Jon Cryer Quotes

I have been a big guy all my life, I am not going to lose a bunch of weight, because then you're like that weird fat person that got skinny but still has a big head. I don't want to do that. So I'm just trying.

I like myself a lot more than I used to. I had a very difficult time in my twenties especially. It was hard for me to look in the mirror and find something that I liked about myself.

When I was modelling, I spent half my life staring at thousands of perfect reflections. It got to a stage where I was losing all sense of reality - so after I quit modelling, I took all the mirrors out of my house.

I think there's so much feeling among young girls where they feel like they have to be this perfect thing - and they don't. Perfect people don't exist. Sometimes people need to be told it.

My life is full of drama, and I don't have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like.

I do not think about being beautiful. What I devote most of my time to is being healthy.

My life has changed. I'm not walking around any more wishing I wasn't me, which was the case at one time.

For a long time, I would go out of my way to have a personal appearance on the verge of an insane person, because it was closer to how I felt, but I looked so dumb. So, I just stopped. It was like, 'I'm just going to look like a banker.'

I think - I think you have a conscience growing up in a loving family with a nurturing community. And I think what happens is, and that's part of the problem of being in the closet which is a very sick place. I mean it's self loathing. It's self denial. And you keep that separate.

I don't look like Halle Berry. But chances are she's going to end up looking like me.

Whether straight, gay, bi, trans... body image and identity can be a struggle for us all.

There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed.

For a long time after childhood ended and before I expressed my femininity through androgyny, I really didn't like looking in the mirror much because I just felt like I wasn't attractive.

I was pursuing my acting career, but I was silent on the LGBT issue, the issue that was closest to me. I knew if I came out then, I'd have had to change careers.

I really just want to change the way women think about themselves. A lot of young girls are quite lost.

These past six years, people have seen me as a woman, not a transsexual. People in the gym, people I train with, it's been great, it's been awesome. I'm just a woman to them. I don't want that to go away. It's unfortunate that it has to.

I think being a teenager is a difficult journey in and of itself, but being transgender makes it that much harder.

I faced innumerable rejections and resorted to surgery to improve my looks and appearance.

At the end of the day, we all have issues with our bodies.

I definitely did not like my body when I first started sports. I didn't like my body just in general as a teenager. Being a girl and a teenager with two prosthetic legs and two hands that were misshapen that had so much reconstructive surgery on them, I thought my world was over - put a zit on top of that, and then my life is completely over.

I am pretty honest about a lot of things that young girls question, like their body image.

I feel like I have a healthy self-esteem.

I'm searching, as we all are, for ways to feel good about myself. Certainly, looking in the mirror doesn't do it!

I know growing up as a young gay person how much you hate yourself, how much you already think you're different.

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.'