Celebrity Quotes
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ALICIA KEYS- Here's what Alicia said about her struggles with acne: "It felt crazy. When you're in high school, somebody might say something [about acne] and hurt your feelings. Well, imagine the entire world looking at you, constantly scrutinizing your face. I felt really hurt. I knew that you shouldn't base your [self-esteem] on your physical appearance, so I tried to convince myself that I shouldn't worry about it, but inside I felt like everyone was attacking me. It wasn't easy at all, but I finally realized that I'm beautiful on the inside regardless of a couple bumps here and there. Who Cares?" Source: Nov '05 TeenPeople In the Oct '05 issue of Allure she said about society prizing thin legs, ".....I have big everything on the bottom but I love my legs. You've got to love what's yours." |
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ADAM BRODY- in the May '05 issue of Teenpeople said when asked about what his biggest flaw was said, "The biggest one is that I don't think I'm ever quite enough" In the July '05 issue of Cosmopolitan, he said, "I've been turned down by girls I've approached more times than I care to admit." |
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PAUL WALKER- when asked what kind of girls he likes in the Oct '05 issue of Cosmogirl, Paul said, "I like people who are positive. Not in a naive way. It's got to be cemented in reality and you've got to know what's going on. But to choose to take it and spin it and flip it and to remain positive and have a good outlook on things. I think that's really attractive. Spontaneity, too, is really attractive. Responsibility is good, but you've still got to be willing to drop and go." |
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AMANDA BYNES- "Way too many girls think they aren't good enough, and they end up losing their virginity to gross guys. Know how good you are. Be more sure of yourself. I think a lot of girls don't realize until they're older, like, 'Wow, I wasn't that bad.'" Source: Oct '05 Cosmogirl |
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JASON MRAZ- in the Oct '05 issue of Ellegirl, Jason talks about being a nerd in high school. He asked a girl out once and she said, "But, Jason, you're such a dork!" Jason's advice: "Don't attempt to be someone you're not. By the time everyone's done trying to be cool, you're left with two people who aren't really compatible in the first place. It's the nerds who are gonna grow up to be in the really successful, small bands and to run their own companies. Because nerds don't get as much attention from girls when they're younger, they respect it more." |
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LINDSAY LOHAN- in the August '05 issue of Teenpeople, Lindsay's advice to teenage girls who have been through real life Mean Girls situations ... "Just ignore it or be really nice [when they're mean to you], because if you're mean, it's just going to make things more difficult-people will feed off that. The more mature you are about the situation and the more you let it go, the easier it is to just be happy with yourself. Just exude confidence and surround yourself with people who aren't going to be like that. [Even] if there are negative people, you don't want negative energy around you. Life's too short." |
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SEANN WILLIAM SCOTT- "I tend to go for women with common sense. Being down-to-earth stands out more than physical looks." Source: August '05 Cosmopolitan |
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MISTI TRAYA- "I have seriously unruly curls. To make matters worse, I was born in Hawaii, where humidity is not a curly-headed person's friend. Now I've learned how to manage my curls or blow them straight. These days, I think I have the best hair in the world because I've learned how versatile it can be." |
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ZOOEY DESCHANEL- "I think every year I become happier because I become more comfident and more comfortable in my own skin." Source: June '05 Cosmopolitan |
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JESSE METCALFE, from the hit series, Desperate Housewives, said in the November 29, '04 issue of US Weekly, "I like a girl who is confident, intelligent, likes to have fun, is open to experiencing new things and is into music." |
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KEIRA KNIGHTLEY, in the December '04 issue of TWIST said, "I think I always disappoint people, because they always expect someone very pretty. Very done. There's so much pressure to be thin, blonde and busty. I'm skinny, but even I couldn't fit into some of the clothese there (in L.A.)!" In a funny kind of way, I think you create it yourself. I think it's much better to go with the flow and embrace your body, whatever shape it is, and just be happy." When asked what's her type-charming Keira said: 'What I look for in a guy is that, if he can make me laugh, it doesn't matter what he looks like. Humor and talent are such attractive qualities." |
