Marina Abramovic Quotes

It's not like I cleaned up with girls. I always looked young and I was very small; I hated being 'cute.'

I had just started ninth grade when I got my acne. And I had braces. I wouldn't look people in the eye. It was not a good time for me - it just killed my self-esteem. I thought when I didn't look at someone, they couldn't see my face.

I was actually very ugly. I was ugly. I felt very insecure.

I never really considered myself attractive. I was always kind of gangly in school.

I went through awkward, chubby, total weirdo phases.

You know, I was not an attractive child - I never had a cute face.

I was not a good-lookin' girl. I was extremely skinny. I wasn't pretty. I wasn't cool.

I was skinny. I wore thick glasses. I had acne.

I was very insecure about my looks.

I wasn't the prettiest girl in class. No breasts, short legs, gangly teeth. I didn't think I was model material, that's for sure.

I was a bit of a late developer, and everyone was saying, 'Whatever you do, don't shave,' and I hadn't really started shaving. I remember rubbing the soot from a kettle on to my bumfluff to make it look more like I had a beard.

I had very bad acne growing up. I had braces for six years, from the fifth to the 11th grade. I didn't look in the mirror and feel like someone who should be on TV.

I don't think I am pretty. I think I'm quite strange-looking.

I was such a dork. I was too big. I was really gangly.

I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.

I always think I look like the Elephant Man - I can't get used to my own image.

I was blessed with blonde hair and a baby face - well, I don't know if you'd call that blessed - I don't even remember when I started shaving.

I would hate to meet myself at 15.

I don't like to look at myself in the mirror, which is why my eye makeup is always crooked.

I was a short, chubby kid, pretty shy.

For a long time, I did feel aware that I wasn't pretty or bubbly enough. Nor was I sexy-looking.

I didn't want to get that ring around my lips from practicing the trumpet, because I thought the girls wouldn't like me. So I never practiced.

It's funny, one of the reasons why I never wear my glasses any more is that, when I was younger, a guy once said that he liked me until he found out that I wear glasses.

I was terribly gawky, too goofy to become a high-kicking cheerleader, with stringy brown hair and bad posture. Definitely nobody noticeable!

I was always told I was ugly. I still think I am ugly. I know I've got an odd face and you can't tell me otherwise.