Katharine McPhee Quotes

I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.

I really love being a redhead. Even though it's not my natural colour, it makes me feel more like myself.

I happen to be in a line of work where I get given lots of clothes, and I definitely think it's fun, but I know that, ultimately, fashion is not that important. I use fashion, though, as a way of thinking about who I am.

I am my best self when I have super short hair. That’s when I feel most like me and most confidant.

I don't mean to sound like a cheap prostitute, but you can call me what you like.

I don't wear much make-up in my non-working life, though I love to dress up and put on a face for a special occasion. As I get older, I see less of the fantasy 'Indian' self I inherited from my father, and I see my mother looking back at me.

When I was younger, my father told me not to pigeonhole the way that I perceive myself.

I love changing what I look like because I always feel super strange whenever I do watch something that I'm in.

Style is the instrument you can pick back up when you want to regain some of the confidence you've lost.

It's fun to be a girl, and get dressed up, but that's not how I really am.

I love being super-tough, but if I need to put on a dress and do my hair and makeup, I can do that, too.

People often expect me to be something other than what I am.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

I've realized that Evanescence is who I am.

My appearance has changed a lot over the years, but it has far more to do with how I feel about being a woman.

Everybody has their own story - it's who you are. If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am!

When you put on something that you really like, you feel like you are that person or the person you want to be.

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.

I define myself.

You don't have to look like a warrior in every role.

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.

'Nimona' is about identity and if who you are is defined by what you look like. It's not a book about body image at all, but I would be lying if I said that wasn't in there even at the conception of it.

I feel like makeup is a part of me, but it's not who I am completely.

The very first time I buzzed my head, I was 21 - I'd had short hair since I was 14 - I just remember it was, like, 2 in the morning, and I just was like, 'I really want to do it. I want to see what I look like and what my head shape is.'

I wanted to show everyone that I can be... romantic one day. I can be sexy the other day. I can be crazy. I can be serious. I can be boss. I can be feminist, and I still don't lose my way to be, you know?