Christie Brinkley Quotes

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

It's nice that people want to compliment you in some superficial way, but I've never considered that that's how I might be categorized. I guess it's better than being called ugly.

My mother always taught me, even my dad, just never let other people's opinions of you shape your opinion of yourself. And I never have and I never will.

For most of my life, I've thought of myself as pretty cool.

I have no issues with my identity.

The clothes are not making me... If I like it, that's all that matters...It's not about the clothes. It's about how I am as a person and how confident I am.

The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.

I didn't think of myself as a tart, but I wouldn't argue with anyone who did.

There's not one person that I say I want to look like.

Yet I've discovered that how I look is not a function of anything as ephemeral as my hair.

I remember when I was starting out as a young actress, thinking, 'Oh my God, I have the fattest face.' Now I look at those pictures and I think, 'So much collagen!'

I don't think I'm beautiful. When I look in the mirror, I just see me - and, I'm pretty used to me.

The actor has a constant problem of personal identity.

Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.

I'm not that beautiful, and I don't want to be a pop star.

Why in the world would anyone want to photograph an old woman like me?

I don't know what it is about me, but I don't think of myself as sexy; I never have.

We have fallen in love with the body. That's that thing that looks back at us from the mirror. That's the repository of that lovely identity that you keep chasing all your life.

The thing that I like about being me is that everybody gets a different feeling from me.

I don't really care what other people see me as. I seriously don't. I've always worried about what my opinion of myself is. And I've always thought that it carries most weight. So I don't care what other people's opinion of me is or how they view whatever I've said or done.

I kept wanting to push my image as validity; I wanted to see my portrait on a wall and know it was okay.

I'm an outgoing girl, and I can't help the way I look.

I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.

For me, whatever age or size I've been, I have rather liked myself. The shell is not the thing at all.