Mirror Quotes
By Alan Reiner – July 20, 2024
‘There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.’ – Edith Wharton
‘Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.’ – Ernest Holmes
‘The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.’ – St. Jerome
‘Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.’ – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
‘Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.’ – Rabindranath Tagore
‘I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.’ – Kendrick Lamar
‘Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.’ – Khalil Gibran
‘I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.’ – Steven Wright
‘You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.’ – George Bernard Shaw
‘For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.’ – Steve Jobs
‘Authenticity is everything! You have to wake up every day and look in the mirror, and you want to be proud of the person who’s looking back at you. And you can only do that if you’re being honest with yourself and being a person of high character. You have an opportunity every single day to write that story of your life.’ – Aaron Rodgers
‘Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.’ – Earl Nightingale
‘A healthy social life is found only when, in the mirror of each soul, the whole community finds its reflection, and when, in the whole community, the virtue of each one is living.’ – Rudolf Steiner
‘Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you’ll start to see a big difference in your life.’ – Yoko Ono
‘I’m a mirror. If you’re cool with me, I’m cool with you, and the exchange starts. What you see is what you reflect. If you don’t like what you see, then you’ve done something. If I’m standoffish, that’s because you are.’ – Jay-Z
‘Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.’ – Chanakya
‘I look in the mirror and see a few scars, but I like myself.’ – Steven Adler
‘Life is a mirror and you get back what you give out.’ – Tess Daly
‘In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.’ – Warren Buffett
‘When you look in the mirror, what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you? The two are so, so different. One is an infinite consciousness capable of being and creating whatever it chooses, the other is an illusion imprisoned by its own perceived and programmed limitations.’ – David Icke
‘If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face.’ – Rumi
‘Cinema is a mirror by which we often see ourselves.’ – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
‘See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.’ – Joel Osteen
‘We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.’ – Marshall McLuhan
‘Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?’ – Pablo Picasso
‘We only see what we want to see; we only hear what we want to hear. Our belief system is just like a mirror that only shows us what we believe.’ – Don Miguel Ruiz
‘If you want to see an endangered species, get up and look in the mirror.’ – John Young
‘Cinema is a reflection of society and, in most cases, has the ability to be a mirror and not just show the problems but also give solutions and help them reach a large number of people through faces and voices that matter.’ – Kirti Kulhari
‘A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.’ – Baltasar Gracian
‘You mirror what the world mirrors to you.’ – Jennifer Lopez
‘Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.’ – Malcolm de Chazal
‘Confidence literally starts from yourself. You have to go look in the mirror at yourself. If you don’t like what you see, you’re going to give off that energy.’ – Megan Thee Stallion
‘True love brings up everything – you’re allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.’ – Jennifer Aniston
‘I’m at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I’ve just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.’ – Rodney Dangerfield
‘Cinema is a mirror that can change the world.’ – Diego Luna
‘There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.’ – Noam Chomsky
‘Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.’ – Percy Bysshe Shelley
‘Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed.’ – Indra Devi
‘Hold up a mirror and ask yourself what you are capable of doing, and what you really care about. Then take the initiative – don’t wait for someone else to ask you to act.’ – Sylvia Earle
‘Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.’ – Samuel Butler
‘The longer we keep looking back in the rearview mirror, it takes away from everything that’s moving forward.’ – Dan Quinn
‘Stop saying these negative things about yourself. Look in the mirror and find something about yourself that’s positive and celebrate that!’ – Tyra Banks
‘Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.’ – Aeschylus
‘The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.’ – Hans-Georg Gadamer
‘Natural beauty takes at least two hours in front of a mirror.’ – Pamela Anderson
‘The problem with looking in the mirror is that you never know how you will feel about what you see. Sometimes, when my hormones are out of sync, I have no interest in the mirror, and if I do look I think everything is all wrong. Other times, I am quite pleased with what I see.’ – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
‘No matter what’s behind us in the rearview mirror, it’s always about what’s next.’ – Dabo Swinney
‘The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.’ – Jawaharlal Nehru
‘Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun.’ – Evita Peron
‘Whatever you put around yourself, you will be the mirror of it. Surround yourself with things you love.’ – Marcel Wanders
‘Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver.’ – Diane Ackerman
‘The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.’ – Dudley Moore
‘The best mirror is an old friend.’ – Peter Nivio Zarlenga
‘The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.’ – Sigmund Freud
‘Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the dumbest of you all?’ – Anne Robinson
‘Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.’ – Virat Kohli
‘Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don’t hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less.’ – Billy Sunday
‘I’ve only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.’ – Sid Vicious
‘If every senator looks into the mirror and sees a future president, then every president looks into that same mirror and sees himself on Mount Rushmore.’ – Richard Cohen
‘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.’ – Michael Jackson
‘Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can’t expect an angel to look out.’ – B. C. Forbes
‘I’ve been singing Shakira songs in front of my bathroom mirror into my hairbrush forever. It’s like a daily routine.’ – Taylor Swift
‘Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing. We set no styles, no standards. We’re reflections. It’s a distorted mirror in the fun house. We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.’ – Alan King
‘My tattoos have become a part of me. When I look in the mirror, I just see my face.’ – Lil Peep
‘That Seaman is a handsome young man but he spends too much time looking in his mirror rather than at the ball. You can’t keep goal with hair like that.’ – Brian Clough
‘I don’t care what people think about me. When I look in the mirror, I wanna like what I see.’ – Kat Von D
‘Whenever I see a mirror, I just look at myself, or when I see my own reflection, I quickly take a look; I won’t lie about that. But when I am in front of the camera, it’s just the character, not me.’ – Alia Bhatt
‘As most people know, I am a vampire, so I have no reflection. Every day, I paste a picture of someone else on the mirror.’ – Meat Loaf
‘A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman’s eyes.’ – Clare Boothe Luce
‘I think it’s important to hold a mirror up to society and yourself.’ – Ricky Gervais
‘I’m really just using the mirror to summon something I don’t even know until I see it.’ – Cindy Sherman
‘My extreme characters are in a state of rebellion or who are being ostracized or being misunderstood, or misfits or trying to fit in and fighting for their rights to love, live, and co-exist. They sort of mirror my own demons.’ – Xavier Dolan
‘The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by the images of as many objects as are in front of it.’ – Leonardo da Vinci
‘Sexuality and sensuality are completely different things. Sensuality is something that you’re born with. But sexuality is something I leave for my own mirror.’ – Ricky Martin
‘A mirror reflects what you see, and a black mirror shows the dark side of it.’ – Madeline Brewer
‘We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!’ – Maya Angelou
‘The mirror is a powerful tool because it forces you to deal with yourself on a deeper level. Conceptually, paintings are like mirrors. They’re an expression from the artist: ‘This is how I view the world – I’m presenting it to you.” – Mickalene Thomas
‘A sister is both your mirror – and your opposite.’ – Elizabeth Fishel
‘A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.’ – Georg C. Lichtenberg
‘Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.’ – Mohsen Makhmalbaf
‘If somebody thinks they’re a hedgehog, presumably you just give ’em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.’ – Douglas Adams
‘I did a series of these soft-core horror movies called ‘Mirror Mirror.’ I got killed in ’em all – and each time, I came back as a different character. They were all straight-to-video.’ – Mark Ruffalo
‘We choose our sex, our color, our country, and then we look around for the particular set of parents who will mirror the pattern we are bringing in to work on in this lifetime.’ – Louise L. Hay
‘I love looking in the mirror and feeling good about what I see.’ – Heather Morris
‘I look in the mirror every morning, okay. What is going on here? You know, I just say, ‘Look, it’s sheer insanity.” – Si Robertson
‘I go through the same kind of situations as other people. I have to give that to people, because people have this facade, this mirage, this mirror about me.’ – Tory Lanez
‘Humility is a super-important factor in all of our lives, and I try to remind myself every evening in front of the mirror, ‘Just calm down.” – Toto Wolff
‘A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life, and the people I love the most in the mirror of the blank screen. In a memoir, feelings are more important than facts, and to write honestly, I have to confront my demons.’ – Isabel Allende
‘My life is like driving down a road. I occasionally glance in the rearview mirror, but I’m not focused on the past or looking back anymore.’ – Scott Hall
‘The way you get to know yourself is by the expressions on other people’s faces, because that’s the only thing that you can see, unless you carry a mirror about.’ – Gil Scott-Heron
‘The most important tool of my trade was a mirror.’ – Lana Turner
‘I was raised with the idea of maximum effort: as long as you could look in the mirror and say, ‘I gave it everything I had,’ it was OK. But if you gave it less, that would disgrace you.’ – Mark Harmon
‘There was a time in my life where I was very depressed, I had lost all self-esteem. I came to a point where I couldn’t even look at myself in the mirror, I had gained weight.’ – Momina Mustehsan
‘Speech is the mirror of the soul.’ – Publilius Syrus
‘You know, I looked at my face in the mirror this morning, and I like being old. My face has more content and when I train in the gym now, I am not training to be strong or handsome – just better than I was yesterday. These days the race is just against myself.’ – Jean-Claude Van Damme
‘Self-examination with a close-up mirror in an antiseptic environment is what Nine Inch Nails is based on.’ – Trent Reznor
‘In one sense, the stories I read betrayed me. Too few gave me back my mirror image. Fewer still spoke to, or acknowledged, the existence of the problems I faced as a black foster child from a dysfunctional and badly broken home.’ – Nikki Grimes
‘If you concentrate on the rear mirror, you’ll crash and cause an accident.’ – Eliud Kipchoge
‘If you’re feeling blue, lock yourself in a room, stand in front of a mirror, and dance – and laugh at yourself and be sexy. Dance the silliest and ugliest you’ve ever danced. Make fun of yourself and try to recover your sense of humor.’ – Salma Hayek
‘The angle we give the bathroom mirror is always meant to flatter.’ – Jonathan Miles
‘Looking at robots is not like looking at an idol. It’s not a human being, so it’s more like a mirror – the energy people send to the stage bounces back and everybody has a good time together rather than focusing on us.’ – Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo
‘I remember thinking, ‘If I don’t love the woman that I look at in the mirror, I am never going to be successful.’ That was the moment I had to start convincing myself to look in the mirror and start saying, ‘I love you.” – Ashley Graham
‘To this day, the first thing that I do every morning is look in the mirror. I’ll tell myself, ‘Look at your skin. Look at your teeth and your smile. You are beautiful.” – Khoudia Diop
‘The day when I start a race without intending to win it, I won’t be able to look at myself in the mirror.’ – Eddy Merckx
‘The war was a mirror; it reflected man’s every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity.’ – George Grosz
‘As a kid, I’d go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I’d be in the bathroom crying, studying myself in the mirror. I was preparing for future roles.’ – Adam Sandler
‘The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.’ – Jacques Lacan
‘Every time I looked in the mirror, it was like, ‘You’re not good enough.’ ‘There’s always someone more popular.’ ‘There’s always someone more gifted in music.” – Brian Welch
‘I’m insecure about everything, because… I’m never going to look in the mirror and see this blond, blue-eyed girl. That is my idea of what I’d like to look like.’ – Cher
‘I like technology, but ‘Black Mirror’ is more what the consequences are, and it doesn’t tend to be about technology itself: it tends to be how we use or misuse it. We’ve not really thought through the consequences of it.’ – Charlie Brooker
‘The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.’ – Rose Kennedy
‘I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?’ – Bela Lugosi
‘Fashion is a mirror, reflecting the culture.’ – Bill Cunningham
‘Our job is only to hold up the mirror – to tell and show the public what has happened.’ – Walter Cronkite
‘I’d rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.’ – Ani DiFranco
‘Faith and hard work have been my mirror.’ – Patrick Beverley
‘Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.’ – Lawrence Durrell
‘Nobody really knows what they look like. The mirror shows you only what you want to see.’ – Terry Wogan
‘The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.’ – Jim Bishop
‘A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.’ – Stendhal
‘Ultimately, if you can say that I’m a bad owner and we’re winning championships, I can live with that. But if we’re not making the playoffs and we’re spending and losing money, then I have to look in the mirror and say maybe I’m not taking the necessary steps to doing what it takes to run an organization.’ – Michael Jordan
‘At the end of the day, we all look in the mirror and tend to see our own self-perceived flaws.’ – Michael Gracey
‘Your self-esteem won’t come from body parts. You need to step away from the mirror every once in a while, and look for another reflection, like the one in the eyes of the people who love you and admire you.’ – Stacy London
‘The best kind of art or writing holds up a mirror to society.’ – Liam Cunningham
‘When Hubble was launched, it became clear very shortly thereafter that there was a problem with the optics.The mirror was not quite the right shape. And the one program that I had really been looking forward to doing with Hubble was studying outer planets in our solar system, the planets Uranus and Neptune.’ – Heidi Hammel
‘I saw ‘Taxi Driver,’ and ‘Taxi Driver’ kind of saved my life. The scene where Robert De Niro is looking at himself in the mirror saying, ‘You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me? Who the hell else are you talkin’ to?’ That’s the scene that changed my life by changing my attitude about acting.’ – Michael Biehn
‘We say arts education is good for general education, but that’s not the point. The arts are what great nations are remembered for. They are a mirror.’ – Damian Woetzel
‘We all wait for a mirror to show us who we are, to validate us. When we hear something about ourselves that we have never heard before, it feels like a blessing, and it gives power.’ – Clarissa Pinkola Estes
‘I can honestly say I love getting older. Then again, I never put my glasses on before looking in the mirror.’ – Cherie Lunghi
‘I think a lot of us have some form of body dysmorphia… You’re looking in the mirror, and you’re kind of disassociated in some way. I think a good reminder is to actually, physically touch yourself. ‘Ah, okay, this is what my arm feels like. It’s not what I’m mutating in my head. I’m not some sort of scary monster.” – Mary Lambert
‘If you can look in the mirror and say I love myself, that’s going to affect your interactions with people who look like you.’ – Brent Faiyaz
‘Everything seems fine until you’re about 40. Then something is definitely beginning to go wrong. And you look in the mirror with your old habit of thinking, ‘While I accept that everyone grows old and dies, it’s a funny thing, but I’m an exception to that rule.” – Martin Amis
‘One time I can stand fiddling in front of the mirror for an hour and another time I think: well hack, this is just the best it can get. Only if I have to go to work I really try to look fantastic.’ – Jonathan Brandis
‘Vladimir Nabokov liked to examine cruelty and the human condition. That didn’t mean he was cruel; there’s no evidence he kicked puppies just for the fun of it. Similarly, ‘Black Mirror’ likes to examine possible dystopias, but that doesn’t mean the show is cynical enough to endorse them.’ – Jeff Vandermeer
‘Every so often, I’ll look at myself in the mirror and go, ‘You’re a bad mother,’ you know? Like, ‘You’re a bad dude, man, and you’re gonna show the world who you are when the time is right.” – Phil Heath
‘I was a million percent in love with Edward Scissorhands. I remember looking in the mirror on the last day of shooting… and thinking how sad I was to be saying goodbye to Edward.’ – Johnny Depp
‘If I buy a new car, I rip the rearview mirror off because I don’t like to look back.’ – Riff Raff
‘The hardest thing for – not only an artist but for anybody to do is look themselves in the mirror and acknowledge, you know, their own flaws and fears and imperfections and put them out there in the open for people to relate to it.’ – Kendrick Lamar
‘And so we were asleep there in San Diego. And our pilot called us. And his brother was on one of the other planes. And when he was leaving the airport, he saw in his rear view mirror that there was an explosion.’ – Reba McEntire
‘If you are fearful, a horse will back off. If you are calm and confident, it will come forward. For those who are often flattered or feared, the horse can be a welcome mirror of the best in human nature.’ – Clare Balding
‘George Foreman. A miracle. A mystery to myself. Who am I? The mirror says back. The George you was always meant to be. Wasn’t always like that. Used to look in the mirror and cried a river.’ – George Foreman
‘I know you’re supposed to love yourself, but I really hate the way I look. When I look in the mirror I’m so disgusted by the chocolate blancmange abomination staring back at me, I actually apologise to my wife for my physical appearance. I’ve got no backside, an overhanging belly and I’m so disproportionate.’ – Romesh Ranganathan
‘I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course.’ – Jim Carrey
‘When I was around 18, I looked in the mirror and said, ‘You’re either going to love yourself or hate yourself.’ And I decided to love myself. That changed a lot of things.’ – Queen Latifah
‘I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I’m doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.’ – Marilyn Monroe
‘I think that the point of being an architect is to help raise the experience of everyday living, even a little. Putting a window where people would really like one. Making sure a shaving mirror in a hotel bathroom is at the right angle. Making bureaucratic buildings that are somehow cheerful.’ – David Chipperfield
‘The mirror to the beautiful is beautiful.’ – Said Nursi
‘Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high as can be imagined with unpredictable outcomes. It’s a perfect genre in which to explore hard issues of good and evil, a mirror that allows the reader to see both the good and not so good in themselves.’ – Ted Dekker
