Hayley Atwell Quotes

I remember in middle school and high school being so concerned with what everybody else thought. I was trying to be someone I wasn't. I wish I could've just let it slide and not cared about it.

I say whatever I want, I look whatever I want. That doesn't mean I don't question myself and feel insecure.

I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing.

No-one really feels self-confident deep down because it's an artificial idea. Really, people aren't that worried about what you're doing or what you're saying, so you can drift around the world relatively anonymously: you must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from that idea that people are watching you.

I'd like people to understand that I do have some personality.

I'm not super comfortable in my skin. I have to make it work for me, and that usually amounts to making it uncomfortable for everyone else.

When I was younger, I was afraid to be myself.

I just didn't believe I was like everybody else. I thought I was unique.

For me, it's about not being too aware of what you look like because if you are, you're trying too hard and I don't think that actually makes you look good... I've known from very early on that I don't look perfect.

When you are in the public eye, it is really counterproductive to think about how you're viewed in the eyes of others. You just have to be who you are.

I still consider myself a little, fat kid from Hawaii.

I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny - I looked like me.

I don't want to be taller; I want to be myself.

When someone tells me that I'm not real, I say to them, 'Well, what about me isn't real?' I have not changed my figure. This is who I am.

The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.

I was very unsure of myself when I was young and an ugly little beggar with protruding teeth, so I used to lie on them at night to try to straighten them.

I've been working on the way my originality, my body, my face, my original form is perceived by me.

Style comes from knowing who you are and who you want to be in the world; it does not come from wanting to be somebody else, or wanting to be thinner, shorter, taller, prettier.

I've spent my whole life being told I have a face like a horse. You are just what you are, aren't you?

I'm 43 now. I've reached the point where I really can't care what anyone thinks. Of course, I do. I'm an actress. I'm totally insecure, but I'm trying to stick to my guns about what is important to me, and it doesn't matter what anyone thinks I should or shouldn't do.

I'm not as shy as everybody makes me out to be.

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

I'm not really a flirt; I just try to be myself.

I have not taken my good looks seriously from the beginning. When I would be teased by my friends about my looks, I would just make a self-deprecating remark and let it pass.

I think style is very different from fashion. Fashion was what I went after when I was feeling incredibly insecure and monstrous on the inside.