Curt Smith Quotes

Everybody thinks I am a narcissist. I am actually the opposite of that.

I think comedy comes more from a low sense of self-esteem, and I certainly have that.

I worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I'd want to kick my own ass.

I was never my favourite subject.

I can only see my limitations. That's just who I am.

I'm not that interesting of a person.

I avoid looking in the mirror.

It's impossible not to constantly adjust the way you look at yourself.

I'm still just a loud-mouth girl from Michigan. I thought I might've grown out of that, but people are always reminding me that I haven't.

I can't see myself as others see me.

I can't look at the mirror beyond two minutes. I don't know what to look at. What is the point of looking at yourself? You can't change your face.

Unfortunately, at the end of the day, when you watch yourself on the screen, you are always you.

What the heck did people see in me?

The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.

The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original.

If I were somebody else looking at my character, I'd be like, "She's beautiful." I'm practicing. I'm not succeeding.

He had an opinion of himself, I think, that was too high for his own good. Or maybe it was the reverse. Maybe it was a low opinion that he kept trying to erase.

I think that deprecation part is a very important aspect because when someone looks into themselves, if they're going to be honest, they're going to see parts that are humiliating as well as parts that they might feel really great about. Take Lucas Samaras again, who made a lot of self-portraits. He makes one self-portrait where he is looking directly into the camera and looks so intense and cool. He says in an interview, "I wanted to present the best version of myself."

People can very quickly have a very poor self-image. It doesn't take much.

The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.

I understand what it feels like not to like aspects of yourself. There have been times that I have felt really terrible about the way I look. I have the seed of that feeling.

It's a little dangerous for me to get outside myself and think about how I want people to see me.

We have to really educate ourselves in a way about who we are, what our real identity is.

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.

If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful.