Outer Self Quotes

I'm a much happier guy than a lot of people think I am.

Clothes are the way you present yourself to the world; they affect the way the world feels and thinks about you; subconsciously they affect the way you feel and think about yourself.

When I first began modeling, I was very conventional looking. I had hair down to my waist in a side parting - almost church-like. But beneath the sheath of hair lay this Amazonian, strong-looking frame.

The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.

God created us in such a way that our inner self is in the spiritual world and our outer self is in the physical world. This was so that the spiritual part of us, which belongs in heaven, could be planted in the physical part the way a seed is planted in the ground.

I'm probably a little shyer than people imagine.

High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.

It takes a lot of courage to be the same person on the outside that you are on the inside.

I think people perceive me completely differently than how I perceive myself. I see myself as a sweet, cosy, motherly type. We all want people to be more glamorous and daring and adventurous than they actually are.

If I could get their attention long enough, I felt they would see beneath the boobs and find the heart, and that they would see beneath the wig and find the brains. I think one big part of whatever appeal I possess is the fact that I look totally one way and that I am totally another. I look artificial, but I'm not.

I feel I've always been on the outside and always on the edge of an abyss. The women I portray, and the woman I am, are ordinary but maybe find themselves in extra-ordinary circumstances, and what they do is at great cost.

Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life.

By reshaping or decorating our outer selves, we express our inner sense of self: 'I like that' becomes 'I'm like that.'

A face is like the outside of a house, and most faces, like most houses, give us an idea of what we can expect to find inside.

When you look in the mirror, your 'appearance,' that outer you, is what you see first.

I was looking in the mirror the other day and I realized I haven't changed much since I was in my twenties. The only difference is I look a whole lot older now.

If our inner being was to be turned to the outside, and our outer being turned inward, we would appear with more wounds and diseases than the Prophet Job. For each sin that we commit and each doubt that enters our mind causes wounds in our heart and our spirit.

I'm not different. I'm not different at all. The wrapping is different but the gift is still the same.

If I looked in the mirror someday and saw no dark circles under my eyes, I would probably look better. I just wouldn't look like me.

Modelling asks you to be conscious of your outer self, but with acting, you have to let that go.

We're very physical creatures, and we worry about how we look sometimes more than our spiritual selves.

Well, I'm in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

[She] knew that it was not precisely a body that one loved. One loved the man who shone out through the eyes and used its mouth to smile and speak.

What we wear is the shell of who we are.

There are people who love you and people who hate you, but for me, more so, people only think they know me by how I act or perform on a tennis court.