‘I feel that I fell somewhat under that category where I was using fighting to kind of run from my own self to an extent, to kind of numb the things that I thought about myself. When I had fighting taken away, I was forced to look at myself in the mirror and say, ‘What are you without fighting?” – Dominick Cruz
‘I try and feel good, and the only way to do it is to see myself in the mirror and to know that I’m still a single piece.’ – Sushmita Sen
‘I would watch movies on the couch in my house. If I saw a scene played by a woman or a man – it doesn’t matter – a scene I really liked, I would right away run to the mirror and repeat it.’ – Ana de Armas
‘I am forced to view the Middle East as if I am looking in a mirror that has been shattered.’ – Benny Hinn
‘I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.’ – Lacey Chabert
‘This confidence is not something that happens overnight. I have been working on it for a long time. I look in the mirror and do affirmations: ‘You are bold. You are brilliant. You are beautiful.’ If my lower pooch is really popping out that day, I look at it and say, ‘Pooch, you are cute!” – Ashley Graham
‘I enjoy looking good and love experimenting with my hair colour. I’ve just gone from blonde to brunette, and keep looking in the mirror and not recognising myself!’ – Katie Piper
‘Though suffering and trauma are not identical, the Buddha’s insight into the nature of suffering can provide a powerful mirror for examining the effects of trauma in your life. The Buddha’s basic teaching offers guidance for healing our trauma and recovering a sense of wholeness.’ – Peter A. Levine
‘Whoever comes to me finds me a mirror to whatever is in his heart. Thus, I try to help him to see qualities in himself that he needs to overcome.’ – Paramahansa Yogananda
‘British culture loves the image of itself in the mirror; it doesn’t want to look deep inside, behind the eyes, inside the brain, inside where those shivers and nightmares lie.’ – Steven Berkoff
‘A man’s manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.’ – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
‘I think body-image issues are not just a dancer thing. I think we’re much more in tune and aware because the body is our instrument and art, and we stare at ourselves in a mirror all day, but I feel like it’s something that every woman experiences and every girl experiences.’ – Misty Copeland
‘I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you.’ – Bill Withers
‘I look in the mirror, and I don’t mind what I see.’ – Luke Evans
‘An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the culture of any given time; they also create it.’ – bell hooks
‘Don’t stare into a mirror when you are trying to solve a problem.’ – Mason Cooley
‘You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.’ – Jean Cocteau
‘Cuba is like going to a whole other planet. It’s so different but it’s so similar to the United States, to Miami. It’s like a doppelgaenger. It’s the mirror image. And I have no doubt, that once Cuba becomes democratic, that it will be the favorite tourist destination for Americans.’ – Henry Louis Gates
‘Charley Patton is the original inspiration. I didn’t play anything when I was a kid. Then, when I was 20, I went into my mam’s bedroom because she had a double mirror, and I wanted to see what the back of my hair was doing. She had an alarm-clock radio, and it came on with this old guy moaning and hollering, playing this strange guitar.’ – Chris Rea
‘I want to create a collection, almost like a trilogy of sorts. Whereas ‘Milk and Honey’ was very much like holding a mirror up to yourself, the second book is turning that mirror around and fixing it on the world. The book is a reflection of the times we are in.’ – Rupi Kaur
‘Pope Francis is not only changing the face of the Catholic Church, he’s challenging us to be the face of God in the world by seeing the face of God in the person we least expect to see it, including the person in the mirror.’ – Regina Brett
‘I’ve considered having my nose fixed. But I didn’t trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.’ – Barbra Streisand
‘The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.’ – George Bernard Shaw
”Aura’ is a song where you’re looking at yourself in the mirror, and I was personally impacted when I recorded it. I identified with it.’ – Ozuna
‘The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.’ – Taylor Swift
‘I’m never interested in the painting being a mirror to culture. I think that’s really boring. What I’m interested in is painting as an affective space. The place where the hierarchies of the world can be rearranged within the space of a painting. And they can be articulated in different ways.’ – Dana Schutz
‘A film is a mirror image of our society. If there’s something wrong with the way we make films or the way women are stereotyped, then it means that it’s happening in real life.’ – Kalki Koechlin
‘Democrats couldn’t care less if people in Indiana hate them. But if Europeans curl their lips, liberals can’t look at themselves in the mirror.’ – Ann Coulter
‘In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.’ – Ray Bradbury
‘The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.’ – Leonardo da Vinci
‘I’m this goofball. I look at myself in the mirror, and the person that I know doesn’t match up to what I think people love to perceive me as.’ – Darren Criss
‘I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, ‘OK, this is what I’m going to do for a living and I’m going to be Weird Al.” – Al Yankovic
‘Just like hair frames our face, brows frame our eyes. I see so much potential in harmonized beauty whenever I see a woman who’s not filling in her brows, and I just want to go in with my brow pencil and just be like, ‘Filling in eyebrows, OK, done – look in the mirror and be inspired.’ That’s one of my pet peeves, but beauty is subjective.’ – Michelle Phan
‘My job has always been to hold a mirror up to nature.’ – Tom Hanks
‘You know when civilization began? With the invention of the mirror.’ – Shimon Peres
‘When you look at yourself in a mirror, do you like what you see, or do you judge your body and use the word to tell yourself lies? If you believe that you are not attractive enough, then you believe a lie, and you are using the word against yourself, against the truth.’ – Don Miguel Ruiz
‘When there are no lyrics, people can picture what they want. It’s a reflection of where they are in their lives. Music becomes a mirror.’ – Hiromi Uehara
‘I’ve never found therapy to be a sign of weakness; I’ve found the opposite to be true. The willingness to have a mirror held up to you definitely requires strength.’ – Brooke Shields
‘I realize I’m a mirror.’ – Billy Corgan
‘I look in the mirror and see new lines every day, I’ll see the odd grey hair – but this is life.’ – Tess Daly
‘My career means, if you’re a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there’s one Indian in your rearview mirror.’ – Sherman Alexie
‘It’s not a prerequisite for an actor to be obsessed about his looks. I know there are people who don’t look in the mirror at all, and I’m getting there.’ – Hrithik Roshan
‘Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.’ – Diane Ackerman
‘When it comes to exercise, everybody has to find what works for them. I watch my body. I look at myself in the mirror once a week – not because I’m vain, but I’m looking for moles and changes in my body.’ – Montel Williams
‘Only conscious man can mirror the universal: he can consciously become one with the universal and so can consciously transcend the individual.’ – Piet Mondrian
‘I like myself a lot more than I used to. I had a very difficult time in my twenties especially. It was hard for me to look in the mirror and find something that I liked about myself.’ – Janet Jackson
‘Politics always fascinated me. In my 20s, I was involved in politics and, as I look in the mirror, not for the noblest of purposes. It was for sport.’ – Steve Schmidt
‘Musclemen grow on trees. They can tense their muscles and look good in a mirror. So what? I’m interested in practical strength that’s going to help me run, jump, twist, punch.’ – Jason Statham
‘I think clothes should make you feel safe. I like clothes you want to go to sleep in. I sometimes stand in front of a mirror and change a million times because I know I really want to wear my nightgown.’ – Gilda Radner
‘Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.’ – Karin Slaughter
‘I have the opportunity, which most people don’t experience nearly as much, of being in front of a mirror up to 10 hours a day. Staring at your body, you really get to know every little detail of how to make yourself look your best.’ – Misty Copeland
‘For me, after every game you look yourself in the mirror and ask ‘what can i do better, what can i do to help this team?’ Then you go back to the drawing board and you go back and you work hard.’ – Adam Thielen
‘Hip-hop was my first audience – I would rap in the mirror, walk down the street and listen to my Walkman.’ – Derek Luke
‘I had very bad acne growing up. I had braces for six years, from the fifth to the 11th grade. I didn’t look in the mirror and feel like someone who should be on TV.’ – Randy Orton
‘I’ve always told Will, ‘You can do whatever you want as long as you can look at yourself in the mirror and be okay.’ Because at the end of the day, Will is his own man. I’m here as his partner, but he is his own man. He has to decide who he wants to be, and that’s not for me to do for him. Or vice versa.’ – Jada Pinkett Smith
‘If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, ‘You’ve been drunk on money,’ they’re not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they’d be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we’ve been, and ‘The Great Gatsby’ can provide that explanation.’ – Baz Luhrmann
‘Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror.’ – Anne Roiphe
‘We all look in the mirror and name the things that we don’t like about ourselves or wish we could change. Instead, name the good things and focus on that!’ – Colbie Caillat
‘Since the summer days of my Canadian childhood, I have loved to canoe across the dark mirror of northern lakes, paddling with an inside flick of the blade, leaving a trail of twisting whirlpools in my wake.’ – Rory MacLean
‘It’s not fun to see myself in the mirror.’ – Diane Keaton
‘A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.’ – Robert Kiyosaki
‘I look at myself in the mirror and think I’m gorgeous.’ – Kathy Burke
‘For me, being a director is about watching, not about telling people what to do. Or maybe it’s like being a mirror; if they didn’t have me to look at, they wouldn’t be able to put the make-up on.’ – Jane Campion
‘Now, I’m not the kind of guy who likes to look in the mirror and say, ‘Oh, you’re the best.” – Dickey Betts
‘I get the ‘Daily Mirror,’ purely and simply because they put the Racing Post prices in.’ – John Virgo
‘Speech is the mirror of action.’ – Solon
‘The reason I fell in love with fitness was because of the way I felt after a workout, even looking in the mirror afterward and feeling good about myself.’ – Mandy Rose
‘I got offered ‘Black Mirror,’ and my boyfriend and I were so excited. I used to read Charlie Brooker’s column growing up.’ – Chloe Pirrie
‘You don’t wanna walk around and say, ‘I’m somebody’s niece, I’m somebody’s cousin, I’m somebody’s daughter. Who are you?’ And I think that’s always the challenge when you grow up in a well-known family, is ultimately, you have to face yourself in the mirror and say, ‘Who are you? What have you done?” – Maria Shriver
‘Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.’ – Christopher Lasch
‘I’m not going to be around for a long time, so I like to be able to look at myself in the mirror and say I talked about stuff when I’m not supposed to and didn’t have to. I could be in the closet, but I feel insulted at the idea that I should be.’ – James Adomian
‘Trump was always a poster boy of the selfish, egomaniacal, ignorant, bragging, cruel rich kid, whose mirror was the sleazy pages of Rupert Murdoch’s ‘New York Post.’ Trump’s oxygen was the leaked item, without which he would die the suffocating death of being shown to a bad table.’ – Richard Cohen
‘I think white women need to wake up and say, ‘Not all women are white,’ three times in front of the mirror.’ – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
‘One fateful morning, I looked at myself in the mirror and realized that I shouldn’t be operating on patients and then teaching them to eat to avoid me in the future; I should teach them to eat so that I wouldn’t have to operate on them in the first place!’ – Steven Gundry
‘I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.’ – Marilyn Monroe
‘Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.’ – Muhammad Iqbal
‘I was talking on the phone in my trailer, and I looked in the mirror and I saw the badge clipped to my belt, a gun with a holster, and the suit and the tie with the jacket off, and it was just deja vu. I remember that image so clearly from growing up. My dad would come home for lunch, take off his jacket, have the gun and the badge.’ – Michael Trucco
‘I wanted to look in the mirror and be accountable to only one person. The only person is me, and that’s the only thing that drives me. The only person I’m in competition with is myself.’ – Drew McIntyre
‘If I stop to think about fans, or best-selling, or not best-selling, or good reviews, or not-good reviews, it just becomes too much. It’s like staring at the mirror all day.’ – Jhumpa Lahiri
‘There are people in New York who feel I should have more of a hometown approach. I feel we have to be a mirror and reflect what’s happening on the court.’ – Marv Albert
‘Sometimes, we have to turn our camera to a mirror to shoot something, and people think, ‘Oh, that’s very stylish.’ Yes it is, but at the same time, we did it because we are shooting in a very small space, and that was our only option.’ – Wong Kar-wai
‘There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.’ – Phil Ochs
‘I look my best after an entire hair and makeup team has spent hours perfecting me. When do I feel my best? When I haven’t looked in a mirror for days, and I’m doing things that make me happy.’ – Anne Hathaway
‘I still feel like an immature idiot inside, but I look in the mirror and – as a friend of mine once said- this old guy keeps getting in the way.’ – Ray Romano
‘Look in the mirror, and don’t be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival.’ – Stephen Jay Gould
‘I can say the one good thing is for every year where I grow up, I am kinder to myself, and I would say to the younger version of me, ‘I love my body, and I have learnt to stop looking in the mirror at the things I want to change.” – Alicia Vikander
‘If other people think I’m okay looking, that’s great, but I don’t see it myself. When I look in the mirror, all I see is a bunch of fake teeth and football scars.’ – Mark Harmon
‘I learned early on, having known the most handsome, successful, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Robert Taylor, don’t ever spend too much time looking in the mirror.’ – Robert Stack
‘The young people I know judge leaders by their deeds and abhor hypocrisy. Inconsistency and point-scoring do not win respect. It’s not easy to be engaged in political debate when it is reduced to performers trying to outdo each other. Actions from leaders must mirror the values they claim to espouse.’ – Alexandra Adornetto
‘With ‘Arrested Development,’ we tried showing the deep disdain that connects a family. We wanted to hold up a mirror to American society. And, just as predicted, America looked away.’ – Mitchell Hurwitz
‘I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror.’ – Jack Henry Abbott
‘With ‘Hang the DJ,’ I was concerned that it was more comedic and much lighter than we normally do for ‘Black Mirror.” – Charlie Brooker
‘I don’t feel that I’m explaining the world or teaching people anything. And I’m not trying to be a mirror, showing them what’s really going on the world. All I’m trying to do is think of stuff that’s funny, just like when I’m kidding around with my friends.’ – Steven Wright
‘At the end of the day, films mirror our society. It will take time for everybody to open up to this and accept it. They are not instantly going to sit up and change the way they think about it.’ – Kiara Advani
‘Thinking about the new epoch – often called the Anthropocene, or the age of humanity – challenges us to look at ourselves in the mirror of deep time, measured not in centuries or even in millennia, but over millions and billions of years.’ – David Grinspoon
‘One thing a narcissist doesn’t like is to look in a mirror that is in any way genuinely reflective of what’s on the other side of it.’ – Jay Parini
‘You decide how to show up, and you’d better come correct: the way you look, what you say, how you act and react. No excuses! Get in front of the mirror and own what you see. You may have to drag your fabulousness out of hiding, but it’s there.’ – Alyssa Edwards
‘My face hasn’t matured as I’ve grown up, and neither has my sense of humour. In the mirror, I see an older version of myself as a child, although I do have more wrinkles and freckles.’ – Jasmine Guinness
‘I don’t drink blood, and last time I looked in the mirror, I had a reflection.’ – Nicolas Cage
‘Justice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes… You might want to remember this, the next time you get careless and blow off a few Parking Tickets. They will come back to haunt you the next time you see a Cop car in your rear-view mirror.’ – Hunter S. Thompson
‘If I look in the mirror when I get up or before going to bed at night, I see a man of average ugliness with stubble, an unruly mane of hair, a squint nose, slightly protruding ears, and bags under my eyes. But I also see a man who’s completely happy with the figure staring back at him.’ – Andrea Pirlo
‘I was just another long-haired teenage kid with visions of grandeur, strumming a tennis racket or a broom in front of his bedroom mirror.’ – Jon Bon Jovi
‘You can look in the mirror and find a million things wrong with yourself. Or you can look in the mirror and think, ‘I feel good, I have my health, and I’m so blessed.’ That’s the way I choose to look at it.’ – Isla Fisher
‘A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as polarized as our partisan divide: one side holding up a fun-house mirror to folly, the other side reveling in its own warped reflection.’ – James Wolcott
‘You have to find hope. Hope is such a shape shifter. You tend to look in the rearview mirror for hope, but when it’s gone, you have to look forward. You have to get in the van and keep driving on.’ – Jonathan Evison
‘I really think that if there’s any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, its self-consciousness. And if you have one eye on the mirror to see how you’re doing, you’re not doing it as well as you can. Don’t think about publishing, don’t think about editors, don’t think about marketplace.’ – Andre Dubus III
‘I’ve put everything in my rearview mirror and I’ve continued to silence people. That’s how I’m going to… continue to be happy living my life. And in the process, I silence haters.’ – Austin Rivers
‘Some people will stop a scene and demand a mirror and look at themselves and check which angles they’re being photographed from. I don’t do that.’ – Patricia Arquette
‘You see, what is my purpose of performance artist is to stage certain difficulties and stage the fear the primordial fear of pain, of dying, all of which we have in our lives, and then stage them in front of audience and go through them and tell the audience, ‘I’m your mirror; if I can do this in my life, you can do it in yours.” – Marina Abramovic
‘Good posture takes inches off my waist. I have a feeling of lifting my rib cage off my hip bones, of flattening the space between my navel and my backbone. If you stand sideways in front of a long mirror you can see how eliminating a slump gives a more youthful line to your body.’ – Vera-Ellen
‘I’m searching, as we all are, for ways to feel good about myself. Certainly, looking in the mirror doesn’t do it!’ – Ani DiFranco
‘The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.’ – Agnes de Mille
‘The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one’s attention from the problem.’ – Dean Acheson
‘I see my face in the mirror and go, ‘I’m a Halloween costume? That’s what they think of me?” – Drew Carey
‘It’s a huge change for your body. You don’t even want to look in the mirror after you’ve had a baby, because your stomach is just hanging there like a Shar-Pei.’ – Cindy Crawford
‘After Leaving Las Vegas I did assume that things would get a lot easier than they’ve been. But it’s just been a mirror of the way my career’s been from the beginning, so for it to have changed would have been strange. My career has never been perfect.’ – Elisabeth Shue
‘I used to look in the mirror and feel shame, I look in the mirror now and I absolutely love myself.’ – Drew Barrymore
