Tracey Emin Quotes

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.

I was never my favourite subject.

If I'm honest I don't think the world would miss me if I never acted again.

For a long time, I would go out of my way to have a personal appearance on the verge of an insane person, because it was closer to how I felt, but I looked so dumb. So, I just stopped. It was like, 'I'm just going to look like a banker.'

I see my face in the mirror and go, 'I'm a Halloween costume? That's what they think of 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.

I don't like catching myself in the mirror because it's like, 'Oh, self.'

When I was 16, I filmed an episode of 'Full House' where my family goes to Disney World. I remember putting on baggy overalls just to hide my stomach. When I watched it, I was pretty disappointed and bummed out looking at myself... I didn't feel good about my own body.

I was really involved with other people's opinions of me, and it got heightened during my film career. I don't have any opinion, good or bad about it, it just was. It's not the way I feel now, and I think yoga has a lot to do with that.

I don't think anything can help me socially, to be honest: I have this terrible personality. I don't really know how to describe it... maybe I'll go with surly.

Hopefully I don't annoy people too much.

My whole life, I've felt like I didn't quite measure up.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

It's really hard to see yourself and to recognize that you are a human being like everybody else. You just think everybody's judging you.

I hate to look at myself in a mirror, and I never go and see films.

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don't know who or what, maybe myself.

I am used to looking good. In a way, if I thought I looked like the back end of a bus, I probably wouldn't have done 'Strictly Come Dancing' and gone out there in public.

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.

Sometimes when I hear my voice on tape, I'm like, 'Who is that horrible man?'

We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.

I wasn't always this introverted.

As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.

I think that you can take things personally or get hurt feelings as a result of something not working out just because your psyche said it should or you deserve it, or whatever it is.

Any description of a person that comes from the outside is very hard to deal with. People don't like being summarised. It's nice to receive a compliment, but it makes me feel a bit uncomfortable.

It's tough being me.