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KELLY CLARKSON- when asked if she ever had low self-esteem Kelly said, ".....In junior high, I had glasses and braces, my face was broken out and I was chubby. Everything was bad! I begged my mom for contacts. We didn't have much money, but she finally set me up to get some. It's little things like contacts that help people feel more comfortable inside and out. I finally didn't have to worry about glares on stage or about my glasses slipping when I played sports." The reporter asked Kelly if there was anything else that helped her feel more comfortable in her own skin. She said, ".....I was always involved and always doing stuff. I did sports, drama, choir and I was also in senior council. Exercise and staying active always makes me feel great." They also asked her if her self-esteem suffered when she watched herself on TV during American Idol. She said, "I'm petite but I was the biggest girl on my season-everyone else weighed 100 pounds. Reporters would ask,'So what's it like being a big girl?' and I thought, 'Big? What?" It was like, 'Wait, what am I doing wrong?' Luckily, I had a great mom and dad who helped me grow up feeling comfortable in my own skin. I have a curvy figure, which guys like. And performing isn't about looking the best or being the most beautiful. I do it because I love it. Look, nobody else has my butt. Nobody has my eyes. Nobody has my nose. It's all mine. And that's what makes me different from everyone." Source: TWIST magazine September '04 |
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JESSE McCARTNEY- "When I got to high school, I was very thrown by the change and I did a lot of things to fit in. You know, partying and driving fast to impress people. It was all fun and games until the night my friend was in a car accident. He was partying just like us and riding in fast cars just like us. But he was killed. Suddenly I saw everything differently. I realized I was doing things I didn't want to do to please other people. I said to myself, 'This is not right. I don't need to please anybody. I need to make sure what I'm doing is right in my eyes and in God's eyes.' After that, I totally did not care what anyone thought of me. And guess what? I started making lots more friends than when I was doing the wrong things to be popular and cool. For the first time in my life, I had lots of real friends just by being myself." |
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MARIAH CAREY, in the June 5 issue of Parade, said, "It's embarrassing to say, 'I felt really ugly in school today. My hair was in knots.' You grow up looking at Sixteen Candles and wanting to be the popular girl. You look at the other kids and think, 'Where do I fit?' I felt like an outcast. The fear, the sense of inadequacy, the feeling of not being fully accepted-I felt all of that." |
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HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN, in the June issue of IN STYLE, said, "I like a girl who doesn't put style before comfort. I like natural, unmade-up look - a girl who is comfortable not only in her clothes but in her own skin." |
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KIRSTEN DUNST- "I have hips, I have boobs, I have a butt. It's good to be thoughtful of what goes in your mouth. I love desserts-I don't have them every day. I work out when it feels good-not so I can look like a stick. When people try so hard to be skinny, it's not pretty to me. Being comfortable with yourself is the sexiest thing." |
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RYAN REYNOLDS, in the Oct '05 issue of Jane, Ryan said when asked if he was fat in high school ... "I was one of those kids where all I wanted to do was gain weight--I was such a noodle. And I was extremely self-conscious about that." He also said, ".....in school, all I wanted to do was disappear, and on film, all I wanted to do was be seen. So I remember I used to buy clothes for school that would be the least distinctive and allow me to disappear." |
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BRITTANY MURPHY, in the September issue of Seventeen, Brittany Murphy said
about Eminem's song, 'Lose Yourself,' ... "See, this song is a really important song. He says you can do anything
you want to do in this life. And it's true. You can. You can make any one of your dreams come true. I have all the
faith in the world in myself!" She also said ..."Being picked on for being too skinny is as detrimental to self-esteem
as being picked on for being overweight. I think the most important thing is whatever you've got, be proud of it. As
long as you're healthy, no matter what size you are, there's a way to be happy with who you are."
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ASHTON KUTCHER, in the June 2004 issue of In Style magazine, Ashton Kutcher is quoted
as saying ".....Modeling is a performance. Your job is to make the clothes look good. You have to go out there with a confidence
that you may not have. So it is a kind of acting. I'm not naturally one of those guys who's like, Look at me, I'm sexy! I never
had a girlfriend until my senior year of high school."
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KIRSTEN DUNST- "I have hips, I have boobs, I have a butt. It's good to be thoughtful of what goes in your mouth. I love desserts-I don't have them every day. I work out when it feels good-not so I can look like a stick. When people try so hard to be skinny, it's not pretty to me. Being comfortable with yourself is the sexiest thing." |
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SETH GREEN, who plays Scott Evil in the Austin Powers movies and Oz on Buffy the Vampire Slayer said in the cool book Got Issues Much? ? "I'm five feet four inches now and as you can guess, I've always been short. Shorter than most of the boys in my class and shorter even than some of the girls. That became glaringly apparent early on, because I was also a year accelerated, in with kids a year older than I. So not only was I the smallest, I was also the youngest. To the other kids, I also had a funny name. They'd call me Death instead of Seth. It didn't help that I didn't play athletics at school." |
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JESSICA SIMPSON, in the August '05 issue of Twist, said, "I didn't start feeling comfortable in my own skin until I was 20. I just had so much build up and so many clogged pores. As a celebrity, fans expect to see something perfect in person, and when they come face-to-face with you - without airbrushing - and you have acne problems, it's embarrassing. If you're a bit overweight you can wear a baggy sweatshirt and feel better about yourself, but skin is a huge part of your self-esteem. It's something you can't hide. Natural beauty is really happiness with who you are. If you like who you are on the inside, that'll come through on the outside." In the June '05 issue of Cosmopolitan, Jessica said, "You're never going to look perfect to yourself even if you might look perfect to somebody else. The thing I've had to learn the most is to accept compliments and steer away from all the negativity. I mean there were [magazine] covers of me saying that I was anorexic! That my ribs were sticking out! Yeah, my ribs are sticking out. My ribs stuck out before. I have a huge rib cage, which is why I can hold a note until I'm blue in the face...because I have such a huge lung capacity. I've learned that it's okay to have big dreams and not be embarrassed and apologize for it. Everyone should go after their passions. And be positive towards others' dreams as well as their own. A lot of people can feel shy about what they really want to do, and it did take a while for me to say, 'You know what? I do want to do this |
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NICK LACHEY, in the December '04 issue of Cosmopolitan says, "We're really self-conscious about our flaws. My nose is big...it looks like a potato. And I used to have bad skin. I still don't have great skin, but I used to break out a lot." |
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JENNIFER ANISTON, in the May '05 issue of Glamour magazine Jennifer Aniston said, "I don't feel beautiful all the time. The majority of the time, I don't." |
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VINCE VAUGHN, in the July 2004 issue of Seventeen, Vince Vaughn is quoted as saying ".....In high School, I was painfully shy around girls, especially if I didn't know a girl -- there was no way I was going up to her, even though I was just awkward. But moving out here, and not being in college, I had no choice. When you're in school, you can play the I'm-not-that-interested guy because you're going to see them the whole year. But out here you only get one moment in time -- and you've got to use it. |
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REESE WITHERSPOON, in the December '04 issues of TWIST magazine said, "I have cellulite. I have stretch marks. I feel intimidated by Victoria's Secret. Hollywood is one of those endless competitions, but it's like running a race toward nothing. There's no winning. You're never going to win the pretty race. I just want to be the best version of myself that I can be. |
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CLAY AIKEN, in the Teen People magazine, Clay Aiken said: "Around 10th grade, I think I just decided I was going to be myself. I still wasn't the coolest person in school, but I was happier with myself and I had confidence and I started to become more popular. By 12th grade I was set. I still looked kind of dorky, but I was totally in. People feel comfortable around someone who is comfortable with himself. |