‘People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.’ – Logan Pearsall Smith
‘I don’t think I’m beautiful. When I look in the mirror, I just see me – and, I’m pretty used to me.’ – Melanie Griffith
‘When I look in the mirror I see the girl I was when I was growing up, with braces, crooked teeth, a baby face and a skinny body.’ – Heather Locklear
‘We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.’ – Jean Paul
‘He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there’s another dog.’ – Rainer Maria Rilke
‘Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.’ – George Bancroft
‘Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.’ – Phyllis McGinley
‘Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.’ – Catherine Drinker Bowen
‘Looking at yourself in a mirror isn’t exactly a study of life.’ – Lauren Bacall
‘Can I tell you how strange it is to look in your rearview mirror and see guys in cars tailing you?’ – David Schwimmer
‘I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn’t picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn’t a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you.’ – Uma Thurman
‘Looks are temporary and don’t mirror what’s inside. And usually, a great looking man is so vain. Maybe most good-looking women are too. I hope I’m not! – Dorothy Stratten’ – Dorothy Stratten
‘I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, ‘Wow, I’m really great-looking.’… I think I’m the greatest, anyway.’ – Iggy Pop
‘The only line that’s wrong in Shakespeare is ‘holding a mirror up to nature.’ You hold a magnifying glass up to nature. As an actor you just enlarge it enough so that your audience can identify with the situation. If it were a mirror, we would have no art.’ – Montgomery Clift
‘In my books I might hold the mirror to my own face. If others would like to borrow the mirror, they’re welcome. The books aren’t there to accuse others – merely to raise issues and keep the debates alive.’ – John Scott
‘Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.’ – Thomas Edward Brown
‘I think that fans are always looking for someone to blame. Wouldn’t it be nice if they looked in the mirror?’ – Michael Lewis
‘I can’t bear looking in the mirror – I guess that’s why my hair looks like this.’ – Lance Bass
‘Sometimes, when I’m alone, I put on six inch heels and wear nothing else and dance around in front of the mirror and do my little stripper dance.’ – Tori Spelling
‘I remember him watching me through the crack of a door singing with a hairbrush. I was in front of his mirror. I think he wanted me to sing. He would get me on the table and make me sing sometimes or play the piano. He was very encouraging on that front.’ – Lisa Marie Presley
‘Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men.’ – George Pierce Baker
‘Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.’ – Jane Porter
‘It’s hard to see your own face without a mirror.’ – Phil McGraw
‘Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they’re still alive today.’ – Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
‘All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they’re not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.’ – Yahoo Serious
‘I had a very bad time with acid. I did that classic thing of looking in the mirror by mistake and seeing the devil. But I took it several times, because you always think that next time you might have the wonderful time that everyone else is having.’ – Robbie Coltrane
‘And I usually use myself as a model, posing in front of a mirror as I dab the strokes on the canvas.’ – Cleo Moore
‘We’re going to be treated very poorly, I think that goes with the territory, and you have to get over it, get beyond it and know who you are among your peers and especially among your family when you look in the mirror.’ – Vince McMahon
‘I felt that I had been influenced by being in the city enough and I wanted to go off by myself to see what was going on. I remember going out there and looking in the mirror and thinking I wasn’t anything.’ – Roscoe Mitchell
‘I mean one of the things about being alone is that you’ve no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let’s face it, we don’t often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we.’ – Diana Wynne Jones
‘Sure, being a reservist wasn’t as glamorous, but I was the one who had to look at myself in the mirror.’ – Larry David
‘When language was not transcendental enough to complete the meaning of a revelation, symbols were relied upon for heavenly teaching, and familiar images, chosen from the known, were made to mirror the unknown spiritual truth.’ – William H. Hunt
‘I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he’s guilty; do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man?’ – Jim Garrison
‘If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.’ – Guillermo Cabrera Infante
‘You think he’s going to like you better, but then one day you look in the mirror and realize you’ve changed yourself – physically and emotionally – into a woman who’s totally different from the one he was attracted to the first place.’ – Shelley Duvall
‘I know there are a lot of readers that think I’ve got a very crappy marriage just because of the things going on with Rick and Lori but there’s really nothing that’s been like a mirror. I’m just making this stuff up.’ – Robert Kirkman
‘Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.’ – Jeanne Moreau
‘Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.’ – F. Murray Abraham
‘One day I actually took the list into the bathroom and I put it up against my face and looked in the mirror and I realized I had one of two choices, change the list or change myself.’ – Star Jones
‘I know what it’s like to have someone coming home who looks at you not in the way they used to in the old days, and I’ve seen my own face contorted with sadness and rage in the mirror.’ – Jane Birkin
‘I wasn’t a cheerleader or the prom queen. I don’t move through the world with a mirror in front of my face, and I’ve never been attracted to projects that had an emphasis on what I look like.’ – Michael Michele
‘During exposure, interference takes place between the incident rays and those reflected by the mirror, with the formation of interference fringes half a wavelength distant from each other.’ – Gabriel Lippmann
‘We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror of our moods, or to imagine that she has any concern with the temporal affairs of man.’ – Richard Le Gallienne
‘I know people who go back and check themselves, but it drives me crazy. Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that’s just not the case.’ – Dennis Farina
‘Looking in the mirror to check if my tie is straight is a waste of my time. I only look in the mirror once a day, and that’s in the morning when I shave.’ – Lennart Meri
‘I don’t know whether these people are going to find themselves, but as they live their lives they have no choice but to face up to the image others have of them. They’re forced to look at themselves in a mirror, and they often manage to glimpse something of themselves.’ – Antonio Tabucchi
‘I’ve gone through stages where I hate my body so much that I won’t even wear shorts and a bra in my house because if I pass a mirror, that’s the end of my day.’ – Fiona Apple
‘It is a remarkably beautiful piece of home furnishing, the Oscar. I used to keep it up in front of a mirror so that it looked like two.’ – Mercedes McCambridge
‘I do dumb stuff, like playing my favorite dumb Barry White song and lip-synching into the mirror so it looks like his voice is coming out of my mouth.’ – Lynda Barry
‘In a way, the history of jazz’s development is a small mirror of classical music’s development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form of original music, while classical music has gotten to the end of its cycle in terms of exploring its form.’ – Mike Figgis
‘I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection.’ – Gene Tierney
‘We have fallen in love with the body. That’s that thing that looks back at us from the mirror. That’s the repository of that lovely identity that you keep chasing all your life.’ – George Wald
‘I’m 24. I think when I was 18, 19, I had a problem with it because I wanted to look older and more womanly. I look in the mirror and I don’t feel or look 14 to myself, regardless of what other people think. I’m fine with it and it really doesn’t matter what age I’m playing.’ – Alison Lohman
‘In Afghanistan, this is the problem, because everybody holds a piece of that mirror, and they all look at it and claim that they hold the entire truth.’ – Mohsen Makhmalbaf
‘I keep both of my Tonys on my mantle. They’re in front of a mirror so if you look at just the right angle, it looks like I have four!’ – Swoosie Kurtz
‘Nobody needs to prove to anybody what they’re worthy of, just the person that they look at in the mirror. That’s the only person you need to answer to.’ – Picabo Street
‘A palindrome is a word or pattern that instead of developing in different directions it folds in on itself so that the beginning and end mirror each other, that they are the same.’ – Todd Solondz
‘I also dance to music that makes me feel sexy in front of a mirror.’ – Alannah Myles
‘You see a person when you look in the mirror that no one sees but you. Other people see a person when they look at you, but you’re not that person, either.’ – Roy H. Williams
‘I don’t see any kind of mirror of power, male power, that is, as a form of liberation. I don’t believe in an eye for an eye. I don’t believe this is truly freedom.’ – Sandra Cisneros
‘Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.’ – Paul Wellstone
‘There was a time in the marriage when I could no longer look at myself in a mirror, couldn’t feel I was a nice person. A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself.’ – Dionne Warwick
‘Keep talking about moving toxic wastes, but never let it cross your mind to quit producing them. Keep Judging yourselves in Manson. Don’t look in the mirror. You will serve the Earth as much as she serves you or you will commit suicide.’ – Lynette Fromme
‘When you’re a regular gal, you look in the rearview mirror, and in the bright daylight you see that line around your mouth, but when you’re an actress and you see that line up on the big screen, it’s, like, seven feet long.’ – Sharon Stone
‘I hate to look at myself in a mirror, and I never go and see films.’ – Ursula Andress
‘You don’t even want to look in the mirror after you’ve had a baby, because your stomach is just hanging there like a Shar-Pei.’ – Cindy Crawford
‘I see my face in the mirror, and I said, ‘No, my ambition is not to be an actor.” – Dino De Laurentiis
‘The Democrats and Republicans are the same guy admiring themself in the mirror.’ – Kinky Friedman
‘When I see myself in the videogame it’s amazing how realistic I look. This is the most authentic and realistic soccer game I have ever seen. It is like I’m looking in a mirror. The attention to detail is incredible.’ – Claudio Reyna
‘What man in his 40s would not like to look in the mirror and find Nolan Ryan?’ – Nolan Ryan
‘Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.’ – Bette Davis
‘Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life’s true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.’ – Franz Grillparzer
‘Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back.’ – Mason Cooley
‘The ravaged face in the mirror hides the enchanting youth that is the real me.’ – Mason Cooley
‘The world is the mirror of myself dying.’ – Henry Miller
‘An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past.’ – Pierre Corneille
‘You must realize that I was suffering from love and I knew him as intimately as I knew my own image in a mirror. In other words, I knew him only in relation to myself.’ – Angela Carter
‘Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.’ – John Updike
‘I used to hate looking in the mirror. I’ve grown up into myself and now I’m happy with the way I look.’ – Ashley Tisdale
‘The role of Charlie Eppes has changed me. I never imagined I would play a role like this. I lost some weight, grew my hair and now every woman in America over 40 wants to date me. It’s their daughters I want to convince. The truth is all this talk makes me blush. Me, I look in the mirror and all I see is this Jewish kid from Queens.’ – David Krumholtz
‘I’m very happy with the way I look. I wake up some morning, catch myself in the bathroom mirror, and go, ‘hey girl, you’re alright’. But on the other hand, I find the website stuff, and the polls, something completely removed from my own personal life. You can’t take anything like that too seriously, otherwise you’d end up in the loony bin.’ – Cameron Diaz
‘If you’re working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a point where it is now eating itself. That’s why I believe there should be a psychiatrist at every health club, so that when they see you doing this, they will take you away for a little chat.’ – Lewis Black
‘Something magical happened when I turned 25 – I looked in the mirror and was like, ‘You might not get carded for an R-rated movie anymore.’ Like I didn’t have a little stick figure anymore.’ – Kristen Bell
‘When I grew older and awkward, when my parents divorced and life had gone all to hell, Demetrie stood me at the wardrobe mirror and told me over and over, ‘You are beautiful. You are smart. You are important.’ It was an incredible gift to give a child who thinks nothing of herself.’ – Kathryn Stockett
‘You go to a show, and there’s no food at all, so if you’re doing shows back to back, you can forget eating. I remember standing up in the bath one day, and there was a mirror in front of me, and I was so thin! I hated it. I never liked being that skinny.’ – Kate Moss
‘No rendering can really simulate the way the light bounces off the bronze panel. From some angles, it’s almost a mirror, and from others it’s a matte surface.’ – Michael Arad
‘You look in the mirror everyday and you see the same thing. As an entertainer, you wanna see something new.’ – Andre Benjamin
‘When the OutKast sound changed and I started producing my own records, I would mirror what I thought that character doing that music would look like. As the sound got a little wilder, freakier and funkier, so did the clothes. Then when the sound got more sophisticated, the clothes changed again.’ – Andre Benjamin
‘What this does for me emotionally, psychologically and spiritually – to look in the mirror and not be ashamed – has been very important in not relapsing.’ – Daniel Baldwin
‘I don’t look in the mirror and think that I have flaws. I actually look in the mirror and see me. I see a lot of different characters and a lot of different things.’ – Elisha Cuthbert
‘Never once does ‘Snow White’ herself look in the mirror so she isn’t aware of her beauty or what apparently that does to people. It’s really just the queen and the prince that talk about it.’ – Lily Collins
‘People have the right to say what they want, but as long as I can go to bed at night and look myself in the mirror, I’ll be all right.’ – Johnny Damon
‘I’m a bit frightened of the idea of a full facelift because, when you look in the mirror, you want to look like yourself.’ – Carol Vorderman
‘You have to be luxurious nude. It’s difficult to move in the nude in front of a mirror. It’s much easier to move when you’re dressed. But if you can walk around in the nude easily in front of your man, if you can be luxurious in the nude, then you’ve really got it.’ – Sonia Rykiel
‘My first recognition of age setting in was exactly on my 36th birthday. I have no idea why, on this day of all days, I looked in the mirror and realized my face no longer looked young.’ – Paulina Porizkova
‘I don’t wear a bikini on the beach. I walk around my house in pyjamas. I haven’t seen myself naked in the mirror for probably a decade. I’m very prudish.’ – Carey Mulligan
‘Me, I look in the mirror and all I see is this Jewish kid from Queens.’ – David Krumholtz
‘I love driving, but sometimes, I’m not too good at it because I spend too much time looking in the rearview mirror if I know I’m being followed. You don’t respond like, ‘Oh, there’s paparazzi.’ It’s more like, ‘There’s a man, and he’s going to attack me.’ That’s how your body responds.’ – Ashley Olsen
‘When I finish a film, I like to drastically change my appearance. I get sick of looking at the same thing in the mirror for months at a time. So when a film’s over, I’ll do something like shave my head.’ – Ethan Embry
‘I’m not really that bothered by appearance. I know a few players who go off doing stuff in the mirror ages before they go out to play a game, but I’m not really interested in that.’ – Wayne Rooney
‘In therapy, I see myself in the mirror differently.’ – Ricky Williams
‘In no small part I think all of us kind of look in the mirror and feel good or not feel good about the person we seen in the mirror in no small part because of the jobs we have.’ – Antonio Villaraigosa
‘Some days I think I look kind of cute, but other days I try to avoid the mirror.’ – David Alan Grier
‘To me, fashion is like a mirror. It’s a reflection of the times. And if it doesn’t reflect the times, it’s not fashion. Because people aren’t gonna be wearing it.’ – Anna Sui
‘The first time I made myself up, I was looking at my reflection in the mirror and it wasn’t me looking back. It allowed me to do things I couldn’t do as myself. I found out how powerful that was and how much that can mean to an actor.’ – Rick Baker
‘At a point in every person’s life, one has to look deeply into the mirror of one’s soul and decide one’s unique truth in the world, not as we may want to see it or hope to see it, but as it is.’ – James McGreevey
‘I’m the one who has to look in the mirror, and after a while it begins to eat at you.’ – John Candy
‘An actress in a film starts every day with an hour and a half in front of a mirror, with hair and make-up and costumes.’ – Debra Winger
‘In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.’ – Alice Walker
‘Horses are a mirror of who you are. They’re emotionally dependent on you.’ – Jeannette Walls
‘I dropped about 20 pounds in the blink of an eye. And then when you see it in the mirror, when all of a sudden you pull your eyes down, and the bottom of your eyes go yellow and jaundice sets in – then you know something’s wrong.’ – Patrick Swayze
‘Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I’d practice in front of the mirror and I’d ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will.’ – Tyra Banks
‘It sounds so cheesy, but there’s something very powerful about looking in the mirror and asking yourself a question. Because I think it’s really hard to lie.’ – Kristen Wiig
‘Of course, the genesis of a good portion of the gridlock in Congress does not reside in Congress itself. Ultimate reform will require each of us, as voters and Americans, to take a long look in the mirror, because in many ways, our representatives in Washington reflect the people who have sent them there.’ – Evan Bayh
‘I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called ‘rock and roll.” – Pete Townshend
‘I train all the time and the weird thing is I’m in the gym with people between 20 and 25 years old and I look in the mirror and I look better than they do and they are young kids – either they haven’t trained hard enough or they aren’t serious enough.’ – Hulk Hogan
‘When I was eight years old, I got a dummy for Christmas and started teaching myself. I got books and records and sat in front of the bathroom mirror, practising. I did my first show in the third grade and just kept going; there was no reason to quit.’ – Jeff Dunham
‘I keep falling off the edge of the stage because I can’t see it. I can’t see my wrinkles in the mirror either, though.’ – John Lydon
‘He who has regrets cannot look at himself in the mirror.’ – Eric Cantona
‘I can’t look in the mirror and look at fake things. I just can’t. I’d rather age.’ – Heidi Klum
‘The people we are in relationships with are always a mirror, reflecting our own beliefs, and simultaneously we are mirrors, reflecting their beliefs.’ – Shakti Gawain
‘The film is a direct mirror of the director. If your director doesn’t know how to dress, there will be an aesthetic of the film that won’t come through – whether it’s in the costumes if he doesn’t know exactly what he wants or the look of the film.’ – Channing Tatum
‘I think every woman, maybe every man, looks in the mirror and says, ‘Oh my God, there’s a wrinkle.’ So we’re all in the same boat.’ – Cheryl Tiegs
‘I can look at myself in the mirror, and I can be proud.’ – Tippi Hedren
‘I admire many actors, though I don’t think there’s anyone whose career I would want to mirror sort of by the beats. What I’m really looking to do is constantly defy expectations. I’m very curious to see if you can actually have a character actor and a movie star’s career combined.’ – David Oyelowo
