Emily Mortimer Quotes

I'm not a pin-up, thankfully. I'm not suggesting I feel unconfident. I am beautiful to my husband. I am beautiful to my friends. I feel sexy and all those things with the people I love.

I think of myself as a fairly attractive girl and always have, thanks to my mom. I was brought into this world thinking I was gorgeous because my mother was extremely devoted to this notion.

I was always okay with the fact that I was taller and bigger than everybody else growing up. My mom, my dad, and my friends always told me I was beautiful.

I feel flattered that people like the way I look, but it doesn't help you win points.

I'm very open about the fact that it's nice when someone says you're pretty. Especially for someone like me.

I was never an ambitious girl, or even a self-confident one. I never went in for beauty pageants or wore a stitch of make-up until I went to Los Angeles.

I never thought of myself as handsome.

I'm no pin-up.

I'm not an insecure person, per se, but I just never saw myself as the girl who walks into a place and everybody goes, 'Wow.'

I don't think I was ravishing, but I think I was pretty.

Well, I'm clearly not ugly.

When I was a kid, nobody told me I was good-looking. I wish they had. I would've had a better time.

I don't mind being ridiculed - well, I guess I would mind a little, but it would only last a few minutes - it's all very ephemeral; it doesn't really matter what people think of me.

Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.

No, I'm not good looking.

I'm not out here to win a beauty contest.

Listen: I'm OK cute. I'm no stunner.

I'm no sexual siren. I see prettier girls than me in the grocery store every day.

I'm not a stunning woman.

Nobody has ever said to me that I was pretty, 'til I met Peter Beard.

If I get dressed up, and my boyfriend says, 'You look gorgeous,' I kinda feel funny. I don't know if I'm particularly comfortable with being attractive.

I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be 'sexy,' even before I knew what the word was.

My detractors, who delight in using my name as a byword for unattractiveness, will find it hard to believe, but looking in the mirror is a pleasant experience.

My looks were good enough for what I needed in every possible way but not so much to be a burden.

God, I don't think of myself as gorgeous at all!