Virginia Postrel Quotes

I have no issues with my identity.

People define themselves aesthetically at a very young age.

I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

I've never met anyone that is their image.

I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.

I know who I am by now. And I am my own brand.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

I've always had this identity thing. When I was little, I was always changing my handwriting because I couldn't decide which one I liked best.

When you have a lot of people telling you what you are and perceiving you in a certain way, it's difficult to find your own identity.

I'm a lot more interested in style than fashion - style is what makes us who we are.

I've never thought of myself as just an actor.

Quite often, I will do something and think, 'Oh, no, she looks a little too much like me.' I have tried to learn not to be afraid of that when that happens. I am not trying to obliterate myself and completely hide within the images like I used to.

When my hair is picked out, my whole aura is picked out, like, 'See this, see me.'

Everyone always said, 'When you're 10, you'll want to be Elizabeth, or when you're in college.' And every time, I was was just like, 'No, I'm Beanie. That's who I am.' So I love my name because I think it really suits me.

In real life, I feel tiny and quite embarrassed all the time. But when people come up to me in France and want to talk to Christine, it's okay. It's cool. Because they're really talking about themselves, their own Christines.

I know what my identity is.

I am an actor, and not a clothes hanger. I am more than just my clothes.

Style comes from knowing who you are and who you want to be in the world; it does not come from wanting to be somebody else, or wanting to be thinner, shorter, taller, prettier.

A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.

It'd be really nice to wake up looking like, I don't know, Jake Gyllenhaal and think, 'Let's try this on for a day and see how it feels.'

I don't think I'm beautiful. When I look in the mirror, I just see me - and, I'm pretty used to me.

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.

The thing that I like about being me is that everybody gets a different feeling from me.

I'm an outgoing girl, and I can't help the way I look.

Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.