makeup for school!'

Unattractive people are more obsessed with looks.

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