Prunella Scales Quotes

I had a very hard time accepting myself as a character actress because I wanted to be glamorous and a leading lady like everybody else. I looked in the mirror and thought I looked pretty good, but casting didn't ever see me that way.

I'm certainly not shy, but I like playing it because I love those characters that are incredibly confident but really still a mess.

I am an insecure person. I have my own insecurities about lots of things, but I am pretty secure as an actor.

I have never felt that I am a star. It never came to my mind.

I don't think I'm very cool as a person. I'm just better than anyone else at acting cool.

If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.

Well, I don't think I'm good-looking... I know people who are good-looking, and I'm not good-looking.

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.

If I get dressed up, and my boyfriend says, 'You look gorgeous,' I kinda feel funny. I don't know if I'm particularly comfortable with being attractive.

I didn't want to be looked at. I remember when I was six or seven asking my mom why people were looking at me. She said, 'They're looking at you because you're a beautiful little girl.' But I didn't believe her. And yet I put myself in a business where people have to look at you. I think I learnt to block it out.

I don't agree that I have a lot of confidence.

I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be 'sexy,' even before I knew what the word was.

Using words to make other people less big made me feel bigger, though the psychological dimension to that... well, I don't want to explore it.

When you're playing someone who has a strong ego about themselves, you can't play them when you have the opposite opinion of the one they have of themselves.

I never had a lot of confidence in myself.

I have my insecurities, and some days you don't want to be photographed. You notice all of your flaws even if others don't notice them. Photo shoots also feel very vain because it's all about you and your looks and your face. I feel I work better on camera.

I still consider myself a little, fat kid from Hawaii.

I think you have to kind of feel like you're pretty handsome and cool to be able to step into an audition for some kind of lead hero, and that's just not how I look.

I like to play the guy that has no self-awareness.

I felt like my career started late, and I think it was because of my height - and maybe some of my confidence issues.

There was a little of this, 'Oh, you're such a sweet girl!' That's a wonderful thing to have in life; I don't mind it at all for life. But I remember, the first role I was ever cast in as a not-so-sweet-girl, I was so happy.

When I was 18, and my looks were what I was - and all that I was - it did feel very limiting.

I always felt like my value was much more in my intellect than it was in my appearance, and so that's what I spent time cultivating. And some of that I get from my mother, some of that comes from the schools that I went to, and some of that comes from probably insecurity.

There were times that I thought I was good looking.

I'm not too secure about my looks. They can always change.