Mariel Hemingway Quotes

I surround myself with people who really understand and love me. I think that's the best thing I can do.

You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.

Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.

I feel it is important not to get overly obsessed and overly carried away with just the physical aspect. There is more to beauty than just the physical appearance. You are also a complete person, and a woman should have an identity beyond just the way she looks.

My parents- they've been my biggest influences and supporters since day one. They teach me every day that happiness comes from within and not from something outside of your heart.

When I think of all the years in my 30s when I starved myself... but when I got the role of Lois, I stopped thinking about my looks and was just myself.

It's the love you have for yourself that's most important.

Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.

I think every girl needs to love herself, regardless of anything. Like if you're having a bad day, if you don't like your hair, if you don't have the best family situation, whatever, you have to love yourself and you can't do anything until you love yourself first.

If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.

I know many beautiful people and their lives are just so terrible. They feel so uncomfortable with themselves. Being comfortable is not about what you look like, but how you feel.

For so many years, I felt so insecure, so inferior, and I still have those moments, but I have a newfound confidence since I got in shape and changed my diet.

Well, I think everyone struggles with self-love.

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.

People tend to look great if they feel great.

I don't have the best self esteem; mine wavers month to month, but I know how to pick myself up.

Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.

If you don't love yourself, you can't love anybody else. And I think as women we really forget that.

Lately though I've been in love with myself and I've become my own best friend.

You just have to surround yourself with people who are going to support and love you before trying to sell you as a product, or push you into something you don't want to do.

If you're not happy about how you look, you have to question how much self-love you have.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

I feel like I have a healthy self-esteem.

I will never be able to fix myself enough to the point I like myself, so I just jumped to the point where I said, 'I like myself as I am.'

I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.