Isaac Mizrahi Quotes

People who are insecure about themselves will avoid social comparisons that are potentially threatening to their self-esteem

I feel uncomfortable because I'm insecure about who I am.

We all start out thinking that there is such a thing as perfection and that there's something wrong with us if we settle for less. First we won't eat the food with the brown spots. Then we hate ourselves because we have our own brown spots—pimples or ears that are too big or legs that are too skinny.

You have to be really comfortable with yourself because people are going to tell you that you're eyes are too brown or you're this or you're that. And if you're not comfortable with yourself, you could get pretty freaked out.

Speed eliminates all doubt. Am I smart enough? Will people like me? Do I really look all right in this plastic jumpsuit?

I'm not a beautiful person and I never have been.

I've always had a complex about being taken seriously.

My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.

I don't think I am narcissistic. I think I have low self-esteem.

I had low self-esteem.

I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.

Go out and face the world secure in the knowledge that everybody else thinks they are better looking than they are as well.

Half of my anxiety is about whether people are going to like me.

Comparison is painful. Don't be cowed by other people's pretty pictures. When you feel unimpressive, or irrelevant, that has nothing to do with what you're actually capable of.

I'm always super scared of feeling like a fake.

When I'm away from sport and not doing something I have much self-belief in, I can lack self-confidence at times.

I had this fear of rejection. I had this inner unworthiness.

I was holding my mum's hands and praying. Will people accept me with my pimples and hoarse voice?

I used to consider myself weak.

If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed and made unfruitful by it, one has to be very grateful to fashion

I divorce myself from listeners who aren't tolerant of humor. I did notice universally that, especially when it comes to weight, people look in the mirror and get the angle just right, tell themselves it's all right, and then they go out.

I feel like I'm the worst, so I always act like I'm the best.

People have been so busy relating to how I look, it's a miracle I didn't become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm.

No one's busy thinking bad things about you. They're all too busy thinking bad things about themselves.

Vice knows she is ugly, so puts on her mask.