Jessie Matthews Quotes

When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.

I get insecure about a lot of things. In my line of work, unfortunately, your appearance is important, and I'm always like, 'Am I going to the gym enough this month? Have I been taking care of myself?' I get insecure about things from time to time.

I'm not that good looking.

Yes, and I had pimples so badly it used to make me so shy. I used not to look at myself. I'd hide my face in the dark, I wouldn't want to look in the mirror and my father teased me and I just hated it and I cried everyday.

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

I'm not going to lie: I still have days when I walk by the mirror on my way to the shower and think, 'Oh God, I didn't just see that!'

I don't like to look at myself in the mirror, which is why my eye makeup is always crooked.

I always thought I was sort of awkward and goofy-looking. I'm still kind of gangly.

I always doubted myself. I doubted the way I looked, my body, my voice - everything.

I just can't stand the sound of my voice sometimes, or how my face looks. There are always a few times at every premiere when I just have to cover my eyes when I'm up there.

I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger', and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.

When the eyes are on you for the first time, you can't believe that people aren't criticising you.

People think I'm goofy. I don't have that Angelina Jolie air to me. I wish that I did, and that's an insecurity of mine.

I am insecure. Everyone's insecure.

Sometimes, I don't even want to put on makeup. And sometimes, I feel so unattractive and blah.

I feel uncomfortable because I'm insecure about who I am.

Countries are like adolescent entering a dance ... they're sure everybody is thinking about nothing but their inadequacies.

I didn't think my face was beautiful. I guess I found a lot wrong with it.

I'm self-conscious about a lot of things.

I didn't want to be looked at. I remember when I was six or seven asking my mom why people were looking at me. She said, 'They're looking at you because you're a beautiful little girl.' But I didn't believe her. And yet I put myself in a business where people have to look at you. I think I learnt to block it out.

I was incredibly self-conscious about the way I looked.

I don't even like getting my picture taken because I feel terrible about the way I look. I'm so self-conscious about things.

I've always thought I'm pretty ugly.

I get really self-conscious about people staring at me. It sounds so weird. As a performer, as an artist, these should be the things that I'm used to. But that's not the case. When people stare at me, I freak out.

I hope people don't get tired of looking at me.