Sophie Dahl Quotes

I wish my 15-year-old self had known about my allure to the opposite sex!

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

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.

It's always difficult to see yourself as other people do, but I'm realistic about my appearance. I wasn't born with one of those pretty, pretty faces, so I've never been absorbed with the way I look. I just try to make the most of what I've got.

I was a good-looking kid. I never felt, like, dorky. I was just like, 'Yup, these are my braces. I've had them forever.'

All my family is average-sized, apart from me. I didn't really think about my size until I got older, a few years before high school. It had never really fazed me that much.

Had more confidence than I probably should have in high school. But I do remember feeling like I wish I could physically mature a little faster, fill out. In college it started to happen a little bit more, and my confidence started to grow - then I got out to L.A., and that got squashed immediately.

I was always so big, it took me a long time to grow into my body.

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

When I was very young I never thought I was attractive, because I was a tomboy and I was always the biggest girl in the class.

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

When I was 16, I was like any other boy at that age who dreams of having a good physique.

I'm happy that I have a look, but I don't over-analyse whether or not it's beautiful or ugly.

When I was younger I was always big; I was a fat boy at school. I had an early growth spurt, and when I went to secondary school I was tall enough to be a policeman.

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.

I was a skinny guy growing up, and I still feel like that same skinny kid.

It's not a prerequisite for an actor to be obsessed about his looks. I know there are people who don't look in the mirror at all, and I'm getting there.

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.

As a teenager, I was teased at school about my height and long legs, but now they are my best assets. Kids can be mean. When I was at school, I considered myself ugly, but that was when I was silly enough to believe that what other people thought mattered. Now I think I am pretty. I'm not beautiful. There is a difference.

In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be.

I've never felt like I've exactly traded on my looks. When I was a teenager, I was an ultra late bloomer, and my mom would say it was a blessing because it means you never have to wonder if guys are only interested in you because you've got boobs.

My face has always been my fortune anyway, not my body.

I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'm sort of, you know, hideous.

There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.

I've lived with myself for a very long time, so I'm aware of what I look like. I'm under no false pretense that I'm a stunner, so if somebody comes up and says something about my physical appearance, it's okay.