Alessandro Michele Quotes

I'm worried about looking like a bad person when, in fact, I try to be a good person. I don't like the public image that I've been dressed with and it worries me.

I think that there are a lot of reasons to be insecure as an actress... But I don’t really have a perception issue. I’ve been pretty good about being who I am in the public’s eye.

I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.

I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing.

People's perceptions of me have nothing to do with reality. I'm basically just your average dork.

Why am I a star? It can't be because of looks.

We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?'

The only thing that matters is to have charm and expression. Then comes that horrible gnawing doubt of our own magnetism. Is it possible that, though we are not lovely, we are not irresistible either? That we will have to go through life belonging neither to the triumphantly beautiful nor to the triumphantly ugly?

You know, either I'm too fat or I'm flavour of the month. I don't feel either, but maybe I'm both, who knows?

If people see me in some sort of niche, then that's fine. As long as it's not The Naked Guy, I don't care.

I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

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

Okay, I am happy with the way I look, but I have never, never, ever thought of myself as a 'pretty girl.' Honestly. When I read some of these scripts I'm sent, and they describe the heroine as 'incredibly beautiful,' I wonder why they sent it to me.

I want people to like me. They don't have to always like my characters, you understand.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

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

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

I don't know what people think of me.

I used to consider myself weak.

I know I was not the hottest chick at school!

Id rather be seen the way I am now instead of falling over myself walking out of a club.

Elizabeth scowled, feeling like a nobody, a nothing. She felt like her entire self had been made worthless. She could change her interests, but she couldn't change her looks. She'd never be six feet tall. She'd never look like a supermodel.

But most of us who aren't models aren't models, right? And so, you just have to get used to that and sort of read right past it. So. On the sex symbol piece, I don't get that piece. On the personality piece, that people are excited to meet a leader from Mozilla - maybe there's more about meeting me personally than I give credit for, but I find that people are excited about what Mozilla is, more than 'Oh my god, there's Mitchell, look, her hair,' whatever.

a public persona that might be different from what we truly feel inside... everyone wonders if they are good enough, smart enough, pretty enough, no matter how old they are. It is an archetypical moral dilemma - Do you act like yourself and risk becoming an outcast?