‘Are not the gays who seek the right to marry, to formalise their commitment to each other, holding up a mirror to heterosexuals who are marrying less frequently and divorcing more often?’ – Malcolm Turnbull
‘I’m sorry, but I can’t imagine being an American icon! It would be pretty difficult to look at your face in the mirror and think of yourself as that without laughing and spitting toothpaste all over!’ – Jane Pauley
‘Sometimes I see myself in the mirror, and it’s ‘Oh, God!’ But the minute you stick out your butt a little bit and suck it in, you go from a 6 to a 10.’ – Cindy Margolis
‘I prance around and dance by myself to hip-hop songs in the mirror.’ – Liz Phair
‘For years, I hated myself. I covered the mirrors in my house. I literally couldn’t have a mirror in my room.’ – Christina Ricci
‘Honestly, I am always shocked when I see myself in the mirror because I feel exactly the same as I did when I was 18 getting off the plane to go to Juilliard in New York.’ – Elizabeth McGovern
‘An actor’s career doesn’t feel like just one career to me. It feels like about five or six. Because every six or seven years, you look in the mirror and you have a completely different product.’ – Ron Livingston
‘I used to blame my problems on other people. But my moment of clarity, if you want to call it that, came when I was looking in the mirror one day and just burst into tears. It wasn’t just that I looked bad, it was that I knew my problem was me.’ – Tom Sizemore
‘Given the slow pace of Washington’s bureaucracy, policymakers are often busy solving yesterday’s problems. This rearview mirror approach afflicts Mr. Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress.’ – Fred Upton
‘I wake up every morning, look in the mirror and ask, ‘Am I a sex symbol?’ Then I go back to bed again. It’s stupid to think that way.’ – Antonio Banderas
‘It’s not fair that women look in the mirror and feel disgust because of what society has made them believe.’ – Jessica Simpson
‘One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesn’t work on this mirror principle, you don’t have an exact replica on the left of what you have on the right. It just doesn’t work that way.’ – Thomas Frank
‘An artist’s job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It’s not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.’ – Aasif Mandvi
‘I’ve been out with men who have literally had an argument with the mirror because they couldn’t get their hair right. When I was younger, I might have reassured him, but I can’t do that anymore.’ – Cat Deeley
‘I like what I see in the mirror. I liked what I saw in the mirror before. It just didn’t work in a bikini. And now it does. So I’m excited!’ – Jordin Sparks
‘I realise that I had the best of serious picture journalism. There was an innocence in our approach, especially in the 1950s and 1960s when we naively believed that by holding a mirror up to the world we could help – no matter how little – to make people aware of the human condition.’ – Eve Arnold
‘Put a Post-It note on your mirror that says: ‘Someone has to succeed. There’s no reason why it shouldn’t be me.’ Repeat before every audition.’ – Janet McTeer
‘I like Burt’s Bees Tinted Lip Balm because I don’t need a mirror to reapply. But I definitely treat myself with face lotion – I use La Mer.’ – Alison Sweeney
‘It’s not weird to look at yourself in the mirror at the gym – that’s why they’re there! You have to make sure that you’re doing things right.’ – Alison Sweeney
‘So when I look in the mirror I’m driven by both vanity and fear.’ – Andy Whitfield
‘At 3 years old, I was imitating and doing fun little commercials for the family. Then at 5, I knew, ‘OK, this is something I really like.’ At 8, I was crying in front of the mirror and my mom was like, ‘Oh boy, here we go. We know what she’s going to do.” – Lana Parrilla
‘I work in an old tradition that goes back to the ancient Greeks. You hold a mirror to crime to see what’s happening in society. I could never write a crime story just for the sake of it, because I always want to talk about certain things in society.’ – Henning Mankell
‘My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.’ – Anna Deavere Smith
‘As an actor, we are, in a way, a mirror of other people.’ – Chris Sarandon
‘I grew up in the 1950s at the beginning of rock n’ roll, and would strum a tennis racket in front of the mirror.’ – Jonathan Pryce
‘Women are wonderful, but they get so caught up about their body. We need to unhook from worrying so much. When I don’t feel good, I look in the mirror and think I look fat and miserable. But when I feel good and whole, I’m not worried about my body because I’m living in it. It doesn’t become an object.’ – Natalie Goldberg
‘Sometimes when I look in the mirror, I see a child, then I look and see a woman who should be turning 60.’ – LeAnn Rimes
‘I never look in the rearview mirror.’ – Peter Guber
‘I’ve always enjoyed people studying themselves in the mirror, and I also enjoy those ‘walk and feel bad’ shots. I like anything that isolates people and focuses them on themselves, or makes us focus on their faces as they’re going through something.’ – Paul Feig
‘I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be, whether it’s subsumed within a human being or between two human beings. I want to help us hold a mirror to ourselves.’ – Mira Nair
‘They prospect of seeing oneself in the mirror clean-shaven is too close to a Vincent Price film… a prospect not to be contemplated, no matter the compensation.’ – Billy Gibbons
‘When I look in the mirror, I sometimes think I’m getting old, but then I have two generations behind me so that helps puts things into perspective. I am a grandmother now, but at least my nine-year-old grandson Jude calls me Glamma and not Granny.’ – Stephanie Beacham
‘I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didn’t understand, and in a way still don’t, because when I look in a mirror it doesn’t seem funny to me.’ – Wallace Shawn
‘I avoid looking in the mirror.’ – Marina Warner
‘I shop online because I don’t like to try things on in front of an alien mirror.’ – Marina Warner
‘One day you look out and the audience consists of 65,000 people. It’s like looking in the mirror and one day you realise you’ve gone grey.’ – Patrick Carney
‘Fantasy isn’t something I put into the pictures; I don’t try and inject them with a sense of play. But it’s about being an honest photographer; a photograph is as much of a mirror of the photographer as it is the subject.’ – Tim Walker
‘When I look in the mirror, I am slightly reminded of self-portraits by Durer and by Rembrandt, because they both show a degree of introspection. I see some element of disappointment; I see a sense of humour, but also something that is faintly ridiculous; and I see somebody who is frightened of being found out and thought lightweight.’ – Robert Winston
‘We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, ‘Am I good?” – Damon Lindelof
‘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!” – Sara Ramirez
‘The problem with the literary hothouse of New York City is that people spend so much time looking in the mirror. They go to parties with people who are just like them, and they write novels about people who are just like them. It’s limiting.’ – Anne Fadiman
‘The thing that grounds you, and the thing that really gives you a sense of wholeness, is your family, friends and your community. Those are the things that can mirror back to you what you’re experiencing, and can affirm to you that the stories you are telling are true.’ – Dan Chaon
‘I want to make hand-held music, undiminished by the need to make everybody in the world listen at once. The goal is to ride into the sunset, stereo blasting, and all of what’s got you worried will disappear in the rear view mirror!’ – Dave Sitek
‘When I was very young, I used to clean up after my parents. If I stay in a hotel, I make the bed and clean the room when I get up, even the bathroom mirror, for which I carry a tiny bottle of ammonia.’ – Mark Helprin
‘Like all of my fictions, ‘Sinner’ is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What you do with what you see is your choice.’ – Ted Dekker
‘Intelligent, successful, attractive people can be intimidating. They force us to hold a mirror to ourselves; we can be disappointed, jealous or inspired toward personal growth.’ – Ian K. Smith
‘It took me 13 years to win a Super Bowl. But it only took me one season to win a ‘mirror ball.” – Donald Driver
‘You have to look in the mirror and see that what you’re wearing looks good on the body you have now. Wearing a larger size is just… wearing a larger size.’ – Stacy London
‘Every form, not being the whole, must, of necessity, be imperfect; less than the whole, it cannot be identical with the whole, and being less than the whole and, therefore, imperfect by itself, it shows imperfection as evil, and only the totality of a universe can mirror the image of God.’ – Annie Besant
‘When you’re wearing something you feel comfortable in, you move better. That’s why the most important accessory you can have is a full-length mirror.’ – Carolina Herrera
‘I don’t like to look at myself in the mirror, which is why my eye makeup is always crooked.’ – Daphne Guinness
‘A lot of people say television holds up a mirror to life, and that’s why you see all the drug busts and the killings and the seamier side of life. I personally take the view that it’s not sufficient to portray only negative role models. It’s not enough to say ‘no’ to drugs. What do you say ‘yes’ to?’ – Sherwood Schwartz
‘I always felt like Broadway was not for me – in terms of ticket price, in terms of what was on there. I never saw myself reflected in the mirror of the Great White Way.’ – Katori Hall
‘I always wear beige, black or white. For one thing I look good in them. For another, when I’m beside a star at a fitting, and she looks into the mirror, I don’t want to be competing in any way.’ – Edith Head
‘Romance is important, but to have a friend you can use as a mirror, who can give you an objective response, that’s what’s really important.’ – Jake Gyllenhaal
‘Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi looks in the mirror and sees a playboy of the old school. And men such as Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Charlie Sheen no doubt look at Berlusconi and think, ‘Role model!’ Women, of course, know otherwise. They see him as an aging, pathetic buffoon.’ – Graydon Carter
‘The good thing about not being drop-dead gorgeous is that as time passes, I don’t have much to worry about. I have friends who are actors and every day they look in the mirror with trepidation.’ – Moby
‘Citizen activists look in the mirror, see what they’re really good at and then apply their talents to solving social problems. It’s skills-based volunteering.’ – Jonathan Tisch
‘The extreme side of my personality, which I chose to sort of display, was snowballing and getting a life of its own. It was like looking in a mirror and not recognising myself.’ – Brian Molko
‘People ask me, ‘Is being a parent the be-all, end-all?’ And I say, ‘Oh, it definitely is up to the person, and it is difficult, it can be very difficult, and it can be extremely healing.’ That’s what I have found, that the children are mirrors. Everyone is a mirror, but children especially because they’re day and night and all day long.’ – Melissa Etheridge
‘The good reviews that people have told me about through the years haven’t really helped me do my job. So it’s kind of like, if your hair turns out right you want to go out, you don’t just want to stay in and look in the mirror. That’s kind of what reading a review is like to me; it’s like reveling in something that’s just one night.’ – Val Kilmer
‘You just have to get rid of fear and confront the world. Look at yourself in the mirror and say to yourself, ‘I love you and nothing will destroy you and you’re not going to fall.” – Ricky Martin
‘I have been affected by gossip and I know people who have been, too. I’ve seen marriages destroyed by gossip. It is cruel. At the end of the day, all that matters is: Do you love what you see when you look in the mirror? That is it, baby.’ – Jada Pinkett Smith
‘I used to spend hours at night, downstairs, in front of the only full-length mirror in the house, standing on the table working out what I would wear to school the next day.’ – Clemence Poesy
‘I was just about to begin writing ‘Mirror Mirror’, within about a week of it, when September 11, 2001 happened. I found myself incapable of caring about fiction-making for a number of months.’ – Gregory Maguire
‘Have you ever noticed when you look in a mirror, unless you’re really depressed or something, the person in the mirror generally looks a little more competent, a little more curious, a little more intelligent than you actually feel yourself to be? They often look more interesting and more soulful.’ – Gregory Maguire
‘The story of ‘Mirror Mirror’ is in many ways a story about evolution. It’s about the evolution of a child into an adult. It’s about the evolution of those dwarves into something a little less rock-like, a little more humanoid. It’s about the evolution of history, too, from the darkness of the Middle Ages into the light of the Age of Reason.’ – Gregory Maguire
‘Of course, like any woman, I look in the mirror and think, ‘Oh, wouldn’t I look better with a bit of Botox?’ But you’ve got to find comfort in your own skin. I’ve watched women stretch themselves year after year until their faces are no longer recognisable.’ – Amanda Donohoe
‘You know, the cynicism that is in the politics, it is not for my soul. It makes me – out of me, an extremely bitter, cynical person that I hate to see in the mirror, really.’ – Marjane Satrapi
‘I always find the mirror in the dressing room is where the best artists are.’ – John Lydon
‘When a woman buys shoes, she takes them out of the box and looks at herself in the mirror. But she isn’t really looking at her shoes – she’s looking at herself. If she likes herself, then she likes the shoes.’ – Christian Louboutin
‘I’ve been an REM fan since I was a little girl. I would jump around to ‘Stand’ in the mirror.’ – Kirsten Dunst
‘I was a big Guns N’ Roses fan when I was seven. My friend who lived across the street had long dark curly hair and I had long blonde hair, so I’d dress up as Axl and she’d be Slash, and we’d rock out in front of the mirror singing ‘Patience.” – Kirsten Dunst
‘The problem with the treadmill is I just don’t know what to do in my head. You either stare at the mirror or concentrate on the TV. It makes me ill because I can’t relax on a treadmill.’ – Jamie Bamber
‘A man in a suit looking put together and dapper is very attractive, but I also kind of like the I-just-rolled-out-of-bed, a-little-bit-of-scruff, effortless, not-trying-hard-but-still-sexy guy. If a guy spends more time looking in the mirror than I do, that’s problem!’ – Nina Dobrev
‘I had my father, and he was an amazing man and an amazing role model, so I always wanted to mirror that.’ – Lance Gross
‘Even though I am a lifelong ‘Doctor Who’ fan, I’ve not played him since I was nine. I downloaded old scripts and practised those in front of the mirror.’ – Peter Capaldi
‘Mum left school at 15, and after a few years of modelling and dating jazz musicians, was married by 21 to my father, Mike Taylor, a journalist on the ‘Daily Mirror.’ They had my brother and me pretty quickly and had split up by the time I was two. I don’t really have any memories of them as a couple.’ – Natascha McElhone
‘When I look in the mirror, I never see a handsome chap or the person people think I am.’ – Luke Goss
‘Figure skating has been a great influence for me. I took dance at the School of American Ballet, which helped my own skating. And whether you are a skater or a dancer, without sounding narcissistic, it is all about looking in the mirror.’ – Vera Wang
‘Every girl/woman in the world has flaws. Instead of focusing on your flaws when you look in a mirror, focus on the parts of you that you love; try to do this every morning. You will ooze confidence all day long.’ – Chelan Simmons
‘Even with an improperly ground mirror, the Hubble delivered extraordinary images. When the flaw was corrected, the Hubble delivered images of transcendent beauty and value for many years. So too ‘Terra Nova.’ Even in its flawed first season, each episode was full of marvelous moments and beautiful images.’ – Stephen Lang
‘The biggest lesson I’ve learned from my children is to look in the mirror at myself, not at them. I’ve realized that everything I’ve done has had an impact on them. We have to understand that they are like little paparazzi. They take our picture when we don’t want them to and then they show it to us in their behavior.’ – Jamie Lee Curtis
‘I must be an anorexic because an anorexic looks in the mirror and sees a fat person.’ – Jo Brand
‘The sentences I write have their roots in song and poetry, and take their bearings from music and painting, as much as from the need to impart mere information, or mirror anything. I am not a realist writer, even if I seem like one.’ – Colm Toibin
‘If we want our daughters to honor their bodies, they need to hear us honor ours, no matter what size or shape we are, no matter what scars or sags we see in that mirror.’ – Regina Brett
‘My first trimester I was so exhausted. I could sleep 10 hours, then wake up, look in the mirror and still have eyes like a hound dog! I felt like the life was sucked out of me, no matter how much sleep I got. It was obvious that my body was really busy doing something else and ‘beauty sleep’ didn’t exist anymore!’ – Marisa Miller
‘Being born in Cuba, a country where freedom of speech is non-existent, it’s startling to observe how Venezuela, where I was happily raised, is fast becoming Cuba’s mirror image: Dismantling of fundamental democratic rights deserved by its people and citizens of the world.’ – Maria Conchita Alonso
‘I have loved music so much from when I was little, and I don’t know whether it was because I saw my dad doing it and then I got the idea; I don’t know what came first… But I always had a hairbrush in the mirror singing. I was always with him backstage; I would go out and be pulled in for the last song.’ – Lisa Marie Presley
‘When you write about animals, of course, you are really writing about the people who love and live with them. Animals mirror and reveal us. Dogs in particular are often reflections of us, and what we need them to be.’ – Jon Katz
‘I look in the mirror expecting to be 34 and see someone who is 58. What’s that all about? I haven’t even thought about turning 60 yet, but so many of my friends have celebrated it by now that it’s lost its terror. And I don’t mind being 58; it’s just such a surprise when one doesn’t feel it at all.’ – Deborah Moggach
‘Any form of media is an opportunity to be a mirror and reflection of what we are experiencing more in the details of our life. What makes it fun and unique in a lot of ways is how that journey is changing just by the mere fact of the current time.’ – Mara Brock Akil
‘I do fear for the generations of people who came of age thinking that pop-punk is what punk is, and that all the rebellion you need is just to stick your tongue out in the mirror every once in a while.’ – Jello Biafra
‘I have always loved lipstick. For women, that love comes from our mother and grandmothers. It’s so natural for a woman to open up her mirror and apply lipstick.’ – Monica Bellucci
‘When I finish dressing before a night out and have put on all the accessories, I usually look at myself in the mirror long and hard and then end up removing something. Whether it’s a belt, bracelet or a bauble, less is always more.’ – Joan Collins
‘I had a series of mini-breakdowns where the public persona – this thing, this face, this person who writes this music… I would walk past that person in the mirror or listen to that person playing guitar and I didn’t know who they were.’ – Thom Yorke
‘When I was a young girl, I lost a lot of weight over one summer – involuntarily – and was just really depressed and sad. There was nothing I could do to gain weight. I would look in the mirror and call myself disgusting every day.’ – Tyra Banks
‘If you begin to think you’re something you’re not, you’re looking in the wrong mirror.’ – Gene Cernan
‘My grandmother and I would go see movies, and we’d come back to the apartment – we had a one-room apartment in Hollywood – and I would kind of lock myself in this little dressing room area with a cracked mirror on the door and act out what I had just seen.’ – Carol Burnett
‘As I get older, my skin shows more of how I am feeling, like a mirror. If I am stressed, or not getting enough sleep, I see it in my face right away.’ – Joanne Froggatt
‘I don’t spend a lot of time in the mirror.’ – Julia Roberts
‘In my head, I actually think my songs are pop songs. I think, ‘Damn, that’s a pop song!’ I can practice in front of the mirror with my hairbrush for as long as I want to. But when it finally comes out, it sounds avant-garde to people.’ – M.I.A.
‘I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyone’s perception of me.’ – M.I.A.