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EVA MENDES, in the May 9 issue of People, said, "I have the hugest ... overbite. It's so big, my older brothers and sisters used to call me Bugs. I looked like a bottle opener. But I've never fixed my bite because it's one of the things that makes me me. I used to get teased about the mole on my left cheek. In junior high the other kids would say, 'You've got some chocolate on your face,' and I fell for it every time. I said, 'The minute I turn 18 I'm going to get that mole removed!' But I'm happy I didn't. My best feature is my big hips. I've got some nice childbearing hips, and I feel very proud of them. When I was younger I thought they were too big. I wanted to be slimmer. But now I totally embrace them." |
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MATTHEW McCONAUGHEY, in the Sept '05 issue of In Style, Matthew said, "I love a woman who's comfortable in her skin." |
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KELLY ROWLAND- "If you don't respect yourself the way you should - if you don't realize your own value and worth - then somebody else will see that and take advantage of it." |
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TOPHER GRACE, in the November '04 issue of Cosmo Girl said, ".....In high school I was skinny, but really
short too -- I like to think that girls wanted to like me,
but couldn't because of that." |
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MINNIE DRIVERin the February 28, '05 issue of In Touch said, "I was an ugly cow when I was Younger." |
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MARK RUFFALOWhen I was in high schoo, Ihad cystic acne and was a little overweight. People made fun of my last name all the time: Buffalo Breath, Buffalo Fart, Buffalo Lips. It was an ongoing buffalo joke." |
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KATE WINSLET, in the March 7 issue of US magazine, Kate said classmates taunted the overweight Winslet by calling her Blubber. She has said she was "mentally bullied. ".....I would just sit there and think, 'Let this make you stronger.' In the July '05 issue of Vogue, Kate said, "When I was a teenager, I was very overweight. I was 190 pounds when I was sixteen. And as an actress I wanted to play Alice in Alice in Wonderland ... And, so, over the coure of a year, I very, very sensibly lost the majority of the weight. I changed the way I thought about food and my body." |
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MATT DAMON, when asked ".....what' something you've learned about relationships?" in the November 2004 issue of Cosmo Men, Matt Damon said, "It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants." |
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DREW BARRYMORE, in the January issue of Elle, Drew Barrymore is quoted as saying, "I think happiness is a choice. I believe luck is your attitude. It sounds like a really annoying bumper sticker. But there is such a great truth in that. You choose how you want to feel about what happens to you. I could have been a miserable failure. I haven't had anybody looking over me, and I've found my own way through optimistic exploration and fire-burning mistakes. I am a very happy person with an extraordinary life, so I must be doing a lot of things right. I really believe when you peel away the layers, the worlds is a beautiful place filled with beautiful people."
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February 23 issue of People magazine, Drew Barrymore, when
asked about her life after the house fire and the demise
of her marriage to Tom Green said, ".....All of a sudden I
was free to be exactly who I wanted to be rather than who
I thought I had to be for anyone else or anything else."
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the March 2004 issue of Glamour, Drew Barrymore said,
".....Maybe it's different for every person, but my
personal downfall in a relationship is losing a sense of
myself, getting too involved in their world and their
opinions and their lifestyle. I always have to struggle to
be my own person, whether it's as stupid as what I like to
eat for breakfast or as big as how to conduct myself as an
individual. What's saving me in this relationship is the
fact that I feel like I'm remaining my own person." She
also said, ".....If we could just admit our faults, at
least we could be human. I think what became more
important to me was not how other people saw me but how I
saw myself. I do run a company. I am consistent at work.
