Gabourey Sidibe 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 never saw myself as beautiful. I can look back and see it now, but then? Never.

To start telling people that you're beautiful, or just feel beautiful, just start acting like you are the most beautiful woman in the world. And it really improves everything! Because your sort of psyche responds to it - like this is truthful!

Be beautiful, be stylish, and love yourself.

Look at yourself in the mirror and don't be afraid to notice how beautiful you are.

We can all be beautiful girls.

I'm beautiful in my way 'cause God makes no mistakes. I'm on the right track baby, I was born this way.

I'm not a great beauty. That's not me.

One day I decided that I was beautiful, and so I carried out my life as if I was a beautiful girl. I wear colors that I really like, I wear makeup that makes me feel pretty, and it really helps. It doesn't have anything to do with how the world perceives you. What matters is what you see.

'Nappy' is a state of mind, not an appearance.

Well, I'm clearly not ugly.

I'm learning to embrace who I am and what I look like.

I certainly used to wish that I was skinny, lighter-skinned, with long, pretty hair. But only because I used to get made fun of for being the absolute opposite. I didn't see all of that stuff as the American Dream. I just wanted to look normal. Now that I'm older, I really do feel like I am a beautiful girl.

There was a time when I didn't like myself at all. I thought I was a cruel joke. But now I've come to realise that maybe I am not cute, but I am beautiful.

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

Ego is good.

Maybe I am a little bit guilty of trying to convince myself that I am cool to this point - even today. But I am so much more healthy than I used to be in my twenties, because I was not accepted at all.

I think I'm happy with who I am. I don't know if I learned that from other girls or just people in general.

As long as you feel confident, you're going to look beautiful. You don't need to be a stick figure to be beautiful.

What we all learn is that beauty isn't a size 2. It's not a size 4. It's not a size 12. It's how you feel.

I didn't think of myself as beautiful, but, in retrospect, I guess I 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.

There were moments growing up where I felt beautiful, but I truly didn't feel beautiful all of the time until I became a mom. It really allowed me to realize no one is perfect.

I'm sexy literally and I know it. I'm sexy because I know it.

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