Edmund White Quotes

I'm quite active and I try not to let the way I look be the main focus because it's not the most important thing.

What you look like doesn't matter as much as what you feel like. If you feel you look good, you look good. And I never felt that.

My whole life, I've been judged for how I look, which is part and parcel of being in the public eye, playing sexy roles and posing for lad's mags, but I want people to like me for my personality and brain.

We women should remember that we are much more than just breasts.

A person's self-esteem has nothing to do with how she looks.

There's not one person that I say I want to look like.

Sexuality, desirability has nothing to do with body type. It has to do with how you feel from within. I was at my fattest best in 'The Dirty Picture,' and I was called the most desirable. So there you go. I am quite well-endowed, so I have no complaints.

I'm happy that I have a look, but I don't over-analyse whether or not it's beautiful or ugly.

I mean, no one asks beauty secrets of me, or 'What size do you wear?' or 'Who's your couturier?' They ask me about really deep things and I love that.

I just think women should love themselves more than they do. Because I think - with all the social media stuff - we look at ourselves too much, and we just destroy ourselves when we're way cooler than we know.

I have a daughter, and it's a very bad message to send to my daughter that to be valid or accepted or to have value, you have to look a certain way. It's all about appearance, and not about education and not about contributing. I think we've completely lost our way.

I'm not a pin-up, thankfully. I'm not suggesting I feel unconfident. I am beautiful to my husband. I am beautiful to my friends. I feel sexy and all those things with the people I love.

I didn't appreciate the young woman that I was, or my young beauty, because I was so obsessed with the fact that I felt fat. It's never good to add to anybody else's suffering. It's an important topic to really get the gravity and the importance of - dealing with dignity.

Standards are a little crazy these days. I think that, when you go to sleep, as long as you're happy with the way you are and the way you look, that's the most important thing. I think it's an internal thing. As long as you feel good with who you are and comfortable with what you're wearing, but not if that's the most important thing.

Even though photographers are only shooting the outside, beauty is more about who you are as a person - the life you lead - not your facade.

I told my mom, 'I'm not buying another magazine until I can get past this thought of looking like the girl on the cover'. She said, "Miley, you are the girl on the cover,' and I was, like, 'I know, but I don't feel like that girl every day.' You can't always feel perfect.

My looks mean nothing to me. If anything, they are a hindrance.

I don't think I'm particularly beautiful at all.

It kind of cracks me up when people say I'm hot because I just think that that's a term that I don't have to deal with anymore.

When I was in my early 20s, I looked towards exterior things to make me feel sexy - guys, clothes, shoes, etc. Now it's all about how I feel internally.

I used to want to be tall, and then I thought, 'If I were tall, then people would say I was pretty and not cute.' And then I realized that there are worse things than being called cute.

You want your partner to objectify you.

You can feel like, 'I look really bad', but to other people you can be really gorgeous.

I'm not as beautiful as a model.

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.