‘You lose or you win the fight – and anything in life – in your mind. I can look at how the person walks, how he speaks, his expressions. It’s a wisdom. Eyes are the mirror of the soul. So you can read a lot.’ – Wladimir Klitschko
‘When I look in the mirror, I see someone who’s happy with how he looks, because I was never one of the handsome Hollywood people. And I’ve had success as I’ve gotten older, because I’m able to play characters. I no longer get the girl, but I get the part.’ – Michael Caine
‘I don’t look back. I don’t live my life in the rear-view mirror because, if you do, you’re bound to end up wrapped around a pole somewhere.’ – LL Cool J
‘Some of my battles with weight have been very public. But most of them have been internal. Even at my thinnest, when my body was being praised, I wasn’t happy with what I saw in the mirror or how I felt about myself.’ – Janet Jackson
‘I feel like looking in the mirror when you brush your teeth, yes, I see lines, and then I smile and I see things here and there. But that’s just, you know, you – that’s your journey, you know?’ – Heidi Klum
‘I have a very specific memory of watching ‘Singing in the Rain,’ and looking at myself in the mirror after watching it and perceiving myself as one of those people that I was just watching on T.V. It was just kind of a knowing that this would be the world that I would enter into. And that’s what I did.’ – Kat Edmonson
‘Every morning, my dad would have me looking in the mirror and repeat, ‘Today is going to be a great day; I can, and I will.” – Gina Rodriguez
‘In my job, I am portrayed as a misfit, a grandiose high fashion lady or an unearthly creature. At home, it’s important I can look in the mirror, strip away the disguise and be comfortable with who stares back.’ – Erin O’Connor
‘Since I’m in the entertainment business, I think I have to hold a mirror up to myself and say, ‘Am I complicit in miseducating and misinforming our youth by participating in this business, or can I use this business to re-educate and uplift?” – Hill Harper
‘I still feel like the 10-year-old dancing in front of her mirror, mostly to ‘No Strings Attached.” – Betty Who
‘If you’re sad about what you see in the mirror when you wake up every morning, you must change it.’ – Azzedine Alaia
‘What I realized is that the desire for making ‘Places’ came from the fact that I’ve got this strange situation with having been born in the glitter, born on the other side of the mirror that everyone fantasizes about.’ – Lou Doillon
‘You’re taught from the day you start medical school that you’re a god, that you can have power over life and death. So when your life starts to crumble, and the highest power you see is looking back in the mirror – and you know that power is flawed – it is very hard to get past that.’ – Michael Palmer
‘One day I looked in the mirror, and I wasn’t happy. If you’re not feeling good mentally, emotionally and physically, you’re just a mess – and that’s the point I felt like. It was a change in attitude and a shift in lifestyle. There’s no crazy diet; I train six days a week, and I eat really well.’ – Ricki-Lee Coulter
‘Money is a good thing, but every morning you have to get up with something no one else in the world gets up with – that’s that image. That face you see in the mirror, you got to love it, and you better do some things that you feel good about inside of you. Of course, money is going to come, but make certain that you do some good with it.’ – George Foreman
‘The most important thing is to cleanse and moisturise your face twice a day. Use eye drops. If your eyes are white, you look healthy; you look fresh. Every man should have a magnifying mirror. If you look good magnified, you are set to go.’ – Tom Ford
‘Until politicos take a true stand in defense of marriage by proposing an anti-adultery amendment to the Constitution, stop demonizing gays and lesbians when the one debasing your marriage is the individual in the mirror.’ – John Ridley
‘I don’t feel bad or scared about getting older in terms of my looks or anything like that. I’m not afraid of my face changing. I enjoy seeing my face change. I think it’s really interesting. I wouldn’t want to have same face for my whole life. It would be boring to look at the same face in the mirror for 80 years.’ – Juliana Hatfield
‘Anyone can become a game show host. It simply requires a giant, narcissistic ego and an inability to do anything else. The closest thing to school I did was looking in the mirror one hundred times a day and repeating, ‘People should listen to you talk.” – Kurt Braunohler
‘I think that’s the great thing about zombies, is, you know, going back to even ‘Night of the Living Dead,’ they’ve always been a tool for kind of holding up a mirror to us and showing us something about ourselves that we might not otherwise know.’ – Jonathan Levine
‘I think that when we look at something that’s well acted and a story that’s well told, it allows us to be a mirror of who we are as human beings and as a culture, and offers a glimpse of where we’re headed.’ – Gabriel Byrne
‘Past middle age, some friends suggested that I should have my eyebags removed, the deepening creases on my face stretched. I often examined my face in the mirror, imagining how I’d look if I followed the suggestion. I decided to retain the old mug. I was too familiar and comfortable with it. And the final hindrance: the cost.’ – F. Sionil Jose
‘Sometimes you don’t have the time to prepare yourself for looking good in front of the mirror with what you’re wearing. And then when you go to work or go out, you don’t like it. I spend a lot of time preparing.’ – Renzo Rosso
‘I dress according to the requirement of the film, as a true actor. Off the camera, I’m just me. I have my preferences and my personal style. Before I step out, I look into the mirror just to confirm that my style is intact. Beyond this, it doesn’t matter.’ – Vidya Balan
‘I always wanted to live the lives of different people, portray characters that are different from me. But I could have done that in front of a mirror, also, I didn’t need to do films for that. At the end of the day, it’s this fame, recognition, popularity, the love and appreciation you get from your audience that drives you.’ – Vidya Balan
‘For most of my adult life, I dreaded the day I woke up and saw my mother in the mirror. It never happened. But, I had grown into my father. I shouldn’t have been surprised. Everyone always said I was the son he never had.’ – Jane Leavy
‘I keep the shutters closed because I like to work in a hermetic environment. I like mirrors. When you look out of the window, all you see is ugliness, but when you look in the mirror all you see is beauty.’ – Sebastian Horsley
‘The next time you check your moves in the mirror and reflect on how special you are, consider that somewhere in this universe or in another parallel universe, your double might be doing the same. This would be the ultimate Copernican Revolution. Not only are we not special, we could be infinitely ordinary.’ – Seth Shostak
‘I got scars on my face that tell some kind of story. I’m looking in the mirror, and I got one scar that’s really two scars – half from a baseball bat and half from playing football in college. I’ll tell you, though, after a while, your face gets so wrinkled up you can hardly see them.’ – Kris Kristofferson
‘It’s easy to figure out whether you’re getting stale. All you’ve got to do is look in the mirror and be honest with yourself.’ – Tony La Russa
‘A stand-up’s job is to hold the mirror up to society and to look at what we’re afraid of. That’s why we had shows like ‘All in the Family’ and ‘The Jeffersons.’ We made fun of ourselves then.’ – Tracy Morgan
‘Sometimes I gotta look in the mirror and say, ‘Hey, they’re still saying you’re too fat, but you’re here! They gotta take it or leave it.’ And in most cases, if they leave it, it’s all good because they don’t need to be in my space anyway.’ – Kelly Price
‘When I was little, I got to pick my hair ribbon from my mother’s collection that hung over her dressing-table mirror. I have an entire room of ribbons in my New York apartment.’ – Alexandra Stoddard
‘It surprises me that more people don’t take a look in the mirror a little more often and assess their own relationships.’ – Dave Pirner
‘I am what I want. What I seek to consume, possess, and achieve is a mirror that reflects my lusts and cravings, values and priorities, and moral boundaries or lack thereof.’ – Jane Velez-Mitchell
‘Leadership is an intense journey into yourself. You can use your own style to get anything done. It’s about being self-aware. Every morning, I look in the mirror and say, ‘I could have done three things better yesterday.” – Jeffrey R. Immelt
‘I’d be lying if I didn’t say there were days when I went back and said, ‘I wish I’d done this. I should have done that. I handled this the wrong way.’ But it’s always in the motivation of getting better. I’ve never once looked in the mirror and said, ‘Oh boy, can’t do this one.” – Jeffrey R. Immelt
‘Fantasy is the tendency of Americans, going back to colonial times, to look at the Middle East as a type of fractured mirror of the United States – a type of mirror that could look a lot more like the United States, if, say, a Middle Eastern George Washington would emerge.’ – Michael Oren
‘I’ve worked with lots of musicians – like Tina Turner – and I love when they go in front of the fitting mirror and do their thing, pose, dance. I love that moment!’ – L’Wren Scott
”Man In The Mirror’ by Michael Jackson – I used to have my very first dance parties with my kids to this song when they were little, even carried them around to it. It just makes you want to be a better person and be inspired.’ – Summer Sanders
‘It’s such a weird thing: to sit and look at yourself is so distracting to the psyche. It would be like me standing in front of a mirror and looking at myself all day, trying to find a flaw.’ – Natasha Lyonne
‘As a New Yorker, or wherever I am, I just want to know I can get our of the house in five minutes if I have to and not have to spend a bunch of time obsessing in the mirror, trying on a million different options. Now, I just know what works.’ – Natasha Lyonne
‘I don’t look in the mirror; don’t like what I see; never have. I am not my idea of a beauty. Never was. This is not false modesty. I’ve just never been enamoured of my face, which of course is magnified umpteen times on screen.’ – Lauren Bacall
‘In ‘Mirror Mirror,’ I played Prince Charming’s side kick Renbock, who was pretty dandy, hapless and innocent. Other than that I’ve tended to play the complete opposite! I’ve played gritty, hard characters, generally tough people.’ – Robert Emms
‘I do think that you can dress yourself out of a problem. The way that a haircut and a new pair of pants can make you feel is better than any therapist, because when you look in the mirror, you see a different person – you are a different person. It’s superficial change that can lead to real change.’ – Greg Behrendt
‘I’ve used mirrors in a lot of movies. I think the mirror is an extraordinary thing, also the reflective, a reflection in water, etc.’ – Nicolas Roeg
‘Don’t you think it’s something strange that you rarely look at yourself in the mirror, except to do things like stand and ponder? I mean, in Shakespeare’s day, it was thought that the mirror would reveal something, that it is trying to tell you something – not just to tidy your hair, but something more.’ – Nicolas Roeg
‘I find mirrors detestable; I dislike seeing myself. Of course, there’s a mirror in the bathroom, but it’s a magnifying one for shaving. Photographs are fine, but I don’t like mirrors because they take you by surprise.’ – Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
‘When I look in the mirror, I see my late mother: I have her nose, her dark eyes – I call them chocolate eyes – I have her colouring, and my hair is greying the same way, although I use colour and she didn’t.’ – Marie Osmond
‘Strip makeup lights just don’t give you a fighting chance no matter how good looking you are. Light sconces that flank the mirror illuminate your entire face evenly.’ – Candice Olson
‘Back when I was modeling, the first time I went to Italy, I was having cappuccinos every day, and I gained 15 pounds. And I felt gorgeous! I would take my clothes off in front of the mirror and be like, ‘Oh, I look like a woman.’ And I felt beautiful, and I never tried to lose it, ’cause I loved it.’ – Christina Hendricks
‘When you look in the mirror, your ‘appearance,’ that outer you, is what you see first.’ – Teri Hatcher
‘For American filmmakers, the Oscars is like a mystic thing. For me, it was being in a mirror of my dreams when I was dreaming of Hollywood when I was an adolescent.’ – Bernardo Bertolucci
‘Looking in the mirror is very strange; we see only what we choose to see, good or bad.’ – Bonnie Langford
‘It is important for women to feel beautiful when she looks in the mirror, and I tell women, ‘If you don’t feel beautiful, find one thing that you can look in that mirror and say, ‘That is beautiful.” – Tyra Banks
‘As a child, I was fascinated by the stories of Dickens acting out everything in front of the mirror as he wrote it down. Later, when you approach his work as an actor, you notice how sayable the dialogue is.’ – Harry Lloyd
‘I judge when I need a top-up of Botox by looking in the mirror to see if I can move more than half my forehead.’ – Trinny Woodall
‘The only person you need to be credible to is yourself. When you stand in front of the mirror and nobody is watching, are you happy with yourself?’ – Afrojack
‘I tend not to spend a lot of time looking in the rearview mirror. If you say, ‘Oh, I did ‘Hill Street Blues’ or ‘L.A. Law’ and everything I do has to measure up to some preconceived notion of that,’ it would paralyze you.’ – Steven Bochco
‘People are always judging you based on where you’re from, where you went to school, how you look, how you talk. But at the end of the day, you’re going to have to look into the mirror and accept who you are. It’s all about being authentic.’ – Andre Carson
‘I feel old only when I look at my hands or at myself in the mirror.’ – John Updike
‘I don’t stress about things I can’t change, so if I have a day when I don’t look great, I don’t look in the mirror! I try to fit in one session of Bikram yoga and one run a week and, if I can, one swim, but that’s pushing it.’ – Donna Air
‘As I age, I become more and more happy with what I see in the mirror. At some point, that’s going to stop.’ – Natalie Zea
‘I jog every day, but I haven’t had plastic surgery – though that’s not to say if one day I look in the mirror and go ‘Ugh!’ I won’t have something done.’ – Suzi Quatro
‘Growing up, I didn’t get the talk of ‘Make sure boys take you on a date and treat you right.’ So I was the girl who wasn’t dating and would just text. I dated these guys who didn’t have jobs, and I would always be paying. At one point, I remember looking in the mirror and thinking, ‘You’re too pretty and cool to be treated like this.” – Meghan Trainor
‘I cook and wash, cook and wash. When I am done, the kitchen is like a mirror.’ – Domenico Dolce
‘Our fashion for us, it’s an expression; first of all of life, I put all of myself in my fashion. Sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s bad, but this is a mirror, an expression about Domenico and Stefano. It’s not just a profession: it’s a person with a lot of personality.’ – Stefano Gabbana
‘Scrawling ‘I’m gay’ in lipstick on your parents’ bedroom mirror may demonstrate a personal signature of the highest style, but is not particularly sensitive to their feelings. Upon hearing me utter those words almost twenty years ago, my own mother did what and self-respecting middle-class mom would do: went directly into a seizure.’ – Lance Loud
‘Television has to reflect back to you your own sense of security. It also has to mirror your sense of your own decency and your own limitations.’ – Lee Siegel
‘I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I never took music lessons. I was just playing around in front of the mirror and being silly, then suddenly I started making songs.’ – Lykke Li
‘Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.’ – Karin Slaughter
‘When I was a kid, I used to look in the mirror and pretend I was Elvis.’ – Donald Dunn
‘Basically, an artist should be a mirror, or a reflection of society or his or her environment. What you see is what you can articulate.’ – Al Jourgensen
‘There’s a famous artist, Ron English, in New York, that just, or Andy Warhol for that matter, that did pop art that terrorized society. And that’s, for the last like 10, 15 years, that’s all I wanted to do, is terrorize society and make them look into a mirror and see what the hell we have wrought.’ – Al Jourgensen
”Black Mirror,’ I read that, and I had another offer for a movie at the same time that was a bigger movie, an actual film as opposed to TV, but I said, ‘No, it has to be Black Mirror.’ And it hadn’t been sold to Netflix, hadn’t gone abroad at that point – but it’s just good work – that’s all there is to it.’ – Domhnall Gleeson
‘If you’ve stacked on the weight over time, and if you don’t have any health issues, you don’t realise. So you’ll see yourself in the mirror and, yes, you know what the scales say, but you don’t actually see what other people see.’ – Barry O’Farrell
‘I will never fall prey to celebrity because I am too busy. I have other things to do than look at myself in the mirror.’ – Philippe Petit
‘When I look in the mirror, I see the ageing process at full pelt, the hairline in retreat, the bags under the eyes growing and darkening, that kind of thing. I suppose it would be easier if I weren’t an actor, but I am fairly philosophical about it.’ – Robert Webb
‘I was 24 yesterday. Suddenly you wake up, and you get on the elevator, and there’s a mirror there. And you look in the mirror, and you’re an old man.’ – Charles Nelson Reilly
‘I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.’ – Tracy Morgan
‘I’m still like an excited kid playing guitar in front of the bedroom mirror.’ – James Bay
‘When I look in the mirror, I don’t see a person who’s made the kind of impact that Mia Hamm made on the game. She’s still my idol, the greatest player and the greatest teammate. She achieved so much in so many different ways. What she did for women’s soccer can’t be measured.’ – Abby Wambach
‘You look in the mirror, but you don’t see what you actually look like.’ – Alexis Knapp
‘I was never interested in looking at myself in an aesthetic mirror. My intention was always to get away from myself, though I knew perfectly well that I was using myself. Call it a little game between ‘I’ and ‘me.” – Marcel Duchamp
‘In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.’ – Octavio Paz
‘You know that scene in ‘Runaway Bride’ when Julia Roberts puts on the amazing wedding dress and looks at herself in the mirror and goes, ‘Swish, swish’? I loved that moment so much when I was a little girl.’ – Lily James
‘I’ve always been a bit of a poser. I was chucked out of ballet lessons for looking in the mirror.’ – Abbey Clancy
‘I’ve had all types of beautiful girls tell me that they ugly when they look in the mirror, as if it’s someone else’s reflection they see.’ – Lee Daniels
‘I wake up every day and look at my own ugly mug in the mirror and don’t think twice about it. The fact that other people might want to look at me still feels funny. It’s flattering, but funny.’ – Luke Bracey
‘Each generation needs a ‘Spider-Man’ to mirror their angst.’ – Rhys Ifans
‘I’m an artist with a message, and my message is more for society, casting the mirror onto them and saying, ‘Hey, this is what we look like, what are we going to do about it, how are we going to use what we’ve been through to aid where we’re going.” – Trai Byers
‘I will always respect the beliefs of fellow Christians who aren’t comfortable reading or writing explicit love scenes, but I believe romances are beautiful and spiritual books that celebrate the best of what love has to offer and mirror the love God has for his children.’ – Teresa Medeiros
‘In any given project, there are a few moments where there is the usual disappointment, as it were, when you look in the mirror, and you realize you’re not 23 and looking like Brad Pitt.’ – Kenneth Branagh
‘I’ll never believe I’m any older than 18. I get angry when my body can’t do what an 18-year-old’s does. And looking in the mirror is really a tragic sight. There are many consolations to getting older, but physically, it’s quite unkind. I find that I have as much mobility, but it takes longer to get pretty.’ – Anthony Newley
‘I hardly look at myself in the mirror… I’ll only wear makeup if I need to cover something up. But I’ve recently started caring about my skin. I just turned 60 and was like, ‘OK, maybe it’s time to start thinking about it.’ Before that, I would just splash water on my face, put cream on, and then leave.’ – Pamela Hanson
‘A good autobiography is like a document: a mirror of the age on which people can ‘depend.’ In a novel, by contrast, it’s not the facts that matter, but precisely what you add to the facts.’ – Imre Kertesz
‘I look in the mirror, and I work with the brightest person I know.’ – George Lois
‘I’m not good at dialogue. I’m not good at holding a mirror up at a real world. I’m not good at believable characterisation.’ – Jim Crace
‘Rosewood is what Americans did to Americans. We have to hold the mirror up… and look at ourselves. Sometimes that’s an ugly sight. And sometimes you have to go through that pain – both black America and white America – so we can finally find some racial harmony.’ – Ving Rhames
‘Fiction can either be a mirror reflecting you back to yourself or it can be a clean pane of glass looking on the outside.’ – Neel Mukherjee
‘Seeing outward is equivalent to looking backward in time because the telescope’s mirror is capturing primeval light… galaxies that existed before our time.’ – Richard Preston
‘I’m not really into EDM music; I really like when someone plays their instrument and stuff. But I saw Deadmau5 at a festival, and it was pretty tight, I have to admit. He’s got the giant mouse head on and tubes coming out of the ceiling and giant mirror glass things.’ – Brittany Howard
‘When I first read ‘The River,’ I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it’s much simpler: It’s about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what’s relevant to their lives.’ – Laura Donnelly
‘I had a very hard time accepting myself as a character actress because I wanted to be glamorous and a leading lady like everybody else. I looked in the mirror and thought I looked pretty good, but casting didn’t ever see me that way.’ – Beth Grant
‘I don’t know about the hair. I’ve had it since I was a kid, and when I look at myself in the mirror, it looks quite normal. But then when I look at myself in a photo, I realise that my hair is basically bigger than my head! There’s quite a lot of interest in my hair, which is strange, as for me, it’s normal!’ – Erik Hassle
‘I write about modern people who share a deep sense of connection to the mysteries of the past. I find that I understand myself and my world better when I’m able to peer into history as a mirror.’ – Ian Caldwell
”Once Upon a Time’, ‘Mirror Mirror’ – those shows and films focus on women and their conflict with one another. What the heck is going on in contemporary fairy tales? Women are not dominating the world; they are not evil.’ – Jack Zipes
‘For a North Korean watcher, seeing ‘The Interview’ is like seeing an earnest endeavor reflected back through a freak-show mirror.’ – Barbara Demick
‘I feel like I have a kind of mirror blindness where it’s hard for me to characterize or analyze my own work. I suspect I’m not unique in this regard.’ – Kelly Sue DeConnick
‘In our daily lives, we see ourselves often in very reductive ways. I want to explore motion, change and flux, whether we are looking in the mirror or seeing ourselves in our surroundings. The singular view of self contradicts the act of living.’ – Doug Aitken
‘It’s really important to talk to yourself and look at yourself in the mirror and love who you are.’ – Lilly Singh
‘An object is chiral if it cannot be brought into congruence with its mirror image by translation and rotation.’ – Vladimir Prelog
‘Many objects of our three-dimensional perceptual world are not only chiral but appear in nature in two versions, related at least ideally, as a chiral object and its mirror image.’ – Vladimir Prelog
‘There’s nothing more, nothing better in life to wake up in the morning, look at yourself in the mirror, and feel comfortable with yourself and who you are.’ – Caitlyn Jenner
‘The next time you need to win someone over to your way of thinking, try nodding your head as you speak. People unconsciously mirror the body language of those around them in order to better understand what other people are feeling.’ – Travis Bradberry
‘Learning to love my inner and outer beauty wasn’t an easy road. I still don’t always love the reflection I see in the mirror, but I have learned that my outer appearance does not define me.’ – Katherine Schwarzenegger
‘It’s easy to be critical of ourselves and other women around us. We stand in front of the mirror and only focus on the things we hate about our body and our appearance. But I encourage you to change that attitude the next time you are in front of the mirror.’ – Katherine Schwarzenegger
‘One thing that I really like to do is, I’ll look in the mirror, and I’ll imagine that I’m rapidly aging, until I’m just a skull.’ – Anna Akana
‘When I speak of family, I immediately think of a support system who can give you a reality check when you need it: a mirror reflection of myself. I believe that we are a result of our family – the people who encourage us and tell us the truth about who we are which helps us to grow through their advice and wisdom.’ – Tasha Smith
‘In music, on stage and on screen, fairy tales have always been guaranteed moneymakers. It’s no wonder then, that in these difficult economic times, there are fairy tales everywhere you turn. From ‘Once Upon a Time’ and ‘Grimm,’ to ‘Mirror, Mirror’ and ‘Snow White and the Huntsman.” – Alethea Kontis
‘What do I see when I look in the mirror? One handsome man. No, I see the same person I have seen for the last 27 years: the person I believed I could be when I was a child, the person I have inspired and dreamed to be all my life, and that’s the person I have seen, from being that big to as big as the roof – the same guy.’ – Tyson Fury
‘Makeup is no different than clothes and accessories – it’s embellishments for your face. And it also gives you creative freedom. You get to have that moment in front the mirror every morning and give yourself self-love. You’re making yourself up beautiful, which is essentially self-love.’ – Michelle Phan
‘I’m a mirror glass for the Muslims as well as the Western world, which looks at me in a slightly different way, but they are looking in the same mirror.’ – Cat Stevens
‘When it comes to jewellery, less is more as you get older. Just before I go out to a party, I look at myself in the mirror and take off half of the jewellery I’m wearing. Anything that rattles or clanks is just too dowager duchess.’ – Jerry Hall
‘The problem with cosmetic surgery is that people who have it can only see how they look in the mirror. They don’t realise how weird they look from other angles. I particularly hate the injections that puff out the face, which are hideous.’ – Jerry Hall
‘You used to be able to identify Sox fans in Yankee Stadium. They sat, slump-shouldered, with the same panicked expectation nervous motorists have looking in the rearview mirror at the 16-wheeler behind them on Interstate 95 near New Haven.’ – Mike Barnicle
‘No history can be a faithful mirror. If it were, it would be as long and as dull as life itself. It must be a selection, and, being a selection, must inevitably be biased.’ – T. E. Hulme
‘There is a page in ‘Diary of a Worm’ in which the worm tells his sister that no matter how much time she spends looking in the mirror, her face will always look just like her rear end. Any girl that grew up with brothers can relate to the merciless teasing.’ – Doreen Cronin
‘In the ballet studio, it was such an organized and disciplined environment, like I’d never had in my life. Seeing myself in the mirror, surrounded by the classical music, that’s when I started to fall in love with dance.’ – Misty Copeland
‘I’d perform in the mirror; I’d pretend to do interviews. I’d practice my autograph for hours.’ – Fleur East
‘I don’t look in the mirror and see a president of the United States. I don’t have that ambition.’ – Sherrod Brown
‘I always joke that I want to be able to retire from boxing and still be able to look into the mirror without seeing scars all over my face. I love my sport, but I would rather not have to spend hours doing my makeup to cover up the memories once I retire.’ – Mandy Bujold
‘Once I had my son, I stopped shopping in stores because it’s not an easy process to try on clothes – and I’m not an impulsive buyer. I need to do the dance in front of the mirror, the whole nine yards.’ – Solange Knowles
‘If you imagine b, d, p, and q, those are letter forms that all the children always mess up. They are mirror forms of one another. That feature is emphasized in a font like Arial, where the shapes are literally mirror forms.’ – Bruno Maag
‘I’m not sure how to say this without making it sound corny, but I honestly feel this is the way to run a business. Our work force needs to mirror these communities, and we’ve got to get aggressive in recruiting and promoting minorities.’ – Bruce Nordstrom
‘I agree with myself on 80 percent of things, but when I look at myself in the mirror in the morning, I still have inner debates about the right thing to do.’ – Ayman Odeh
‘For me, stories were brothers, sisters and friends, filling the long hours between childhood and adolescence, holding up a true mirror in which I might find out who I was rather than a distorted reflection of who I was expected to become.’ – Debi Gliori
‘I honestly don’t know how John Allen can look at himself in the mirror and say why he supports Hillary Clinton.’ – Michael T. Flynn
‘One of the magical things about these anthropomorphic animal movies is that we can take things that are so common in our own world that we deal with, like the DMV, or moving to a new city, or our family, and show you a mirror image of those things, reflected in a whole new way. That’s why animals are great.’ – Byron Howard
‘I am a mirror to my neighbor, and in that mirror, he must see a reflection of Jesus. If that mirror is cloudy or distorted, Jesus’ reflection will be so vague it will hardly be seen.’ – Mother Angelica
‘Nobody told David Clarke what to think, what to feel, what to say, what to believe in, who to marry, what kind of food to eat – you know that thing that the race hustlers like to say defines your blackness? But yet every time I look in the mirror in the morning, I see a black guy looking back at me.’ – David A. Clarke, Jr.
