Iman Quotes

I don't play the ugly game, I think everyone is beautiful and I see it in me now more and more.

Women who start out as ugly ducklings don't become beautiful swans. What they mainly become is confident ducks. They take charge of their lives.

I'm proud that today, at 43 years old, I've come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty.

Having inner beauty is something you develop on your own, and I like to think I have that.

There are no makeovers in my books. The ugly duckling does not become a beautiful swan. She becomes a confident duck able to take charge of her own life and problems.

It's important to talk about loving yourself and looking at your tragedies and the stuff that makes you grow.

I would say Will came at a time in my life where he saw beauty in me that I didn't see in myself at the time. And, you know, he saw a diamond in the rough and kind of, picked me up and blew off all the dust and said, 'I'm telling you, I'm going to make you shine, girl.'

I am a big believer in life in this fact: Scars are a very beautiful thing.

Everything I was told should be my greatest insecurities and weaknesses, everything that I've been labeled - short, nerdy, skinny, weak, impulsive, ugly, tomboy, poor, rebel, loud, freak, crazy - turned out to be my greatest strengths. I didn't become successful in spite of them. I became successful because of them.

The lead character in 'Adaptation' is pretty much me but with more talent. Every time I watch 'Adaptation,' I feel very emotional because it makes me be kinder to myself and see the human situation a little more clearly.

I'm happy to be told that I am beautiful, but I don't gain anything from that.

Beauty comes from the inside.

I was bullied and picked on because I was so different to everyone else, and I definitely didn't believe or even know I was fabulous back then. But those hard times made me everything I am today. It's all water under the bridge now, but being bullied and going through adversity definitely made me stronger.

We all have our imperfections. But I'm human, and you know, it's important to concentrate on other qualities besides outer beauty.

I don't believe anyone is ugly.

I think everybody should focus on inner beauty.

Have the pride of the brown girl and know that you'll figure out your own beauty in time.

It's taken me a long time to become the person I am, for all the ugliness to fall away. The rotten flesh is gone, and the seed is there. I can touch that now.

With yourself, I think you have to decide the kind of person that you really want to be, and for me, it's just a sweet girl.

Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one's self.

Fans always tell me I'm beautiful, but no one will ever be as beautiful as them.

I mean, no one asks beauty secrets of me, or 'What size do you wear?' or 'Who's your couturier?' They ask me about really deep things and I love that.

It used to hurt when people ran down my films. I used to feel inferior. I wouldn't go to parties or award functions because my cinema is not considered good enough. But now I keep my head high, and I am proud of what I am doing.

I didn't appreciate the young woman that I was, or my young beauty, because I was so obsessed with the fact that I felt fat. It's never good to add to anybody else's suffering. It's an important topic to really get the gravity and the importance of - dealing with dignity.

That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves, I could try and find it in me.