Michael Leunig Quotes

With women, the way they look... it's the core of their self-esteem.

I think I can be relatively attractive when I dress up, but I'm not Julia Roberts or Catherine Zeta Jones.

I've lived with myself for a very long time, so I'm aware of what I look like. I'm under no false pretense that I'm a stunner, so if somebody comes up and says something about my physical appearance, it's okay.

If I were old, fat and ugly, I don't know if anybody would be interested in me.

I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.

I was naturally skinny and had braces, so I wasn't a cute model.

You're either sexy or you're not. I'm very self-conscious about my physiognomy.

I'm not like a gorgeous bombshell or anything like that.

I feel I'm such a big part of that insecurity that some girls might have because of my job, that girls think they have to be that picture. And even boys, they think that that picture exists, and it's so frustrating because I don't look like that picture - I wake up not looking like that picture.

In high school, everyone told me I had a great personality and sense of humor, but I wanted to be the girl who boys liked because she was pretty on top of being funny. I was boy crazy.

The pressure to look good is intense. It is hard to be immune to that and the self-consciousness that comes with it.

I think that people put a lot of worth into looks. Unfortunately, there's a standard that so many people look up to that is unrealistic for everyone's body type.

I am not an insecure person at heart, but I am also aware that I am not as good looking as an actress is expected to be.

I'm not the ugliest guy in the world.

I do feel pressure to look good. But that's just not going to happen, because I have a double chin, and I can't pose. It's such a struggle.

Everybody knows that I'm not the most beautiful woman in the world.

I think, even before social media, it was really hard to not look at other classmates and say, 'Well I wish I looked like her.' Or even to look at celebrities and wish that 'I looked like them.'

I know I was not the hottest chick at school!

Self-esteem can be so exhausting. I want to cut my hair, change my clothes, erase the pimple from the near-tip of my nose, and strengthen my upper-arm definition, all in the next hour.

I cancel going out if my hair doesn't look good.

Looking good has never been the most important thing to me. Maybe it's because I'm more conventionally, um, acceptable, so it's not an issue for me. I don't know.

A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't.

I am insecure... because I have to think about what I look like every day.

I'm not that good looking.

As a kid I had buck teeth and braces and acne. I hated what I saw. I'm still not comfortable, but that's why I change and adapt the way I look.