My bosses think that I will show up on time, and I'm
reliable to them. I can respect myself. That ended up
becoming the important journey for me. And, of course,
I'll always be a bit of a ridiculous clown, 'cause I just
can't help it. In the May '05 issue of Teenpeople, Drew said, "During my teen years ... I was awkward; I had braces; I was overweight. I was always teased. It's so funny because it's always those kids who get beaten up in school who end up triumphing. It's almost like you need that to build character-even though it's painful to go through it." |
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CHRISTINA RICCI, in Movieline magazine said, "I got ugly. Throughout my childhood, my favorite [rejection] was: She looks too healthy. They wanted that really gaunt, runaway girl kind of look. I was, like, Mom, I thought you could never be too healthy. She (Christina's mom) said, "Ignore them."" In
Interview magazine Christina said,
?I was really fat for a year. I was ugly. People
would come up to me in the street and say, "Weren't
you Wednesday in The Addams Family? God, you've gotten
so fat.? I felt I was a separate person from the
person they were talking about, and I'd want to take
them aside and scold them: You can't talk to me
like that.? Being overweight made it so hard for
me to get films. I didn't work for a year because
of it, and it was devastating. |
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CAMERON DIAZ, when I was growing up, I hated my body, I was extremely, extremely skinny as a child ? for years I was seventy-nine pounds, and much taller than everyone else. When I was in junior high, people thought I was sick. They used to call me Skeletor, or Skinny Bones Jones and all those other horrible names" |
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JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE, in the April 2004 issue of Twist magazine in an item about Justin Timberlake's Ideal Girl Checklist, Justin said, ".....Confidence is sexy to me. She must have confidence. It always attracts me. I like girls who are comfortable with themselves and have a good sense of humor. Pretty is cool, but it's not really about looks for me, it's more about personality. I like when a woman takes charge and does not just agree with everything I like -- that's boring. If a girl has self-esteem and confidence, it definitely shows. That's the most attractive thing in the world." |
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HALLE BERRY, was voted one of the world's sexiest women after her role in Bond film Die Another Day. But the Oscar-winning actress says she still doesn't see herself as a big star. "To be totally honest, most of the time I think I'm ugly," she told German magazine Journal fur die Frau. "I see myself without make-up every morning and that's why I don't have illusions any more. I certainly don't feel like a big star." |
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LEONARDO DICAPRIO, in the
December 12, ''04 issue of Parade magazine, Leonard said,
".....We all have horrible fears and insecurities that we
need to overcome. Mine came from never feeling accepted by
any group, never being received." |
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GISELE BUNCHEN, in the April 25 issue of US Weekly, said, "When I was a child, everyone laughed at me in school, but I think it's pretty normal because children are pretty honest. They called me Olive Oyl." |
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ANGELINA JOLIE, in Teen People magazine said, "I've often felt unattractive or different looking. As I've grown up, I've felt more comfortable in my own skin. It may sound cliche, but when you feel beautiful and strong on the inside, it shows on the outside." |
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BRAD PITT, in a recent issue of Teen People
a reporter asked Brad Pitt the following question
... When you were in high school, how did a girl
catch your attention? Brad Pitt responded: It's
a misconception that a girl has to do something
to catch a guy's attention. It just happens. There
are no tricks. In fact, when you have to get tricky,
it's not worth it. You know what makes a guy take
notice? If you don't let him disrespect you. If
some guy makes a stupid remark and a girl doesn't
let it get to her because she knows who she is
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NELLY, in the August '04 issue of TWIST, Nelly says a girl has to be confident to win him over. ".....Self-conscious people tend to throw things off because when you're around them, you become uncomfortable, too. You become scared of saying something that might affect their vibe. If someone can laugh at themselves, you know you're going to be able to get along with them." In the May '05 issue of Cosmogirl, Nelly said, "I think the real role models to teens shouldn't necessarily be athletes or entertainers or artists. They should be people in your community, people who you can talk to when you have a problem. People you can see on a daily basis and watch how they carry themselves. Because if you look up to entertainers or athletes, all you're seeing is their success. when I was in school, I couldn't call Michael Jordan and be like, 'Yo, Mike, I'm thinking of not going to school today because I didn't study-what do you think? Kids can't call Nelly and be like, 'Yo, what should I do?" |
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NEVE CAMPBELL, in Sassy magazine said ? "The boys wrote a song about all the girls in the (ballet) class, ranking them from prettiest to ugliest." The last verse, "Neve-aagh!" was reserved for her. "It was about how ugly I was," she said. |
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LIV TYLER, in the February 2004 issue of Glamour said, ".....I've been told if I lose weight, I'd have more work, but I refuse to submit [to that]. To the rest of the world I'm slim, and I like the way I am. |
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BRANDYin People magazine Brandy said the teachers were not sending her on auditions "Because you're not drop-dead gorgeous." My heart just dropped." In US Magazine she said, "In elementary [school] girls teased me because I was so skinny and I wasn?t that pretty. They pulled my hair and tried to jump me after school. In junior high, people hated me; they thought I was trying to show off. I used to try to buy friendships with my lunch money. It was awful for me." |
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TAYE DIGGES, in the April '05 issue of Jane, said, "There was an incident where I was playing softball in gym class, and I went up to bat and the pitcher was a more popular kid in school. As he was pitching, he screamed out to the rest of the players on the field, "Nerd!" three times in a row, as loud as he could." |
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SANDRA BULLOCK, in the March '05 issue of Vogue, Sandra admits
to having had a rough time growing up. "I hated my whole
childhood, hated it, hated it, hated it. There was no place
for me. I was not accepted here. I was noticeably different.
