Iskra Lawrence People often ask me, ‘Who is your role model?’ and it sounds a bit cliche, but I’ve been trying to be my own model. – Iskra Lawrence Bit Quotes Cliche Quotes Model Quotes People Quotes Role Quotes Sounds Quotes I’ve been trying to be the model that I wanted to see when I was a teenager, looking through magazines and not seeing myself, looking at pictures that were so edited. I felt like the sample size was right, and my body was wrong. I basically ended up going into battle with my body, and that’s a daily battle every time you look in the mirror. Every time you see an image of a successful model or someone who you look up to who doesn’t look like you, you think you’re not good enough.
Javed Akhtar By the time I was 12, I had memorised hundreds of couplets. I could recite for hours poems written by others. I knew I could write a line in metre. But I never dared to do it till I was 33 years old. – Javed Akhtar
Eddie Trunk I’ve been urged by people forever to try and start a real Rock Hall of Fame. I’ve had some very, very preliminary discussions about doing it. Obviously, I can’t do it myself, but there are a lot of people interested in that. – Eddie Trunk
Lynda Barry Part of a horror movie has to be a bit fakey for me to really enjoy it. The new ones are so realistic that they distract me from the ride through the horror. – Lynda Barry
Colin Hanks I knew that I needed to do something that I desperately loved. There was a period where I did question if it was acting because I knew that I would be making things hard on myself. I knew that there was going to be a little bit of a hullabaloo because of my dad being who he is and all that. – Colin Hanks
Jennifer Connelly The thing that really matters to me is well-being and happiness. Maybe it comes from knowing people who have tortured themselves trying to meet these strangely narrow and rigorous definitions of what our culture thinks is beautiful. – Jennifer Connelly
Ann Brashares Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there. – Ann Brashares
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