‘When I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to the bathroom to stand in front of a mirror. Ten minutes, never less. To think about how criticism is a poor reflection on the one who criticizes.’ – Richard Branson
‘Film is a mirror. I want to see more filmmakers. We all want to see ourselves.’ – Ava DuVernay
‘I feel like I appreciate and love myself a lot more than I used to. At one point, I would look in the mirror; I just hated what I saw… and finally, when I was 17, I built some confidence, and now I try to keep that confidence going.’ – Jay Pharoah
‘When I read the diary of former ‘Daily Mirror’ editor Piers Morgan, I realised it was a tough old world to be part of.’ – Katherine Kelly
‘I don’t think anyone wants to look in the mirror and say, ‘I’m anti-woman.’ They don’t see themselves that way, and you can’t treat them that way. But you have to tell the truth.’ – Venus Williams
‘The bad guy in any good storytelling is always, in some weird way, a mirror for your hero’s journey and for the challenges that they are facing and is some weird physical externalization of that fear that the character is holding onto and has to overcome.’ – Alex Kurtzman
‘So the best way to understand poetry, which is made by men, is to imitate, and that goes back to making work as a kind of doorway into new work, as opposed to making work as a mirror of the old work.’ – Terrance Hayes
‘We look at the Mona Lisa and say we’re going to do our version of the Mona Lisa. We mirror it. But exaptation would say that painting the Mona Lisa would lead to a whole new place… Bugs Bunny.’ – Terrance Hayes
‘My favorite was the one about ‘Snow White’. Those funky little guys with the beards. The poisonous apple. And that cool mirror the evil stepmother used to talk to. You know, she’d ask it all these questions: Who’s the nicest? Who’s the sweetest… Who’s the fairest of them all? And for a while, everything was hunky-dory.’ – Kathi Appelt
‘We are afraid of ourselves and our own unconscious minds. When we are building something that reflects us, it’s the one thing we’re all afraid to face. We’re afraid to face ourselves. Building machines that mirror our consciousness is a very frightening proposition because we have seen how evil people can be.’ – Gray Scott
‘Belief is not restricted to a brief affirmation based on imitation; rather, it has degrees and stages of development. It is like a seed growing into a fully grown, fruit-bearing tree; like the sun’s image in a mirror or in a drop of water to its images on the sea’s surface and to the sun itself.’ – Said Nursi
‘It’s very important to feel good, but I know it’s hard sometimes to look in the mirror.’ – Sara Sampaio
‘History is important but… I just wanna sing Beyonce songs all day long in front of a mirror.’ – Zara Larsson
‘If you stay present and don’t look too far ahead – or in the rearview mirror – everything will work out.’ – Brock Osweiler
‘We struggle throughout our lives to learn to accept the shell that transports us through this world, and many of us take great effort to change it. I believe everyone has at least once looked in the mirror and thought, ‘That is not me. I am someone else. The world cannot see me as I really am.” – David Ebershoff
‘I think ‘Holler If Ya Hear Me’ is almost ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ 50 years later, with just a different 20-year-old voice speaking the words. But it’s about access to the American dream and equal lives having equal value in America. It’s still holding a mirror up to us so we can see ourselves.’ – Kenny Leon
”No words – action’ was the lesson my mother taught me: as artists, we have the privilege of holding a mirror to the world, to engage, to question, to bring beauty to a complex universe.’ – Mira Nair
‘Each individual has got to look themselves in the mirror and try and see what they can do better. Period. Point blank.’ – Jason Kidd
‘Different things made ‘Cheers’ and ‘Frasier’ special. Both of them, though, were honest. It was the old Shakespeare thing: Hold the mirror up to life.’ – Kelsey Grammer
‘When you’re an actor, you often feel victimized – you see the end result, ‘Oh, they didn’t use this take; they didn’t use that take. How come?’ There’s no ‘How come?’ with the director. There’s only one person to look at. Walk over to the mirror if you want to know why. But I prefer that.’ – Ron Howard
‘If I have to do a red carpet, and there is a whole team, then it is an hour with the hair and make-up. But if I am just going out with friends, it is 15 minutes max in front of the mirror. A quick five minutes on my face, and I always wear my hair up.’ – Meghan Markle
‘We all suffer in our own way; like, life is miserable. And I’m not, ‘Oh, I’m a stand-up who’s sad,’ but the reality is that just about everyone is quietly unhappy. I don’t think that pertains to comedians specifically. I think most people look at themselves in the mirror and are not happy with what they see.’ – Nick Kroll
‘Kyrgios has got to look in the mirror if he wants to become a top player and win Grand Slams.’ – John McEnroe
‘It can be easy and tempting, especially during a presidential campaign, to listen only to opinions that mirror and fortify one’s own. That’s not ideal, because it eliminates learning and makes it impossible for people to understand what they dismiss as ‘the other side.” – Cass Sunstein
‘When businesses don’t spend and invest, they don’t hire and cannot offer better-paying jobs. Business investment and wages are two sides of the same mirror. If a company purchases five trucks rather than 10, there are five fewer trucking jobs.’ – Lawrence Kudlow
‘I used to go to the Hollywood YMCA when I first came here, and I was standing in front of the mirror doing curls, and I noticed this guy next to me also doing curls. He was grimacing a lot, and I noticed he had an underbite. I looked more closely and realized it was Bruce Springsteen.’ – Kevin Nealon
‘I think there is a moment in every parent’s life where we realize that we have lost ourselves a little bit. It’s a moment of looking in the mirror and going, ‘I need to put on some lipstick.” – Nia Vardalos
‘I can take the steel guitars and fiddles off, we can make it a little more pop, cover ideas that are a little less cowboy. But you got to look at yourself in the mirror and ask, whose flag you are under? For Garth Brooks, I’m steel, fiddles, red, white and blue.’ – Garth Brooks
‘At one point, I kind of looked in the mirror and said, ‘You know, you’re a mom. You’re a wife. People count on you; you can’t go off the deep end into this kind of crazy musical swirl.” – Mary Steenburgen
‘From when I can remember, I wanted to be an actress. I am a die hard fan of dancing and would take my dad’s clothes and my mom’s clothes and dance in front of the mirror. I loved my dad’s clothes, as they had a lot of glitter in them.’ – Shraddha Kapoor
‘Technology will mirror the culture and the psychology creating it. We need new psychological scaffolding to work with. Less fear and more optimism.’ – Gray Scott
‘Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that’s just not the case.’ – Dennis Farina
‘Initially, I just used the guitar as a prop. I’d pose with it in front of a mirror in my Kiss makeup when I was skipping school. Then I figured out how to play the main riff to Deep Purple’s ‘Smoke on the Water’ on just the E string. Next, my old man showed me how to play barre chords, and that’s when things started getting really heavy.’ – Dimebag Darrell
‘Women think the people that I play are smoldering and dangerous. I look in the mirror, and I go, ‘I don’t get it.” – Jimmy Smits
‘Thierry Henry is one of my heroes; he is one of the players I watched when I was younger. When I was 17, I changed position to be a forward, and he, along with the Brazilian Ronaldo, were the two players I tried to mirror my performance on, so I would watch how they scored goals.’ – Marcus Rashford
‘Standing in front of our hallway mirror, I am practising a few poses – one leg artfully bent, the opposite shoulder up – when the man of the house strides in and decides to share: a) I look like I have dislocated my shoulder and b) Has anyone ever told me I strongly resemble Tom Cruise?’ – Twinkle Khanna
‘There isn’t a day when I don’t look in the mirror and think, ‘How in the hell did I become a conservative Republican?’ It’s still a weird reckoning, because it shouldn’t have happened.’ – Andrew Breitbart
‘Some actors are what I call more like mirror actors, which means that they do a performance at home in front of the mirror, and then they go deliver it. I’m not that type.’ – Stellan Skarsgard
‘Like the way we get to know about the society of Korea, Iran, and other countries through their films, people will get to know about our country. Our films are a mirror of our society.’ – Nawazuddin Siddiqui
‘I look in the mirror, and I’m a plus-size girl, but I got it going on.’ – Chrissy Metz
‘It’s really important to look at yourself in the mirror and have a conversation. Tell yourself you’re beautiful every single day. Even if you’re not feeling that great in an outfit, but you like how your hair looks, focus on that.’ – Normani Kordei
‘For me, hip-hop was a mirror when young-adult books were not. I could see myself in a Nas song more than I could see myself in a book.’ – Angie Thomas
‘I’ve worked with some people that just spent hours and hours and hours in the mirror, and just so much importance is based on that. And I do find that sad.’ – Sherilyn Fenn
‘Thanks to an immersive lifestyle that involves Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, we’ve created a psychological three-sided mirror for our social impact on others.’ – Greg Gutfeld
‘I find if you can look in the mirror and see something other than the face you see every day, it can free you up in terms of who you play. Wearing a mask can free you up.’ – Michael Stuhlbarg
‘While faith need not be monolithic – it can motivate both voting behavior and character development – focus matters. A Christianity constantly looking for political answers to moral and spiritual problems gives believers an excuse to blame other people when they should be looking in the mirror.’ – J. D. Vance
‘When you stand up in the morning, you look in the mirror and say, ‘I’m black.’ No. You wake up and you see yourself as a human being in the world, but you raise discussion and raise aggression, the anger that you confront every day of your life, whether you want to or not.’ – Raoul Peck
‘After giving birth, I never brushed my hair, my teeth, or took a shower. I looked in the mirror one day and was really depressed.’ – Kendra Wilkinson
‘I’ve done everything I can in my life to be the best person I can be, and I can look in the mirror and say that.’ – Kendra Wilkinson
‘In life, there’s a ladder sometimes, and maybe at the top, there’s a mirror. You take a step up, then maybe three steps down… just because you don’t want to face the decloaking in the mirror.’ – Forest Whitaker
‘The ’50 Shades’ series is a Cinderella story, where the characters seemingly have no flaws. The ‘Crossfire’ series is very different in that these two characters are almost mirror images of each other.’ – Sylvia Day
‘It makes a huge difference in how you feel, the way your costume holds you. When you look at yourself in the mirror, it makes you feel a certain way. Actors like to talk a lot about working from the inside out, but there’s a lot to be said also about working from the outside in. It can be extremely helpful.’ – Jean Smart
‘I literally used to stare at my face in the mirror with hate and anger. I’d focus on those gigantic zits and just wail about what a monster I was, how I would never have a career because of my gross skin. I couldn’t pass a mirror with out thinking about how hideous my skin was and how I wished I was someone else, someone with perfect skin.’ – Stephanie Beatriz
‘I have to look at myself in the mirror and tell myself that I’m beautiful, even if I don’t necessarily believe it.’ – Alex Morgan
‘Being critical of yourself is important sometimes: not during the season, because you need to be confident, but during the winter, it’s always a good time to look at yourself in the mirror and say, ‘This, this, and this I need to improve.’ That’s how it is.’ – Jean-Eric Vergne
‘I don’t have a rear-view mirror.’ – Jimmy Iovine
‘It’s rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there’s constantly a mirror on you.’ – Omari Hardwick
‘It’s a fantastic mirror to us to engage with art, to engage with paintings that are about tragedy, to go see Shakespearean comedies, to read a Greek play… We have always investigated the lightness and darkness of the human soul, in all these forms. So why not do it on television?’ – Holly Hunter
‘I’m not a natural. I had to teach myself – or be taught – everything I do. I just spent hours and hours in the mirror mimicking Michael Jackson.’ – Ne-Yo
‘A line has to have a certain number of syllables, and the next line has to be its mirror image.’ – Bonnie McKee
‘I loved being in my sister’s room. I really admired her and wore her clothes to play in, played with her dolls, played with her makeup. She had a mirror with settings to see what you would look like in different lighting. I thought that was amazing.’ – Chelsea Manning
‘Although baseball actually began as a game played largely by urban toughs, its image was soon reconstructed to mirror the country’s pastoral myth.’ – David Grann
‘When you look in the mirror at the end of the day, make sure you feel good about what you see.’ – Frankie Faison
‘My favorite show tune has got to be Stephen Sondheim’s ‘I Remember Sky.’ It’s probably the saddest song of all time; I sing it to myself in the mirror. No, I am kidding. That’s the joke.’ – Laura Benanti
‘Every time you do a true story – and I’ve done a few – you have to look in the mirror and say, ‘That’s close enough. I’m comfortable with this.’ You’re always going to compress time; you’re going to change the order of things. But I don’t think you want to tell a big lie. You want to think that you’re embracing the truth.’ – John Lee Hancock
‘I am an actor and this is holding the mirror up to nature, as it were.’ – Harry Dean Stanton
‘How girls perceive themselves is interesting, and how they act when they’re looking in the mirror.’ – Petra Collins
‘Everyone has a mirror face that’s so different from their natural face. And I think it’s interesting, seeing the way people want to be viewed when they’re putting themselves together.’ – Petra Collins
‘A lot of time when you’re out injured is spent with internal reflection and kind of looking at yourself in the mirror and deciding who you want to be and where you fit in.’ – Seth Rollins
‘I look at the way that my kids interact with technology, and it becomes a mirror to the ways in which I myself interact with technology. I can see the ways in which that addiction and compulsion starts to settle in on them, and it’s much more unnerving to see it in them than it is to experience it myself.’ – Franklin Foer
‘Sometimes I wake up and look in the mirror and am like, ‘Whoa!’ I don’t know if I’m having more fun, but I’m having a lot of fun.’ – Natalia Dyer
‘I’ve been thinking a lot about the speed and spectacle in today’s fashion industry, because they seem to mirror stresses in other creative fields.’ – Anna Wintour
‘I was shy at dancing. I practice at home. I was practicing in the mirror. Dancing everywhere. Then I just started feeling good. I started feeling coordinated. I started feeling the music better.’ – Rob Gronkowski
‘I truly found myself beautiful and thought that I had the potential to model, so I always would do little poses in the mirror and things, but I never expected it to come to this.’ – Selah Louise Marley
‘Nothing I do is didactic. I just want to hold up a mirror and say, ‘This is who we are.” – Dee Rees
‘There’s an innate feeling when I choreograph in juxtaposition to how I feel as a dancer. When I choreograph, I never really look into the mirror. But as dancers, we always check ourselves in the mirror. I do feel that when I choreograph, I am making a dance on my own body. Much of it is my own response to the music.’ – Justin Peck
‘I’d eat, eat, eat, not exercise, go to sleep, eat and eat. I looked up in the mirror and said I had to make a change if I was going to continue to live.’ – Biz Markie
‘Cubans can be as conversant as any Netflix-and-chill American about popular shows like ‘House of Cards’ or ‘Black Mirror’, and they drop allusions to the ‘Lannisters’ and ‘Omar Little’ constantly.’ – Antonio Garcia Martinez
‘I think I became an actress because I didn’t know who I was, and I certainly didn’t like the person I saw when I looked in the mirror.’ – Trudie Styler
‘I’ve always waitressed between roles. When ‘Black Mirror’ was on, I was still flipping burgers. Customers would recognise me while asking for extra ketchup, which was pretty embarrassing.’ – Chloe Pirrie
‘As much as we like to pretend we’re just getting on stage and whatever, it’s like, no, I practiced in front of the mirror my whole life.’ – Kelela
‘One of my earliest memories was when I was three, going to this full-length mirror in my parents’ bathroom and saying into the mirror, ‘You are going to be an actress.” – Katherine Waterston
‘I like to create something that’s unique and kind of true to myself and authentic and everything. I don’t really like to mirror myself after different artists.’ – Daya
‘When you hit your 40s, you’re walking around, and you realize, ‘Oh, my God, men don’t look at me anymore.’ Or sometimes you can feel really good, and then you look in the mirror, and you’re like, ‘Oh, Jesus, that’s my face now!’ But I have tell you that something happened and shifted inside of me.’ – Pamela Adlon
”Choli Ke Peeche’ and ‘Ek Doh Teen’ were my favourite numbers as a kid. I was a huge fan of Madhuri Dixit and would spend hours looking into the mirror and aping her expressions, believing that the mirror was the camera!’ – Karishma Tanna
‘The rich emotional tapestry of being a mother, becoming a mother, connects you to your own mother. I didn’t realize how much I’d become her. I pass a mirror, and am surprised by how much I look like her.’ – Maya Soetoro-Ng
‘My mom made me look in the mirror every day and say three things that I loved about myself. At first, I couldn’t name anything. It was so sad. When my mom made me do that, I looked in the mirror, and I literally couldn’t name one thing that I loved about myself.’ – Lauren Alaina
‘My mom decided that she wanted to put the mirror ball trophy on the coffee table in the center of our living room. When people walk in, it’s kind of like, ‘Uh.’ It’s a little weird. Maybe we should put it in the corner or something.’ – Laurie Hernandez
‘Every movie that I’m in is very different in terms of aesthetic and costume. I mean, from ‘Mirror, Mirror’ to ‘Mortal Instruments,’ I went from dressy dresses to leather and heels and tight, sexy, chic outfits.’ – Lily Collins
‘I sang for ‘Mirror Mirror.’ I love singing.’ – Lily Collins
‘I believe that good television should be challenging and frustrating and maddening and thrilling. If you just want to see people who look like you and think like you and do what you would do in any given situation, you’d have to stop looking at TV and start looking in a mirror. But would that be as much fun?’ – Shonda Rhimes
‘There’s something very surreal about driving a truck, looking in the rearview mirror, and seeing 20 cop cars behind you. Even though you know, ‘We’re just shooting. This is just a scene; we’re making a movie here,’ it’s very unsettling.’ – Malcolm-Jamal Warner
‘Period pieces hold up a mirror to the world that we live in.’ – Rachel Brosnahan
‘If there is any action that punishes imports to the North American market and encourages U.S. exports, you have to reflect it in a mirror action to counteract the change of incentives that this would make for activity and investment in Mexico.’ – Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal
‘I spent quite a lot of time in front of the bathroom mirror. Nearby, there was a stack of books. My favorites were ‘The Death of Manolete’ and the cartoons of Charles Addams. I would pretend to be Morticia Addams. I was drawn to her. I used to pull my eyes back and see how I’d look with slanted eyelids.’ – Anjelica Huston
‘People often think that looking in the mirror is about narcissism. Children look at their reflection to see who they are. And they want to see what they can do with it, how plastic they can be, if they can touch their nose with their tongue, or what it looks like when they cross their eyes.’ – Anjelica Huston
‘One thing my mother did is that she never looked in the mirror and said, ‘I’m so fat,’or ‘I’m so ugly. I need to go on a diet.’ Projecting that onto yourself is only going to make your daughter or son think that of themselves. Because they’re a product of you.’ – Ashley Graham
‘Confidence starts at home, and something my mother never did was look in the mirror and say she was ugly or fat.’ – Ashley Graham
‘Our wishes are our most reliable mirror, and the black-and-white movies I’m most drawn to are about artists who suffer because art is a noble thing; suffering is such a small price to pay for the imagination.’ – Hilton Als
‘If you’re a poor white person and your life sucks, it’s easy for you to blame Hispanics cos you don’t want to look in the mirror and say, ‘I’m the reason my life sucks.’ The Republicans do a good job exploiting that.’ – Charles Barkley
‘On ‘Black Mirror,’ we don’t tend to deal with big, powerful people, because when you look at a Weinstein or something, you think, ‘Is he capable of feeling anything?” – Charlie Brooker
‘God, people say ‘Black Mirror’ was horrible – it’s nothing compared to the stuff that happens in ‘Grimms’ Fairy Tales.’ It’s mind-bending.’ – Charlie Brooker
‘I do feel there is a very rabid young base for ‘Black Mirror’ that will very much identify with the daughter character because of the invasiveness they feel with their parents trying to control their moves on social media.’ – Rosemarie DeWitt
‘I know more about ‘Moana’ and ‘Coco’ these days than I do about anything hip and cool like ‘Black Mirror’.’ – Rosemarie DeWitt
‘I think what’s so brilliant about ‘Black Mirror’ is that it is a mirror into our own messed-up psyches.’ – Rosemarie DeWitt
‘I’ve always lived in New York; I never moved to L.A. I was developing and producing and writing a pilot for a year. That took me out of everything for over a year. When that sadly didn’t go forward, I shot ‘Black Mirror’ right after that.’ – Cristin Milioti
‘I always had a relationship with God as early as 8 years old. I can remember having these conversations with God. I’d go in the bathroom and look in the mirror and talk to myself, but then I knew I was not the only one present.’ – IronE Singleton
‘We vainly fancy ourselves above the ugly informing and paranoia of the right-wing McCarthy era, but in the 21st century, the Left has fashioned a mirror image.’ – Lionel Shriver
‘It’s going to take each of us coming together to muster the strength to look in the mirror and ask, ‘How can I help create a sustainable health care system for the 21st century?” – Matthew Heineman
‘The demonization of people who don’t have a voice is particularly despicable, and the only thing we can do in our own little way is hold a mirror up to society and kind of say we’re better than that.’ – Liam Cunningham
‘I don’t always feel sexy even though I have to look it, and I’ve just learned to go into on-and-off mode. I’m a mom at home, and then I go into work, and it’s nice to have that contrast. I see a different person in the mirror when I’m at work with hair and makeup than when I’m home.’ – Doutzen Kroes
‘Sometimes it’s a struggle to keep up with my own photos, where the lighting is perfect, the makeup is done, and the images have been retouched. That’s not what I see when I look in the mirror!’ – Doutzen Kroes
‘The story of Alexander Hamilton lends itself to hip-hop treatment. Hamilton’s personality is driven and unrelenting, and the music has that same quality. The music and the man mirror each other.’ – Ron Chernow
‘As you get older, your skin tone will change, and that means the colours that suit you best change, too. Take a trip to a department store and ask for advice, or simply hold colours close to your face in the mirror, as this should give you a good idea of what works.’ – John Rocha
‘Next time you look in the mirror, close your eyes and ask yourself when you feel like the best version of you. When you open them, act on that.’ – Leandra Medine
‘I don’t hate what I see when I look in the mirror. Even if legions of others don’t agree. I have accepted the reflection that reliably bounces back at me for its perks and its flaws.’ – Leandra Medine
‘I always often say, when I was a kid, I wasn’t just playing with baby dolls. I was standing in the mirror with brush in my hand as a microphone singing songs.’ – Renee Elise Goldsberry
‘If I look in the mirror, my body is absolutely perfect. I think not enough women feel that way.’ – Lauren Gibbs
‘As Democrats, when we try to determine who or what allowed Donald Trump to become president, we should look in the mirror.’ – Jason Kander
‘I have always believed that your face is a mirror to your nature.’ – Sridevi
‘I know, ultimately, I want to help effect change; otherwise, I would look at myself in the mirror every day and think, ‘What in the world am I doing with my life?” – Yara Shahidi
‘I remember, as a child, lying in my bed at night praying that I would wake up the next day and be a girl, to be my authentic self, and to just have my family be proud of me. I remember looking into the mirror struggling to say just two words, ‘I’m transgender.” – Sarah McBride
‘I was called ‘fat’ 200 times on shoots and had serious trouble fitting in the clothes at fashion shows. All these things break you down to a point where you look in the mirror and don’t like what you see.’ – Iskra Lawrence
‘Change the conversation you’re having in the mirror with yourself… if you hear someone who is saying something that is bringing them down, stop it. Don’t be passive. Actually, take action and say, ‘I wouldn’t speak to my best friend like that.” – Iskra Lawrence
‘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.’ – Iskra Lawrence
‘I know, when I was younger, I would look in the mirror every single day and hate what I saw.’ – Iskra Lawrence
‘Children of color need a mirror to see themselves in. And then people who don’t have that experience, they need a window. They need a really personalized way to see what people who are different from them are going through.’ – Tomi Adeyemi
‘I loved being my father’s audience and watching him in front of the mirror as he talked to himself made up like a clown.’ – Claude Picasso
‘If you want to fit in, you try to mirror whatever anyone wants from you.’ – Abi Morgan
‘All the science fiction I loved as a kid was holding up a mirror to society and warning us about the need for course correction.’ – Laeta Kalogridis
‘I definitely went through a period where I don’t want to say I hated myself, but I hated what I saw in the mirror. I would try to cover it up, and it wasn’t until I started doing sports – until after London 2012 – that I kind of started getting more of that confidence in my body and appreciating my body.’ – Oksana Masters
‘I think a villain who starts his morning looking in the mirror, wringing his hands, and going, ‘How can I be evil today?’ is not an interesting villain. An interesting villain is a person who you understand on some level, I think.’ – Michael McKean
‘I used to not walk out the door; I was so afraid. Everything from, ‘You shouldn’t be here,’ down to, ‘Girl, don’t wear those pants.’ I was so sad. I tried my best to not even look in a mirror!’ – Keala Settle
‘I wake up in the morning, and I look in a mirror, and I go, ‘Is this really all I got? Is this all the universe has given me?” – Keala Settle
‘I developed slight body dysmorphia – when I would break out, I couldn’t look at myself in the mirror for a couple of months at a time. I remember doing my makeup before school in the dark, which is an awful idea, but it’s because I didn’t want to see myself in that bright light.’ – Lili Reinhart
‘True story – I had index cards; I would write things on them and post them on the mirror in the bathroom. And I would speak it. Because you have to speak life. You have to speak what you want. You have to watch what you say because it’s power in your tongue.’ – Fantasia Barrino
‘There must be times when people look in the mirror and they realize they’re 60.’ – Andrew Sean Greer
‘I got teased and taunted about my night-shaded skin, and my one prayer to God, the miracle worker, was that I would wake up lighter-skinned. The morning would come, and I would be so excited about seeing my new skin that I would refuse to look down at myself until I was in front of a mirror because I wanted to see my fair face first.’ – Lupita Nyong’o
‘Looking in a mirror and telling yourself to feel better doesn’t work when you’re a girl, but finding something that you love to do, something that makes you a better person like volunteering to help others, will definitely make a difference.’ – Su-chin Pak
‘I give myself pep talks. I have to tell myself how sexy I am – literally every day. I do. I look in the mirror and say, ‘You are so sexy,’ because everything else in my body is telling me, ‘No, you’re not.” – Alex Wolff
‘Titan has rivers and lakes of liquid methane and ethane, methane weather systems of clouds and storms that mirror Earth’s hydrologic cycle, and seasonal cycles that rival Earth’s in complexity.’ – David Grinspoon
‘I think from going to fittings once a week and having to look in the mirror for two hours, I feel like I built a intuition for what’s gonna work and what isn’t, and I noticed how important tailoring is, especially being a more petite body type.’ – Camila Mendes
‘When I first started doing carpets, my stylist and I would pose in the outfit in the mirror, and we decide what pose works with the outfit.’ – Madelaine Petsch
‘If you have rooms that are very homogeneous, that have all had the same life experiences and educational backgrounds, and they’re all relatively wealthy, their perspective on the world is going to mirror what they already know. That can be dangerous when we’re making systems that will affect so many diverse populations.’ – Kate Crawford
‘I was in Italy on vacation, and I saw my reflection in a mirror. I saw how unique my skin was and why people stop me on the street to ask about it. I started falling in love with it.’ – Khoudia Diop
‘The religious fundamentalists of the Republican party are a mirror image of the religious fundamentalists of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood.’ – Mona Eltahawy
‘I truly look in the mirror and love who I am today because of the pain that I had to go through to get here.’ – Maddie Marlow
‘The way I need to look, it’s a very personal thing. When I started experimenting, it was to make myself feel happy, to look in the mirror and be satisfied. I never did drag or anything like that. It was always that I wanted to be pretty, to look beautiful, as a girl would want to.’ – Andreja Pejic
‘For a long time after childhood ended and before I expressed my femininity through androgyny, I really didn’t like looking in the mirror much because I just felt like I wasn’t attractive.’ – Andreja Pejic
‘Being in ballet school and being in leotards in front of a mirror I don’t know how many hours a day was quite tough.’ – Alicia Vikander
‘I had to fight, a lot of years, to be really proud of the person I see in the mirror and really love this person.’ – Jonathan Van Ness
‘I remember just calling myself gay was a big step for me, and I remember being in the bathroom brushing my teeth, testing out to myself in the mirror, saying, ‘I am gay,’ and seeing if the world was going to stop or if the ceiling would fall in on me.’ – Wilson Cruz
‘I think people come home, and they turn on the TV and don’t necessarily want a mirror in their face. They want to escape.’ – Wilson Cruz
”Black Mirror’ was amazing.’ – Madeline Brewer
‘The thing about telescopes is that the mirror is the main component. Once that’s built, you don’t need to build new ones; you just need to swap out the instruments. There’s nothing wrong with Hubble’s mirror.’ – Heidi Hammel
‘If you’re working on a novel, whatever you do, don’t say, ‘I am almost finished with my novel.’ It’s worse than chanting Bloody Mary three times in front of a mirror.’ – Laura van den Berg
‘I no longer believe that we can ‘fix’ the police, as though the police are anything other than a mirror reflecting back to us the true nature of our democracy.’ – Michelle Alexander
‘For most of us, art is supposed to do something more than simply mirror the confusions of the world.’ – Michiko Kakutani
‘Black cats cross my path all the time. I’ll break a mirror. I have no regard for superstition.’ – CM Punk
”Black Mirror’ obviously has its own universe, with a very strong fingerprint and strong themes, and I was intrigued on reading. It’s such a powerful piece of storytelling.’ – Max Richter
‘I think the job of art and drama is to hold a mirror up to those things and say, ‘What do you think about it?” – Jessie Mueller
‘When I feel better looking in the mirror, it makes me feel more uplifted. I feel like what that image has been has shifted in different ways, and that’s probably why I’m always changing: because I start getting bored, and I don’t like feeling locked into anything.’ – Goapele
‘We notice in others only those things that relate to ourselves. For example, you could find someone hilarious and brilliant, and I could find the same person idiotic and annoying. It’s the same person doing the same thing, but because we are viewing them from our own unique perspectives, they mirror back to us something different.’ – Jen Sincero
‘I wake up in the morning crying, and I’ll tell you why. It’s because I look at myself in the mirror, and then I say, ‘It’ll get better.” – Ken Jeong
‘I was a massive fan of Amy Winehouse growing up. I decided it would be a good idea to become Amy Winehouse with the beehive and ballet shoes. Six months into that, I looked into the mirror and decided I’d better be Mia.’ – Mia Goth
‘I grew up loving Broadway musicals. I’d put on my parents’ cast albums and stand on the stool and sing in the mirror.’ – Susan Lucci
‘I’m successful every day because I look in the mirror, and I’m happy with who I am.’ – Rose Namajunas
‘I think people are slowly realizing that don’t have to be looking in a mirror to enjoy something. And they’re realizing that watching a show with drag queens in it doesn’t make you gay any more then listening to rap makes you black.’ – Trixie Mattel
‘I’ve taken all the mirrors out of my house because when I’m playing onstage, I feel like I’m still in high school. I feel like that kid that wanted to play in his first band, and then I look in a mirror, and it’s like, ‘Uh-oh!’ It ain’t pretty.’ – Rick Nielsen
‘By the time my attempt to acquire WCW fell apart and Time Warner decided they didn’t want anything remotely associated with wrestling near their networks, once that happened and really cut the cord, it was in my rear view mirror and didn’t care or think about it too much.’ – Eric Bischoff
‘I don’t like catching myself in the mirror because it’s like, ‘Oh, self.” – Lisa Brennan-Jobs
‘I remember Wrestlemania VI, being in my locker room painting my face, about halfway done, and the production guys came, and they knocked on the door, and they came in. I was looking in the mirror at them, and they said, ‘Hey, Warrior, we’ve got a cart to take you to the ring.’ I just looked at them, and I said, ‘I’m running to the ring.” – The Ultimate Warrior
‘I think that’s the great thing about all ‘Black Mirror’ episodes – it really leaves you with this feeling of not knowing how to feel.’ – Jesse Plemons
‘I have hurt my community. I have to look myself in the mirror and know that, and I have to own that in order to grow past that.’ – Killer Mike
‘I remember one day sitting in the mirror with a saxophone, just looking at myself, being like, ‘I can’t do this; this is ridiculous.” – El-P
‘I’m a different girl almost every time I look in the mirror.’ – Hari Nef
‘That’s what we all hope and dream to do, when we stand in front of the mirror with our Goody comb and sing into it, is to have a bunch of songs that have touched people so much that they want to hear ’em every night.’ – Jay DeMarcus
‘When I work out at home, I don’t have mirrors, and I really like it. When I’m not working out in front of a mirror, I don’t have those conversations with myself that I have in the gym, when my head starts drifting in all those dark spots.’ – Katie Lee
‘I don t have a scale; I’m not big on measurements. Until a person looks in the mirror and is happy with themselves, you have not reached your fitness goals.’ – Gunnar Peterson
‘I looked in the mirror and saw a lot of stuff, but ‘movie star’ was never one of them.’ – Kane
‘You have to look in the mirror and really have an honest conversation with yourself and find the discipline to not eat things that don’t agree with you.’ – Big Show
‘Part of high cholesterol is that you can look at yourself in the mirror, and you can feel great and think there’s no issues. But silently, they can be affecting your heart.’ – Kurt Warner
‘Parenthood is so wild in its ability to put a mirror directly in your face and force you to look at yourself long and hard. What a challenge this is, but also what an exhilarating gift.’ – Eva Amurri
‘It took a lot of years of me on my own, coaching myself, to look in the mirror and love the reflection.’ – Alyssa Edwards
‘Honestly, I look in the mirror, and I’m not the greatest looking kid.’ – Machine Gun Kelly
‘The crowd really controls how I am onstage. One show, it might be a lot of young people, super-high-energy dancing. I mirror that. Other shows, it’s much more calm.’ – Grace VanderWaal
‘When I was young, people would say I was ugly, but I never saw that. I would look in the mirror and say, ‘They’re idiots. You are so cute!” – Dania Ramirez
‘I look in the mirror, and what I see is someone who has never grown up – a crashing sentimentalist who alternates between great heights and black depths.’ – Peter Sellers
‘There is a drama queen in me, as I love acting, and I used to stand in front of the mirror and act since my childhood.’ – Neha Kakkar
‘Triple H is a bodybuilder nut. He goes after the bodies. He doesn’t care how good – and he can look in the mirror – guys work; he cares how guys look.’ – Bret Hart
‘For ‘Brow Struck’, I really wanted it to be able to create natural-looking brows. So we found this really innovative formula that has a very specific type of shimmer that has a reflectiveness to it. Eyebrows are not naturally matte, so the point of this formula is to really mirror that.’ – Kat Von D
‘As players, whenever the manager gets the sack, you have to look in the mirror and say it’s not always the manager. It’s down to the players.’ – Ashley Cole
‘I never looked in the mirror and felt beautiful.’ – Nia Jax
‘I’d be in the wrong job if I had to stand in front of the mirror and push myself to go to work every day.’ – Thomas Muller
‘When I have to switch back and forth, it’s not hard to go from the American accent to speaking Spanish, but then speaking Spanish and going back into the American accent is hard. I practice it so much. I talk to myself in the mirror all the time. It’s like speaking multiple languages.’ – Sarah Bolger
‘I love when people mirror themselves in my music, and I think that’s the whole point of it – not telling people what it is or how they’re supposed to feel… but you having a relationship with my song makes it real to me.’ – Robyn
