Sara Bareilles Quotes

What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.

People have different impressions of themselves, and where reality lies is somewhere in between.

The general consensus seems to be that I don't act at all.

I don't think I'm boring.

Women have said the most malicious, disgusting things about me. But I know that when somebody comments about you, good or bad, it is 99 percent of the time their projection of how they feel about themselves.

There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

Well, I don't know what image people have of me.

Looking in the mirror is very strange; we see only what we choose to see, good or bad.

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.

I see myself as most people see themselves, you have good days and bad days. I don't think I'm better looking now than I did three years ago.

I don't read reviews, and I try not to read articles about me. It taints your outlook: if you believe the good things, you've got to believe the bad things, too.

I see my face in the mirror and go, 'I'm a Halloween costume? That's what they think of me?'

I can't remember who told me but I was advised early on not to Google myself or read things about myself... I don't read a lot but get the gist of what's been said from friends and family. It's good to avoid it if you want to be normal person.

I look at myself objectively and in a way I see myself as a commodity. Your name becomes somehow outside yourself. Now, when I'm at home being Mrs. Scarfe, that's when I'm most myself.

The whole shadow of Man is only as big as his hat.

My guess is that people look at me and project their own values - importance of family, ego is healthy but not the biggest thing. I don't know. I can't explain my popularity.

It's funny, a lot of people think I take myself seriously because I come off so serious sometimes. But it's not that I take myself seriously, I take what I do seriously.

People see us as no better than we are.

It's rather difficult to think of anybody being really interested in me.

I always define egotistical thoughts as the thoughts I think other people have of me.

There are so many projects that I've written and had to abort because either I felt too distressed by what I was doing to the people who I was writing about, or they couldn't cope with it because their view of themselves was so far removed from reality.

Every once in a while, you need a reminder of how people see you, view you.

I can't see myself as others see me.

People create the sort of myths they want to believe about themselves.