Raven-Symone Quotes

If I'm two pounds heavier, I'm fat. If I'm skinnier, I'm sick. It's ridiculous. And that's not coming from agents or designers.

Any of us in the public eye must remember: Never, ever believe your own press, and pray to develop a hypersensitive gag reflex regarding your own importance.

The public doesn't care about my size. It's just something for the media to talk about.

People go to the movies to watch a film and all they're thinking about is the actress's cellulite they saw in a magazine.

Look, at the same time that I don't want to be a celebrity, I understand that when you make movies you put yourself out in the public eye. I'd be a baby and a fool to be like, 'Why are there cameras taking pictures of me?' when I'm on a billboard for a movie. I think that's a very absurd concept.

I find it to be strange that people get obsessed about how fast actresses and celebrities are taking off their baby weight. I guess people like to look to them and feel better about themselves or feel worse about themselves.

I find this wave of super-skinny women scary. I'm not going to lie to you, I've got to drag myself down to the gym like everybody else. But I look at the red carpet sometimes and it's like a pageant.

Some people think, if you're in the public eye, that you have to have an answer for everything and it has to be boring.

People recognize me - but if you've been in the public eye as long as I have and people don't recognize you, I feel bad about myself.

Women today are bombarded with so many messages, like we should have Naomi Campbell's body and Madeleine Albright's career.

The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.

Eve wasn't a size 6 and neither am I.

Why would anyone want to be called a size zero or even aspire to being a zero? I don't even understand the thinking behind it, let alone the practicalities. What is all that about?

We're teaching young girls that this is what they should be focusing on: rich and famous girls who are rich and famous for nothing.

What I find most upsetting about this new all-consuming beauty culture is that the obsession with good looks, and how you can supposedly attain them, is almost entirely female-driven.

They tell us in magazines and in ads, 'Oh, you should look like this, you should wear this, you should look like this movie star, or you're nothing.' And so we're all totally unsatisfied.

The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.

I've learned to suck in my stomach when photographers are around. I used to read gossip magazines all the time, but I stopped when I started being written about in them and read incredible lies about myself.

Once you're put out there in the public eye, people feel a certain ownership over you.

Being in the public eye, you're always worried about what angle people are going to take pictures of you at. I don't really care anymore.

I think one of the greatest advantages we had on the show growing up was being exposed to Mr. Cosby - being exposed to his work ethic, being exposed to how he handles the job of celebrity and living in the public eye... I think that all had a real significant impact.

There's a difference between being a star and an actor. If you feed off from being in the public eye, this is the unfortunate flipside to it.

Society puts so much pressure on girls to look a certain way.

People are so influenced by the media that they really believe a 38-24-45 plastic-surgery body is normal, and they can't understand why a body would possibly have cellulite or bumps.

When you're a woman, you have such a strange relationship with your body because - especially when you're in the public eye - you're constantly being judged.