Derek Cianfrance Quotes

You compare yourself to somebody who you think is a peer, and you can totally lose the plot, and not understand that you are nothing like them in the first place, and it was never you versus anybody.

No one could possibly look all the time like my photographs. It is dreadfully hard to live up to them. They stare at me everywhere.

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

With Instagram and Twitter, you're constantly looking at other people and comparing yourself to them, and it's just not beneficial. There is always going to be someone skinnier or prettier or with better skin, and that same girl you're looking at is comparing herself to someone else.

I've been on 'Days' since I was 16, and being surrounded by such thin, gorgeous actresses made me so insecure and self-conscious.

Comparison is painful. Don't be cowed by other people's pretty pictures. When you feel unimpressive, or irrelevant, that has nothing to do with what you're actually capable of.

I grew up watching YouTube and it was tough feeling like everyone I watched had a perfect life. I couldn't help but feel that my life sucked when I watched their videos.

I always feel as if I'm a disappointment: that people want a grand dame in furs like Barbara Taylor Bradford.

I wanted to be like my friends. I hung out with girls who had blue eyes and blond hair and I thought, 'I want to look like them!'

Insecurity is a natural part of human nature, and there are times we feel our stories are not worth telling, so we turn to the people we admire for strength. If we dress like someone everyone thinks is cool, perhaps we'll be seen as cool.

I just don't like my face.

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

I'm never satisfied with the way I look.

If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful.

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!'

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

I am not too keen on my nose, I don't like my knees, I hate my ankles, I am unsure about my behind, I don't like my legs at all. I am not too sure about my chin, my forehead is a bit dodgy. But, overall, I can live with it.

I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off.

I was never my favourite subject.

I'm not a 'Twilight' boy; I'll never be as good looking as those lads, and that's fair enough.

It's tough being me.

If I'm honest I don't think the world would miss me if I never acted again.

I generally find that comparison is the fast track to unhappiness. No one ever compares themselves to someone else and comes out even. Nine times out of ten, we compare ourselves to people who are somehow better than us and end up feeling more inadequate.

I've had all types of beautiful girls tell me that they ugly when they look in the mirror, as if it's someone else's reflection they see.

I hated seeing myself on screen. I was full of complexes. I hated my face for a very, very long time.