Laura Marling Quotes

You watch yourself age and it's hard to feel like a sex symbol.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

I always wanted to be more validated as a human being, as a person, than I was as a player. I think that was a really hard balance for me.

Once, in a dry season, I wrote in large letters across two pages of a notebook that innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself. Although now, some years later, I marvel that a mind on the outs with itself should have nonetheless made painstaking record of its every tremor, I recall with embarrassing clarity the flavor of those particular ashes. It was a matter of misplaced self-respect.

She looks at herself in the mirror. The idea is to look sexy again. And for whom exactly? Yourself, of course. Yes, well, that's all wonderfully self-affirming and very strong-minded as any decent woman should be these days, but let's just face facts here and say that when a woman - no, when a person is thinking about feeling sexy, it is always with the idea of someone else in mind.

If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as to consort with us, so little perception as to remain blind to our fatal weaknesses. On the other, we are peculiarly in thrall to everyone we see, curiously determined to live out — since our self-image is untenable — their false notions of us… We play roles doomed to failure before they are begun, each defeat generating fresh despair at the urgency of divining and meeting the next demand made upon us.

You would love the way he sees you. He uses you as a weapon against himself and not merely because you did

After all, conflict arises, does it not, through the desire to be something, to be other than what is.

I know that when I attached my sense of identity a little too closely to my work that I might be distracting myself from feelings of unworthiness. It wasn't the number of hours I worked or how bloodshot my eyes were that defined the difference. It was something internal.

Beauty was never really my trip. Maybe those roles are attracted to me?

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.

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

I'm pretty, but I'm not, like, a 'pretty girl.'

I'm searching, as we all are, for ways to feel good about myself. Certainly, looking in the mirror doesn't do it!

I see pictures of myself and I always knew that what I was feeling didn't look like that guy in the pictures.

I've struggled for confidence and had great doubts about myself. But, personally, I'm not riddled with guilt.

I've had a lot of self-esteem issues.

Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself.

My hands tend to be full enough dealing with people who hate me for who I am. Concentrate too hard on the millions of people who hate you for what you are and you're likely to turn into one of those unkempt, sloppy dressers who sag beneath the weight of the two hundred political buttons they wear pinned to their coats and knapsacks.

The #1 problem most patients face is the inability to love themselves

When you look in the mirror and hate what you see, you need addictions to survive.

It's impossible to consistently behave in a manner inconsistent with how we see ourselves. We can do very few things in a positive way if we feel negative about ourselves.

So many people dislike themselves so thoroughly that they never see any reproduction of themselves that suits. None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.

Elizabeth scowled, feeling like a nobody, a nothing. She felt like her entire self had been made worthless. She could change her interests, but she couldn't change her looks. She'd never be six feet tall. She'd never look like a supermodel.