I was awkward. I was in the wrong clothes. I would get the sh_t kicked out of me constantly. My mother would be like,
'That's ridiculous. Why would anyone do that?' I'm coming
home with my hair a mess, crying. Finally a guidance
counselor came to my housse and said, 'We have a problem.
They are picking on her, and I don't know what to do about
it.' And I was so angry at my mother. She was like, 'Obvisouly
something you are doing.' ... I'm so thankful for it now
because it definintely gives you the empathetic view of
humanity." |
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DEBRA MESSING- "I was not asked at all. I didn't go
to my senior prom. I often danced by myself on the side." |
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MELISA ETHERIDGE, when asked what she is glad she let go of in the Oct 14, '05 issue of LIFE, Melissa said, "Fear. And the sense that I am not good enough-not good enough for my partner, my career, my kids. Before, I needed to make everybody else feel good, so nobody would look at me. I'd take on everybody's problems and make their life happy, so they didn't see I wasn't good enough. Now I can go to a photo shoot with 70 zillion people, and I don't have to make them think I'm the greatest. I can just be myself and trust that I'm okay." |
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TINA FEY- "I was a mean girl. I had a gift for coming up with the meanest possible thing to say in any situation. Well, at my high school -- a huge public school in a suburb of Philadelphia -- there were a few girls who were kind of "famous." Everyone knew who they were dating and what parties they went to. They weren't the prettiest girls or the ones with money. They were just randomly anointed. I was an honor student, and I was in a ton of activities -- the newspaper, drama club, the tennis team ... My friends and I didn't really date or go to cool parties, so we made jokes about those who did. To be honest, we felt kind of rejected, and when you don't feel confident about yourself, you may look for flaws in somebody else to make you feel better. Looking back, I can see the mean-girl thing for what it is: a waste of energy. But that's not much comfort if you're the target. The hardest thing is to free yourself from caring what someone says about you. But it brings big freedom if you do it." |
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BEN STILLER- "I was pretty insecure [around girls] because I had bad skin. Not really bad skin, but I had pimples. It affected my sense of who I was. It's such a silly thing when you look back, but at the time, it drove me crazy. .....[High School] can be brutal because of the cliques and the way kids treat each other. But stick it out -- it gets better. Things that seem like they mean the world at the moment, you'll look back on and realize weren't that important. It sounds like an after -- school special, but it's true." |
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PAULA ABDUL- "I was like any other teenage girl who wanted to be someone I'm not, and that was defined by what boys liked and what images of beauty the media perpetrated. Plus, when I was 7 years old, my ballet teacher said that I didn't have a dancer's body. That rang in my head as "I'm not normal; my body is wrong." It affected me in profound ways. I'm a strong girl, but I've always been a believer that when I can't manage, I surrender. I get myself to a place where someone can help me. I'm prouder of overcoming bulimia than of anything else I've done ?- more than having a number one record or selling out a concert. Celebrate yourself, embrace your struggle, and don't walk with shame, because nothing is as bad as you probably think it is. When I got through bulimia, I stopped living as a prisoner. Let your body fall into its natural state. Every minute you stay enthralled with a diet or get caught up in how you think you should look, you lose, because you're not enjoying life." |
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QUEEN LATIFAH, in the March 6, 2005 issue of Parade magazine when asked about high school, Queen Latifah said, "It was a very vulnerable time going from being insecure about my body and who I am to becoming comfortable with me. I had to tune out what the hell everybody else had to say about who I was. When I was able to do that, I felt free." In the March issue of In Style, Queen says, "I wish every woman would lover themselves and embrace what they were given naturally. I've been fortunte to have the career I want without changing what I look like. If [producers] ever demanded I lose so much weight that I'm not even a remnant of who I am, then hell no, I'm not going to do that. Besides, there'd be a lot of girls out there who wouldn't be inspired had I not been that girl with a little more weight who carried herself with that self-confidence. |
