Michael Zaslow Quotes

You are absolutely free to describe me as a turtle or something.

Laugh at yourself - a lot. My mum taught me not to take myself too seriously.

You have to know how to evolve with age without trying to hang on to your younger image of yourself from the past.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

We are never happy until we learn to laugh at ourselves.

So when I look in the mirror I'm driven by both vanity and fear.

When you hit your 40s, you're walking around, and you realize, 'Oh, my God, men don't look at me anymore.' Or sometimes you can feel really good, and then you look in the mirror, and you're like, 'Oh, Jesus, that's my face now!' But I have tell you that something happened and shifted inside of me.

You have to start laughing at yourself at some point.

I don't want to change anything about myself.

Everybody thinks I am a narcissist. I am actually the opposite of that.

I don't laugh at me. I used to. I used to get the giggles when I'd see myself. But now, I see myself onscreen, and I sure don't laugh.

The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.

It's occurred to me I need to laugh at myself more, and that I don't need to be some sad folk singer all the time. I don't want to be the queen of pain.

If you can't laugh at yourself, then how can you laugh at anybody else? I think people see the human side of you when you do that.

As I get older, I'm more comfortable in my skin.

You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.

I'm always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how they want to be seen. And the older you get, the world keeps telling you different things about yourself. And how people either adjust to those things and let go of adolescent notions. Or they dig in deeper.

I have been a woman for 46 years and I only recently realized I can't change it and I like it.

I feel like all my faults go into making the person that I am. I like myself as a person. And I think taking any fault away would change who I am as a person.

Believe it or not, I don't wake up looking like a supermodel.

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

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection.

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

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.