Misty Copeland Quotes

I was so beautiful but I didn't realise it for years. I saw pictures of myself and even I was stunned.

I understand exactly what I am.

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

I guess my voice is more recognizable than I know!

Take a look at yourself, the mirror's revealing. If yeen got it, yeen got it the theory is brilliant.

Being an actress hasn't made me insecure. I was insecure long before I declared I was an actress.

I'm not nearly as important as I used to think I was. It's a wonderful discovery.

It's one thing for other people to see potential in you, and it's quite another for you to understand that and see it in yourself.

So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.

I've never met anyone that is their image.

Perhaps I have a wider range than I'd given myself credit for.

When I was younger, my father told me not to pigeonhole the way that I perceive myself.

The actor has a constant problem of personal identity.

I have no doubt who I am.

Finding out I was pretty was a very nice realisation.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

To me, it seems like both 'Brief Interviews' and 'The Office' deal with characters that see themselves differently than the world sees them.

I do not know at what moment in life, if ever, we realise that we are neither George Sands nor Juliets. Of course, if we are not beautiful, we recognise early that beauty is nothing.

I don't see myself as a personality. I'm just another little guy.

My centre of who I thought I was was never very consciously about being beautiful or attractive - I think I'm one of those people who's actually grown into their looks.

I don't think anyone is the perfect one to play me.

I know who I am.

What do I see when I look in the mirror? One handsome man. No, I see the same person I have seen for the last 27 years: the person I believed I could be when I was a child, the person I have inspired and dreamed to be all my life, and that's the person I have seen, from being that big to as big as the roof - the same guy.

Although men are accused of not knowing their weakness, yet perhaps as few know their strength.