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HARVEY KEITEL- "I won't let anyone tell my son not to cry. I don't want anything to interfere with his expressing what he's feeling. As a kid I was told to shush, and as a result it's taken me a lifetime to be able to speak. I had to hide it - you hammer it down until you can't think anymore, you can't speak anymore, and your inner world is in retreat. You can't function, and you stutter, which I did as a boy. You will stutter not only vocally, but inwardly. You will hesitate, you will fumble, you will futz, and you will deny the truth because the truth is too difficult to handle. It's hard to select which situations to run away from once you become a runner, so you hide from everything." |
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MADONNA, in the January issue of "O" Magazine, Madonna is quoted as saying, "Oh sure, I've got lots of fears. My job is to conquer my fears. The irony of being a performer is that I have huge insecurities. People are shocked to hear that I think my legs are fat or I don't like the way I look. We all have insecurities. We'd be lying if we said we didn't. I'm so not the Material Girl now. There were many years when I thought fame, fortune, and public approval would bring me happiness. But one day you wake up and realize they don't. Each of us is responsible for everything that happens in our lives. When good things happen -- we win an award, meet the love of our lives, or get a promotion - we take ownership of that. But when bad things happen-we get fired or we divorce-we often don't take responsibility. We call it something that just happened. I no understand that just as we can draw the positive, we can draw the negative." When asked what she knew for sure, Madonna said, "That there are no mistakes or accidents. That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, we get what we give, we pull in what we put out." |
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UMA THURMAN- "One of the things that struck me at fashion shows is how great these incredibly thin women look in photographs but how in real life it's too thin. They would be more attractive if they were a little heavier. And I actually don't think this desire to be rail thin is as pandemic aesthetically as the fashion world presents it to be. I don't think men prefer women to look like that." |
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ENRIQUE IGLESIASsaid his girlfriend snagged him because, "...I'm not keen on girls who are too snobby or arrogant-that's a real turnoff for me. I really like girls who are natural and down to earth." Source: TWIST magazine Aug '04 |
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HILLARY SWANK, at the 2005 Academy Awards in her acceptance speech said, "I'm just a girl from a trailor park who had a dream." In the March 2005 issue of Interview she said, "There are things about my childhood that I regret, that my mom regrets, that my dad regrets, and I think that my brother regrets, which is that my parents were so troubled in their relationship that we were kind of neglected at times. The other side of my childhood so overshadows that, though, that it's not something I tend to bring up. Ultimately, my parents did the best they could. A lot of people hold on to something not being the way they think it should've been, and they're messed up because of it. And what's sad about that is that life will be over for your parents one day, and you can be left with what you could have made of the relationship, but didn't. My dad wasn't in my life very much when I was growing up, but I decided that I didn't want his life to be over and for me to say, "Oh, if I'd only grown up I could've had an adult relationship with him." I'm so glad I have my dad in my life right now. In the July 18, '05 edition of US Weekly, Hillary said, "One of the first producers I worked with told me I had a horrible forehead and my lips were too big." |
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EMINEM, in the March 05 issue of Cosmo Girl said, "...you gotta learn to judge people for the individuals that they are." |
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JULIANNA MOORE, in the May '05 issue of Glamour said, "I think imperfections are important, just as mistakes are important. You only get to be good by making mistakes, and you only get to be real by being imperfect.". |
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CHER, in the Chicago Sun-Times Cher is quoted as saying, "I'm the girl who everyone said was never going anywhere. I guess I shocked a few people, but deep down I don't feel like I'm there yet either. I'm still just going day to day. I'm just doing my thing." |
