Horace Walpole Quotes

If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you're not going to know yourself very well. If you got it, flaunt it.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

Hey Rid?" She stopped and turned to look at him, almost ruefully. Like she couldn't help what she was any more then a shark could help being a shark, but if she could... "Yeah, Shrinky Dink?" "You're not all bad." She looked right at him and almost smiled. "You know what they say. Maybe I'm just drawn that way.

Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.

I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.

At some point, the pride has to be a part of the whole day-to-day oeuvre. It's part of who you are and doesn't need to be discussed anymore.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

When someone says to you, 'Oh, I don't take a good picture,' what they mean is they haven't come to terms with how they look. They take a fine picture, it's just that their image of how they think they look is not in touch with the reality.

I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.

Nobody walks this earth thinking he's better than I think I am - I think I'm great. At the same time, it's so obvious to me that I'm nobody.

The whole shadow of Man is only as big as his hat.

I know I am very beautiful.

I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

I don't spend a lot of time in the mirror.

I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important.

Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered.

So when I look in the mirror I'm driven by both vanity and fear.

People aren't interested in seeing themselves as they really are.

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.

If someone was like, 'Describe yourself in one word,' I would never say, 'Handsome.'

Quite often, I will do something and think, 'Oh, no, she looks a little too much like me.' I have tried to learn not to be afraid of that when that happens. I am not trying to obliterate myself and completely hide within the images like I used to.

I have never looked at myself as a star.