Sheila Heti Quotes

If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.

If it was up to me, I would just wear jeans and t-shirts, even to red carpets, but then no one would photograph me, so that would make me very sad. So you know, I've gotta keep up with the rest of the female population and sometimes try a little harder.

I always feel as if I'm a disappointment: that people want a grand dame in furs like Barbara Taylor Bradford.

It's a little dangerous for me to get outside myself and think about how I want people to see me.

I like talking. I didn't know at the time I would have to worry so much about my hair.

We're all just trying to fit in and find ourselves, particularly when we're growing up.

If I wear make-up, then people recognise me, but the rest of the time, no one really bothers.

There are people who love you and people who hate you, but for me, more so, people only think they know me by how I act or perform on a tennis court.

I used to be more self-conscious about style because when you're younger, you want to exist, you want to show everything you do.

There's more to me than fashion. I just don't want to be seen as fashion.

I always wonder if what I'm wearing will be something that people would compliment, or want to wear. I don't ever get ready just for myself, ever.

I noticed that I got a better space in the line in Starbucks when I had my tattoo. People associate tattoos with a certain edge. Then I open my mouth, and something completely different comes out.

When I was younger, the pressure was just being cool. I never thought of myself as a cool guy. I always thought of myself as more of the goofy guy.

What bothers you isn't so much whether you're beautiful or not. What bothers you is the way that people stare.

My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.

I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.

I'm such a girly-girl! I don't know why people don't see that.

Pat Phoenix kept that amazing sassy look. I always wonder, was that because she was thrilled with that look, and thought it looked marvellous, or was it because she was too scared to change it? It's a double thing. Security and insecurity.

At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you.

When you're not blond and thin, you come up with a personality real quick.

I have this fear of coming across as a Barbie doll who got lucky. Style is a big part of who I am, but it's not who I am. Ya know?

I don't want to be too cool. You get so caught up with whether you're doing it right.

I'm still figuring out why people would want to look at me. Maybe it's generic beauty, but it's weird to be valued for something I was born with.

I hope people don't think I'm crazy, because I'm not.

I think it really holds you back having to think about your image.