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TYRA BANKS, in GQ magazine said, "The modeling industry goes
in and out of different styles and body types that
are supposed to be hot at that moment. And right
now, it's not so much the heroin-chic, because
the models are looking a little bit healthier to
me--and when I say healthy, I don't even mean body
type, I mean just facial pigment and stuff like
that. They have blush on their cheeks now again
and they look a little healthier. But still such
a stick, skinny ideal--which would have worked
for me when I was 11 years old because I was 98
pounds and my same height and now I'm 130. So I
was really, really thin and insecure. It would
have worked well for me to look at that in a magazine
and see that that was called beautiful. But the
majority of little girls aren't that way. The majority
of them are struggling with their weight and are
the opposite way. So I just think it's important
to show different body types and say that they
are all beautiful which is not really what they
do. When
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CINDY CRAWFORD, in the May 2004 issue of Lifetime magazine, Cindy Crawford said, "...I am my true self in my marriage. I don't have to act or pretend I like football. I'm secure enough that if Rande wants to go out and I don't, I say 'Go and have a good time.' Before, I might have either wanted him to stay or else I would go just to keep an eye on him." |
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BRUCE WILLIS, in the March 21, 05 issue of People said when asked if he was dating anyone now, "No. I actually said these words aloud for the first time this year. I'm comfortable being alone. I'm comfortable being single. I may fall in love again, but-for those kids who are listening to Bruce Willis for love advice - any relationship that isn't founded on friendship is just doomed. |
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HEATHER LOCKLEAR, in the July 11 issue of People Heather said, "There are beautiful women, and then there's me. I've seen this face in every mall I've ever been in. I'm not that special. I got lucky-my acting career just happened. |
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KIRSTY ALLEY, on the Today Show, Kirsty said, "I think that we're all sort of sick of being judged on how we look no matter if we're too skinny. It seems you can't be just right anymore. You're either too fat or too skinny too old or too young too ethnic or too not, you know. You rarely go wow that girl's just beautiful. |
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CHRISTINA APPLEGATE - "The truth is, I was the ugly, dorky duckling growing up. Even when I would do the show [Married With Children], I would walk away wearing baggy clothes. I was just so underconfident in what I looked like. I never looked in the mirror and never thought that I was a pretty girl. Boys never hit on me. I really wanted to be that hoochie mama in the club, the one that guys all wanted to look at and grab, but I just could not be that person." |
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JOHN CUSACK, in the December issue of Cosmopolitan said, "Almost everything about women is sexy. But it's just the person, the way they are, the way they move across a room. Sometimes it's confidence, a kind of attitude. The most sexy people I know are the ones who have the guts to just be themselves. It's hard to find people like that in Hollywood. If somebody is putting on an act, it's a sideshow that doesn't last." |
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SALMA HAYEK, in the September issue of O magazine, said, "In my world, you have to be so beautiful, so skinny, so rich, so famous - and I don't believe you really have to be any of those things. You simply have to be who you are. I do have thighs and a butt. I have cellulite. Don't be too impressed with me. Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress. I get them free and I'm too lazy to go out and look for my own. I, a rich girl from Mexico, came here with designer clothes. And one day, when I was starving in an apartment in Los Angeles, I looked at my Chanel blouses and said, "If only I could pay the rent with one of these." |
Did
you know that Drew was called "Fatso" by the boys when she
was in school? Yes she was. When asked about her wild days
of drinking she said, ".....I'd been suffocating myself
with trying to be such a good person that I realized I was
making myself miserable." ".....I can feel beautiful on
the inside-and I can tell that shows on the outside. It's
amazing to me."