Carole Bouquet Quotes

I'm not that good looking.

Okay, I am happy with the way I look, but I have never, never, ever thought of myself as a 'pretty girl.' Honestly. When I read some of these scripts I'm sent, and they describe the heroine as 'incredibly beautiful,' I wonder why they sent it to me.

I was naturally skinny and had braces, so I wasn't a cute model.

I know I was not the hottest chick at school!

I think that most actors don't have very good opinions of themselves.

We have no faith in ourselves. I have never met a woman who, deep down in her core, really believes she has great legs. And if she suspects that she might have great legs, then she's convinced that she has a shrill voice and no neck.

I'm not as beautiful as a model.

I'm not a beautiful person and I never have been.

Girls pour their insecurities into their looks.

It's never enjoyable watching yourself. Because you're never as good looking as you hope you are. You're not expecting to be Penelope Cruz... but I'm a female of the species. I have my hang-ups and all of that.

I didn't consider myself to be pretty, not at all.

We see these cute, perfect bombshells that make me feel like I'm not good enough, I'm not pretty enough. I don't think I could pull off playing a person like that, and do I want to? I don't know.

People think I'm goofy. I don't have that Angelina Jolie air to me. I wish that I did, and that's an insecurity of mine.

No, I'm not good looking.

Women always want to be what they're not: If you're the pretty girl, you want to be the quirky girl. If you're the smart girl, you want to be the pretty girl.

If I were old, fat and ugly, I don't know if anybody would be interested in me.

But as a young model, I never felt as beautiful as I looked.

I'm ugly.

No, I never ever considered myself attractive.

Go out and face the world secure in the knowledge that everybody else thinks they are better looking than they are as well.

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.

The pressure to look good is intense. It is hard to be immune to that and the self-consciousness that comes with it.

I am not an insecure person at heart, but I am also aware that I am not as good looking as an actress is expected to be.

Everybody knows that I'm not the most beautiful woman in the world.

When I first started doing screen work, I thought, 'I'm not beautiful enough for this profession - all the actresses I watch on screen are gorgeous and beautiful goddesses, but I'm just a scrawny, scruffy girl from southwest London.'