Jimmy Somerville Quotes

I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one's door.

I used to think I was ugly because I was the baby.

I've always been very insecure and had a lot of self-doubt growing up. That was partially because of how I was raised.

No matter where you are, the root of you is designed from a young age. So if my confidence was taken as a child, you can gain back a lot of the confidence, but that root of the cavity will still be there.

I was fortunate to have had a lively, happy childhood, but somewhere along the way I convinced myself I wasn't wanted anywhere or by anyone if I wasn't thin.

When I was younger, I was chubby. It gave me a terrible sense of self-image, and I guess I carry that around with me still.

I was told my whole life, you're fat, you're ugly, you're never going to amount to be anything.

Part of my evolution has been to learn how painful most people's childhoods are. They grow up not liking themselves, not loving themselves. Ask people if they were lovable the minute they were born, and watch them sit back and have to think about it. One lady said, 'I suppose so.' That's painful.

My boyfriend calls me 'princess', but I think of myself more along the lines of 'monkey' and 'retard'.

I grew up feeling like the ugly duckling, and things have not changed that much.

I grew up as a child who felt she was very inferior to everyone else.

I'm not sure I'm very confident at all. There was a lot of my life when I thought I was fundamentally unlovable.

I was very unsure of myself when I was young and an ugly little beggar with protruding teeth, so I used to lie on them at night to try to straighten them.

Low self-esteem comes from who you assess yourself to be. It's about who you are, and I didn't think I was anything or anybody.

I don't like my physique. Who does? I was a skinny guy growing up, and I still feel like that same skinny kid.

Mirabelle is not affected by a man’s failures to approach her, as her own self-depreciating attitude never allows the idea that he would in the first place.

I grew up thinking I was inferior to white-skinned people. And as a child if you are conditioned like this, it becomes a part of your upbringing that you believe that probably because I look like this, I won't get anywhere in life.

I was really self conscious as a kid, I felt terrible - like a prisoner in my own body.

Of course, after like, three or four years of being called a loser and putting on bad suits and having the sweat and all that stuff put on me, it does start to get to you after a while.

I was made to believe there's something wrong with me.

For a long time, I let my mother say what she wanted about me, and what was worse, for a long time I believed her.

It is habit for me to discount myself before somebody else does it for me. Better to get in the first lick

I feel like I'm the worst, so I always act like I'm the best.

I hate my voice. I've never been comfortable singing.

Seems like the only one who doesn't see your beauty is the face in the mirror looking back at you.