Leslie Jamison Quotes

Any description of a person that comes from the outside is very hard to deal with. People don't like being summarised. It's nice to receive a compliment, but it makes me feel a bit uncomfortable.

Whether it's a relationship or what you're wearing, or how much you weigh and what you said when you didn't mean it, like - it's hard to be totally under the microscope.

We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.

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

As women, I think we're used to looking around to see what people think about this, who's approving of us, who's criticizing us, and whether we have to internalize their thoughts on us.

None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.

People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.

Maybe I am just a jerk.

If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

I really never thought about the way I looked until boys came into the picture.

I don't really like watching myself - it isn't necessarily one of my favourite things to do.

Guilt is feeling bad about what you have done; shame is feeling bad about who you are - all it is, is muddling up things you have done with who you are.

I'm the one who has to look in the mirror, and after a while it begins to eat at you.

I find it very hard to take myself seriously.

I don't like to read about myself, whether it be positive or negative.

What if I couldn't handle people's opinions of me? I know that shouldn't dictate a person's degree of peace or happiness in life, but the problem is, I chose a business saturated in judgment.

I don't believe anyone who says they don't care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.

I was never particularly fond of my voice.

I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.

My opinion about myself is so based on what other people think of me.

Normally I sit there in the films really hating watching myself. Loving watching the films, hating watching myself.

I don't dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don't know, people's perceptions of me. I truly don't.

I don't have a problem with my image; it's other people who do.

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