Eileen Ford Quotes

I understand what it feels like not to like aspects of yourself. There have been times that I have felt really terrible about the way I look. I have the seed of that feeling.

I have a tough time judging myself.

When I watch myself on TV, it's impossible not to say, 'Is that really what my neck looks like?'

I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.

I don't like to watch myself. For the most part, I find it weird. It depresses me; I'm very critical.

It's not fun to see myself in the mirror.

I avoid looking in the mirror.

Well, I don't think I'm good-looking... I know people who are good-looking, and I'm not good-looking.

Imagine if somebody said your nose is too big or your ears stick out. For me, it was my neck was too short. It stuck with me all my life.

I can't look at the mirror beyond two minutes. I don't know what to look at. What is the point of looking at yourself? You can't change your face.

I'm always my worst critic.

I think I'm still, in many ways, a terribly self-conscious person. I'd probably be shooting and think, "Well, how does my hair look?"

It's spooky to look at yourself, because you are never quite what you think you are. And you are never as good looking as the person you are acting with, or something like that. So I learned to stay away from it because it was giving me more negative feelings than positive ones.

I writhe when I see myself on the screen. I'm such a dreadfully clumsy hulking image. I say to myself, "Why doesn't he get off? Why doesn't he get off?" I mean, I look like such an idiot. Some fat awkward thing dredged up from some third-rate drama company. I must stop thinking about it, otherwise I shan't be able to go on working.

When I direct and have to look at filmed scenes of myself, I suck.

I used to think I had nice arms, but I don't even think that anymore.

My eyes are too big, my nose is too flat, my ears stick out, my mouth is too big and my face is too small... my body is thin as a clarinet and my ankles are so skinny that I wear two pairs of bobby socks because I don't want people to see how thin they are.

I always assume I look better than I actually do. I'll feel pretty good about myself when I leave the house, then I'll see a picture and think, 'Crap, I had no idea that's what I was looking like.'

You're always going to be more judgmental about your own performance than anyone else.

Since I was a little child, my nose - I think it's too big.

I'm never satisfied with the way I look.

I worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I'd want to kick my own ass.

I never like photos of myself in the beginning. I live with them for three months, put them in a drawer, take them out and look again. I hate the way I look, but of course it's really not that bad.

I'm not going to lie: I still have days when I walk by the mirror on my way to the shower and think, 'Oh God, I didn't just see that!'

It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.