Edmund S. Muskie Quotes

What we view in the media - and who presents it to us - does so much to determine how we think, how we feel about ourselves, and how we view the world.

You look in the mirror, but you don't see what you actually look like.

I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they transmit movement to it.

I don't see myself as angry, although other people see that. I just see myself as a short, dumpy guy with bad feet, and I'm passionate.

I never like seeing myself on screen.

I still have very normal insecurities, but I've always been made to feel like a body is a body, and it's not supposed to look like what you see in the media.

Most of my clients don't realize that the way they look and the way they think about their looks are two separate issues.

You have to find out who you are aside from what the media say you are. If you've become reliant on them for kind of a sense of self, then you're really screwed.

I didn't realize I was the 'fat' sister until I went on TV and the media started saying that about me.

It's funny, but I never knew I was hot or could be beautiful until I saw 'Basic Instinct,' and I was so shocked when I saw how pretty they made me.

People see us as no better than we are.

I feel I'm such a big part of that insecurity that some girls might have because of my job, that girls think they have to be that picture. And even boys, they think that that picture exists, and it's so frustrating because I don't look like that picture - I wake up not looking like that picture.

Misconception Number 1, the public always thought, 'Reggie has a massive ego; he's narcissistic, he's cocky, he needs everyone to look at him all the time,' because that's what the media told them. Wrong. I could handle the attention. I didn't let the attention affect my performance. But I never needed the attention.

Media images are so important to young people feeling positive about themselves.

I think television does tease out a certain vanity in everybody when you look at yourself and you go, 'Oh Christ.' Maybe that's why my intros get shorter and shorter.

I did an internship with Dove when they were doing the 'real beauty' campaign, and I was really inspired by that. Growing up in L.A., being a young woman, and seeing how the media tells young women to be everything you're not, I kind of wrote about that experience.

The thing I really know is that I'm not a model. I'm an actress.

For me, I've never really thought of myself as labeled as a shooter or whatever. People can say whatever they want.

I couldn't stand seeing myself on the screen.

Accepting your body and body image is very important, because there are images that are put out in the media and in your face every day that you need to look this certain kind of way, that it's gonna take you far in life.

Growing up, it was hard to associate with some of the women who were being portrayed in the media.

People reacted to how I looked, and that was certainly a power to have as a young girl, but not one that you really understand.

I don't think I look like I do on the telly.

I think it's strange for people to read about themselves, no matter what's portrayed or how it's portrayed. But they get used to it, and I think they're fine with it.

Men have better self-images than women. You know what I've never seen in a men's magazine? A makeover.