Ines de La Fressange Quotes

It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

I see myself as most people see themselves, you have good days and bad days. I don't think I'm better looking now than I did three years ago.

In 1985, I saw a tape of myself where my eyes were puffy. I looked very tired and bedraggled and not as youthful as I would like to have been.

I've looked at myself on screen and thought, 'Oh, that's what I look like, I'm not 26 any more.'

With my grey hair and workaholic attitude, I can't imagine being hot by any standard.

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

I hate watching myself. It's terrible. It's horrifying.

I've looked in the mirror every day for 20 years. It's the same face.

At a certain point you stop looking at your features, at what you don't look like. You start looking at lines and signs of fatigue rather than at the shape of your mouth.

I love pretty things; and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn't pretty. It makes me feel so sorrowful—just as I feel when I look at any ugly thing. I pity it because it isn't beautiful.

You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.

I know everyone hates when I say this, they think it's a cliché, but if you don't feel good in the bathing suit you're not going to look good. Confidence is really important.

You can't hate/love others without loving/hating yourself first.

I do not consider myself a teddybear. Just to be clear, I don't feel sorry for myself.

Don't you dare call me arrogant!If ever I had any at all-which I deny!- how much could I possibly have left after having been ridden over rough-shod by you and Thomas, do you imagine?

There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world.

I don't like having my picture taken and I don't like looking at myself because I don't particularly like what I see.

I wonder if the course of narcissism through the ages would have been any different had Narcissus first peered into a cesspool. He probably did.

I am very critical! I hate watching myself but I know I have to because I'm going to be asked so I need to have some sort of semblance of what the films with me are like. But it's not an enjoyable experience watching yourself. I hate it less than I used to but I still don't enjoy it.

Normally I can't watch myself at all, and watching myself makes me cringe, and I cover my face, and it's very hard to watch.

A frowning face can't bring out the beauty that you are.

When you're an actor, seeing yourself for the first time, you spend all your time just watching yourself and hating yourself and picking your performance apart. You say, "I look horrible. I should quit."

I can't get used to the fact that I'm 68 years old. I still feel like a youngster. I am playing a part even older than 68 - 71 years old. It's kind of startling to see myself in a movie and realize, "Yup. That's exactly what I look like."

I think I'm a pretty cliché actor in that I hate watching myself on film. I don't know why it should be humbling to see yourself on film.

If you're upset with how you look at 25, life's going to be tough.