Barbra Streisand Quotes

I don't have to go to a doctor and have my face changed. It terrifies me that women do that.

I would love a nose job, but I'm scared. I would do just about anything to maintain myself.

I attempted various types of plastic surgery, minutely but enough to stave off this encroaching middle-aged body. And every time I did, something went wrong. I felt misshapen, just not natural any more.

It really bugs me when people say I've had a nose job.

I hope people don't get tired of looking at me.

I get insecure about a lot of things. In my line of work, unfortunately, your appearance is important, and I'm always like, 'Am I going to the gym enough this month? Have I been taking care of myself?' I get insecure about things from time to time.

When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.

Not everybody's confident their whole life.

Of course, every time someone does a story on plastic surgery, my name will be dragged up. I've made it safe for other people to have plastic surgery. It's no longer a bad word.

I couldn't bear it if anyone knew I had hardly any self-confidence at all.

I get described as 'interesting' a lot. People often call me odd, too. Maybe they mean ugly. Given the services of a plastic surgeon, I would get a pair of cheekbones.

I think that promoting insecurity in the form of plastic surgery is infinitely more harmful than an artistic expression related to body modification.

Plastic surgery is like a big elephant sitting in the Hollywood living room.

I was so worried that people wouldn't like me or my story.

I lost my confidence.

Everyone has that friend who's every day, like, 'I hate my nose, I hate my nose, I hate my nose.' You either need to come to peace with it and be like, alright, I hate it, but it's part of me - or change it. So I'm not against plastic surgery, I'm against plastic surgery when it doesn't really need to be done.

For years, I didn't give interviews because I was scared of people judging me or thinking I was arrogant.

Yes, I was on the cover of 'Vogue,' but girls on the cover of 'Vogue' are the most scared of rejection. Models are the most insecure of them all. Actually, actors and actresses are, and then musicians, and then models!

I've always had a complex about being taken seriously.

There's a difference between wanting to appear confident and actually feeling confident. I think there have been many times when I've overcompensated for how nervous or out of place I feel. I was like that at school.

When you doubt one thing about yourself, you start thinking there's also something wrong with your hair, your body, your clothes, your accent.

I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger', and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.

I haven't met a woman without insecurities.

When the eyes are on you for the first time, you can't believe that people aren't criticising you.

Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don't even recognize myself, sometimes. If I catch a glimpse in a window or something, I think it is someone else.