Iman Quotes

I'm not a great beauty. That's not me.

I'm very open about the fact that it's nice when someone says you're pretty. Especially for someone like me.

I don't think I'm boring.

If I am not grotesque, I am nothing.

I think I am a star - I'm simply a funny-shaped star.

When I was 15, I didn't think I was the prettiest at all. But then something happened when I was 20-something - I thought, actually, I really like what I look like. Just because I don't look like everybody else doesn't mean that I can't be just as beautiful.

When someone tells me that I'm not real, I say to them, 'Well, what about me isn't real?' I have not changed my figure. This is who I am.

I know who I am and I know who I'm not. I'm different, yes, and I am big. But I love who I am.

I have read a lot about what I am and who I am: 'mini,' a copy, simply 'more of the same.' Dear delegates, I stand before you as I am and as life made me and I am proud of that.

The last thing I want to think of myself as is anything different.

I complained to my mother about wanting to look less like myself and more like my friends. My mother then gave me a lesson in embracing my differences and loving them despite what others said.

I am not someone who throws around the word 'self-esteem.' It is a fictional description.

You don't need people to tell you how beautiful you are on there.

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

I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.

Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.

I was never an ambitious girl, or even a self-confident one. I never went in for beauty pageants or wore a stitch of make-up until I went to Los Angeles.

I've spent my whole life being told I have a face like a horse. You are just what you are, aren't you?

I've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.

I wish they would only take me as I am.

It used to bother me - having bigger, fuller brows. I even plucked them once so I'd fit in, but I hated them and couldn't wait for them to grow back. Now I embrace them. I realized the quirky things that make you different are what make you beautiful.

Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.

I'm not that beautiful, and I don't want to be a pop star.

I'm no pin-up.

Why in the world would anyone want to photograph an old woman like me?