‘My photos would not be as high quality without my dad. He’s a contractor, and together we converted an area in our basement into a makeup studio with a desk, a mirror lined with dimmable lights, and storage areas.’ – James Charles
‘The only time I ever think about getting old is when I look in the mirror. I feel pretty good about it, actually.’ – John Prine
‘I don’t know if it’s a consequence of ‘Black Mirror,’ but I am slowly becoming more and more technophobic.’ – Alex Lawther
”Black Mirror,’ now being on Netflix, can reach all kinds of different people all over the world – with the help of the Internet, rather ironically.’ – Alex Lawther
‘Particularly with Netflix, there are some series you just binge-watch. But I think with ‘Black Mirror,’ it’s a joy to have some space between each one.’ – Alex Lawther
‘One of the things I’ll always remember from my time with ‘Black Mirror’ is the sense of all the tongue and cheek, and very, very dark sense of comedy there, too.’ – Alex Lawther
‘I will stand with unions wholeheartedly, and that’s the problem – the Democratic Party wants to say that, but their actions do not mirror that.’ – Richard Ojeda
‘I’m not going to see anybody else in the mirror. That’s how I live, day by day. When I look in the mirror, it’s up to me to accomplish everything I want out of life.’ – Shaquem Griffin
‘I was always putting on shows for my family or even just myself in the mirror, being a total psychopath, just screaming monologues till I was crying or laughing or a complete nut case. And then I went to college and got my degree in drama, but I’m very much a Type A.’ – Italia Ricci
‘Certainly, shows like ‘Black Mirror’ helped me. I should send them a fruit basket.’ – Bobcat Goldthwait
‘When I look in the mirror, I also see a mother and a wife and someone I am proud to be. I see an advocate. I see a survivor.’ – Elizabeth Smart
‘I’m never going to wake up and look in the mirror and think, ‘Yes, I’ll go out and meet people.’ Most of the time, you wake up, look in the mirror, and want to give up. And that doesn’t change. It isn’t awful; it’s just the way I feel.’ – Naveen Andrews
”Black Mirror’ is definitely my favorite show.’ – Josie Totah
‘Obviously, just on a visual level, as an actor, when you put on wardrobe and you look in the mirror, you’re like, ‘Oh, my God. This is great.’ It instantly changes your posture and how you feel, and it does affect the performance as well.’ – India Eisley
‘I think that there’s still a lot of prejudice going on. I don’t really think it’s only an issue of football. I think football is a mirror of society.’ – Clarence Seedorf
‘I know how cool I look when I look in the mirror.’ – Damon Dash
‘As an actor, I think it is my responsibility to hold a mirror to the society.’ – Nana Patekar
‘It’s very hard to look at the man in the mirror. Because you can’t hide anything.’ – Grigor Dimitrov
‘The BBC should mirror the country.’ – Laura Kuenssberg
‘I still have a picture: three cars, big house, I’m standing there like I’m 50 Cent. I look at it sometimes and say, ‘Look how stupid you were.’ But that made me who I am, and I can look back and see it. I’ve learned. I grew up. I woke up one morning, looked in the mirror, and thought, ‘No, that’s not me. I don’t want to be that. I’m a footballer.” – Kevin-Prince Boateng
‘That was my fantasy, actually – to become a billionaire, buy the ‘Sun’ and the ‘Mirror,’ and close them down.’ – Pete Doherty
‘Seeing myself as female every time I look in the mirror is painful in a way I will never be able to describe.’ – Lachlan Watson
‘In my position, I’ve always admired Claude Makelele. I grew up watching him play. I was able to play against him in the final stages of his career. I have always liked his way of playing football, and given my position and style, he’s been a mirror to compare myself against.’ – Javier Mascherano
‘When I was little, I looked in the mirror and held the Bible in my hand – that’s how I talked to God. I never just asked for stuff. The way I saw it, if you give Him something, you get something.’ – Gilbert Arenas
‘I do not Google myself, I do not read comments, and I barely look myself in the eye when I look in the mirror.’ – Stacey Abrams
‘Not a day goes by that I don’t look at myself in the mirror and ask God, ‘Why me? Why did you choose me, Ainsley Earhardt from Columbia, South Carolina, to be one of a handful of female national news anchors?” – Ainsley Earhardt
‘Neymar has been an idol of mine since childhood. I’ve always tried to mirror myself in the way he plays, and I’ve also tried imitating some of his haircuts.’ – Richarlison
‘I like being able to look in the mirror and seeing a smile on my face.’ – Clint Dempsey
‘You go out and work hard and leave everything on the field. I think if you do that, you don’t have any regrets. You can go home and look at yourself in the mirror.’ – Clint Dempsey
‘I’m not an actor that works in front of a mirror, who tries to repeat her actions or whatever.’ – Sylvia Hoeks
‘You mostly defend with your head, always reacting to the movement of opponents and teammates. I had to become more aware of that, play with much more consideration, the way you drive a car: you always need to look left, right, and the rear mirror to see what’s going on around you.’ – Jerome Boateng
‘I’ve never been particularly happy with what I see in the mirror – I don’t think anybody ever is. And I’d like to be taller, too: I’m 5 ft. 9in.’ – Ronan Keating
‘I fell upon Jenny Saville’s work and loved these great big pieces she was painting, celebrating all things flesh and woman, and with great big Simone Beauvoir quotations written in mirror writing so you had to look at yourself in the pictures to read them.’ – Rachael Stirling
‘I love growing older. Normally, I don’t bother with make-up. This face in the mirror is changing. I’ve got new lines from smiling at the sprog so much.’ – Rachael Stirling
‘I remember I went to audition for the first Daniel Craig Bond film, ‘Casino Royale.’ I was there in this Versace dress, and I remember looking in the mirror, and I couldn’t have felt less like a Bond girl if I tried.’ – Rachael Stirling
‘I’ve never been a rearview mirror guy. I’m always looking forward, always looking downfield.’ – Jeff Jarrett
‘I come from a background where there would be one mirror above the basin that was used by everyone in the house. If you spent more than five minutes in front of the mirror, you would probably get a whack. My mother was so strict that if anyone complimented me for being pretty, she would not encourage that discussion.’ – Sonali Bendre
‘I was approached for acting roles when I was young. I had said that I look into the mirror every day and don’t think my face suits for the big screen. So I will not do the films.’ – Asha Bhosle
‘When I used to work the road, I remember I used to ask myself in the mirror, literally, like in a movie, back when I was not very good at all, I’d say, ‘What’s it like being the greatest comedian in the world?” – Pete Holmes
‘Your skin and your face is a mirror to your soul. When people ask me why I’m looking so good, I reply, ‘My heart is happy.” – Raveena Tandon
‘I can remember back to being 5 and looking in the mirror, feeling like a girl and wanting that. But growing up in Rochester, there were limited resources. I’d never met a trans person before.’ – Teddy Geiger
‘I don’t get dressed for other people. I get dressed for what I see in the mirror. My body isn’t for other people’s consumption. If I smile when I look in the mirror, then great. Let’s start the day.’ – Nicole Byer
‘I have plenty of good people around me I can talk to and for me it’s the man in the mirror that gives the answers if I have hard times or if I doubt.’ – Valtteri Bottas
‘Art is supposed to hold up a mirror to its audience and ask, ‘What do you believe? What do you think? What do you feel?’ and if you look at a painting and it makes you feel nothing, that’s a feeling as well.’ – Chris Sullivan
‘People can say what they want to say, but at the end of the day, I can look at myself in the mirror. I know how hard I fought. I know how many storylines I pitched. I know how hard I worked in the ring.’ – Michelle McCool
‘When I come home, I always look in the mirror and I want to see where I could do better, where I can improve.’ – Nemanja Matic
‘Sometimes, I can be crying my eyes out, wanting to die, and then I’ll walk by a mirror and see myself and just bust out laughing.’ – Tierra Whack
‘I suffer from reverse body dysmorphia. When I look in the mirror I see somebody slimmer. It’s quite a shock to see myself on TV, especially on widescreen.’ – Deborah Meaden
‘I look in the mirror and see lines, but I have earned those lines. It has taken me 59 years to get them and I am not losing them now.’ – Deborah Meaden
‘I have cared for loved ones nearly all my life, so when I look in the mirror, I see a caregiver looking back at me. It began when I was 12 years old and my father became ill. Taking care of him took a toll on our entire family, my mother most of all.’ – Rosalynn Carter
‘Well, as a kid I did all the Bloody Mary games and using a mirror to scare yourself.’ – Mike Flanagan
‘Many times I looked in the mirror and didn’t see anything. Couldn’t see anything. I didn’t see anything in the mirror. It was me, but I didn’t truly know my soul, my spirit.’ – Tyrann Mathieu
‘I do know that it takes a lot to look in that mirror and fix yourself.’ – Tyrann Mathieu
‘When people take risks and it’s not rewarded, in the case of ‘Mirror’s Edge,’ it’s makes it harder for others to be comfortable taking risks.’ – Randy Pitchford
‘I defy any British actor to deny they’ve not stood in front of the mirror and said: ‘Bond, James Bond.” – Ioan Gruffudd
‘Some of my favourite shows are ‘Black Mirror,’ a dystopian thriller show called ‘3%,’ ‘Ozark,’ ‘Tyrant,’ etc.’ – Varun Sharma
‘It’s definitely something that is a direct reflection in the mirror when you do a reality show. You can see what your flaws are and what you need to work on.’ – Summer Rae
‘What I enjoy the most about ‘Insecure’ is it holds up a mirror to real life. If you’re paying attention and you’re watching consciously, you are able to make better decisions about who you are, the people that are around you.’ – Y’lan Noel
‘I’ve had teammates that are mirror guys. While they want to win, what they’re really concerned about is themselves. In a win, they could be upset. In a loss, they could be happy. All that mattered was their own success. Window people, on the other hand, measure success by the contribution they make into the lives of others.’ – Kirk Cousins
‘I’ve never stopped since the day I came off ‘X Factor’ to look in the mirror and say ‘you did it.’ It’s too much for my tiny little brain to work out.’ – Rylan Clark-Neal
‘I grew up a poor kid to a single mom, so as an African-American actor I have a responsibility to hold the mirror up and reflect our stories. I’m living the dream and also escaped the inevitable.’ – Tony Todd
‘I can’t have no assists and five turnovers. If you have no assists and five turnovers, you have to look yourself in the mirror and figure out how to adjust.’ – Donovan Mitchell
‘I stand in the mirror, look at the plays and try to say them to myself to get ready for the next day.’ – Lamar Jackson
‘We’re a direct mirror of the audience, and that shows how hip-hop has expanded. It’s no longer just an urban thing, and it’s no longer just an American thing, either. It’s a universal thing.’ – Taboo
‘You can see yourself in the mirror. You can see how you want your body to move. Everybody wants to look sexy when they’re dancing, so that mirror will be, you know, that reflection of yourself of how you will look in the club, so definitely use the mirror at home.’ – Big Freedia
‘Definitely practice in the mirror before you attempt it. You have to use your body in the upright position, you can use your knees for support and that’s the only way you can twerk.’ – Big Freedia
‘When I was a teenager I would look in the mirror and wish I could wash away my syndrome. I hated it because it caused so much pain in my life.’ – Lizzie Velasquez
‘One thing I did was to create a Love Yourself List. I wrote down everything I like about myself, and put it on my bathroom mirror. Then I read it until I believed it. Any time I compared myself to others, and felt negative about myself, I’d go back to that list.’ – Lizzie Velasquez
‘Our job as artists, we believe, is not to make changes in society. We don’t have the ability to do that. We reflect life. We are the mirror of the society to look into. Our job is to raise questions, but we have no answers.’ – John Kani
‘We can’t really look back and see what is in the rear-view mirror. This is not how you are going to move forward.’ – Didier Deschamps
‘When I look in the mirror, I’m a husband and a father first.’ – Jake Hager
‘I believe films are the mirror of society we live in.’ – Abhimanyu Singh
‘My hair is massive and fills the mirror.’ – Leo Sayer
‘It’s torment to look in the mirror and not recognize the man in the reflection. How amazing would it be to love someone through their honest and ugly moments?! It takes a journey to work off the mask to become authentic and whole.’ – Israel Houghton
‘I hated being Gareth Thomas. I hated the man I looked at in the mirror.’ – Gareth Thomas
‘The far Right’s identity politics are the mirror image of that dominant left-wing ideology, which sees the world exclusively through the lens of race and sex.’ – Heather Mac Donald
‘It’s as much looking out your rear-view mirror as the windshield. You want to make sure you put your car in front of the right line. You’re constantly looking behind you.’ – Michael Waltrip
‘I love ‘Black Mirror.” – Aesop Rock
‘At the end of every season I look in the mirror and ask myself what can I do better? Where did I screw up this year?’ – J. J. Redick
‘I don’t know about anyone else, but I got really scared looking at myself in the mirror when I got my hair cut for a role.’ – Mukesh Tiwari
‘I know it’s a terrible habit, but if I get a pimple, I’ll sit in front of the mirror and pick at it for hours.’ – Camille Rowe
‘If you look in the mirror and think, ‘Boy, my body needs a good dose of middle management,’ keep in mind that tummy fat could be the result of many things.’ – Denise Austin
‘I have definitely had a big impactful change since 2010, and it’s rough to look in the mirror, but it’s such an important thing to do that.’ – Cedric Bixler-Zavala
‘That romantic notion of a band being a total democracy is just like lying to yourself in the mirror.’ – Cedric Bixler-Zavala
‘As a young woman, my own experience of looking at myself in the mirror is something that’s plagued me in lots of ways.’ – Esme Creed-Miles
‘The hardest part was four days after the surgery – my heart rate was very high, I was choking, I couldn’t cough, and I started crying. And it was seeing the way my chest looked, definitely deformed. I’m a fit guy, I’m a skinny guy, but to look in the mirror I was bloated with all of the meds.’ – Jeff Green
‘You either like or don’t like people warts and all. You’ve got to look yourself in the mirror. I don’t like all the aspects of what I do and am, or things I’ve done, but you’ve got to live with it.’ – Nigel Pearson
‘It’s one thing to practise in front of a mirror at home, but another to do it in front of 800 people or on live TV.’ – Michael Buffer
‘Everybody goes home at the end of the day and looks at themselves in the mirror and sometimes they see things that they want to see that they like, and sometimes they see some things that they don’t like.’ – Mojo Rawley
‘I’m an A-Level player because I have the strength to look upon myself in the mirror and master my reality.’ – Mojo Rawley
‘We wake up and go to sleep with ourselves every single day. We see ourselves in the mirror from every angle. We know what we look like. We know what makes us happy about our bodies and what upsets us. And we don’t need to value the opinions of others at all – especially from people who that we don’t even know, or that we don’t care about.’ – Camille Kostek
‘When I was much younger, I used to practice my Oscar speech in the mirror. I used to beg my parents to be in movies.’ – Sasha Spielberg
‘I choose my films carefully. I have done movies that are sensitive, which deal with some issue and are a mirror of society.’ – Abhay Deol
‘Every woman needs to look in the mirror and instinctively decide what will make her feel happy and good about herself and her body; that’s all I did.’ – Holly Willoughby
‘Take a picture of you in a mirror or/and get somebody to take a photo of you and look back at it, it’s quite a good way to figure out what suits you and looks good.’ – Holly Willoughby
‘I’m not afraid of how I look in the mirror.’ – Holly Willoughby
‘I practice for hours in front of the mirror. I constantly deliver my routine in front of my friends.’ – Johnny Lever
‘I have insecurities, but they don’t consume me. It doesn’t bother me if my hair’s a mess or if I have a bad skin day. I just don’t look in the mirror!’ – Nadine Coyle
‘Women are very different, but the woman I wish to be is the ultra-femme girl, and it’s not something that’s instilled in me, it’s just something that when I look in the mirror, it’s how I want to present myself.’ – Dominique Jackson
‘Once you are wealthy, you are in a nice comfort zone and want to stay there. So I always look in the mirror and ask, is my philanthropy making the world a more just and fair place?’ – Rohini Nilekani
‘My detractors, who delight in using my name as a byword for unattractiveness, will find it hard to believe, but looking in the mirror is a pleasant experience.’ – Ann Widdecombe
‘I am so used to seeing a blond in the mirror that I forget that for most of my life I was very dark. Old photos are still a bit of a shock.’ – Ann Widdecombe
‘It makes me feel great when I’m driving and talking to my wife, and I look in the mirror, and my son is sleeping in the back.’ – Alex Zanardi
‘I couldn’t care less what anyone thinks about me. When I look in the mirror and see what’s looking back at me, I’m incredibly happy. Nobody’s opinion is going to change that.’ – Wade Barrett
‘When I was young, I was a huge Michael Jackson fan, but I would dance only in front of the mirror, alone in my room.’ – Sooraj Pancholi
‘Pleasure can also be a mirror of the anxiety we feel in everyday life, it can have a message inside.’ – Takashi Miike
‘My mother’s incredibly independent and she brought us up to be the same. She had five daughters and two sons and only allowed one mirror in the house because she didn’t want us to be obsessed with our looks or weight.’ – Laila Rouass
‘I have the love and respect of my wife and my kids. I could look in the mirror and I’m happy with that guy now. He’s okay. He’s not a schmuck.’ – Ted DiBiase Sr.
‘My generation spends too much time in the mirror and not enough looking inside ourselves.’ – Cree Summer
‘I spent my 20s earning minimum wage decorating cakes for a living. But one day, I looked in the mirror and realized I wanted more, for me and my people. I saw too many Native Americans struggling, and I realized we should have a voice in who our elected officials are.’ – Deb Haaland
‘Television is a sort of mirror of society, but for me, I never saw my reflection in it. Which makes it quite difficult afterwards to open up all the imaginative possibilities.’ – Maimouna Doucoure
‘If a guy looks in the mirror more than I do it’s a bad sign. I like scruffy, but not smelly.’ – Laura Whitmore
‘I can’t look at the mirror beyond two minutes. I don’t know what to look at. What is the point of looking at yourself? You can’t change your face.’ – Kay Kay Menon
‘I have always believed that awards are like accessories to a car. They are very similar to the rear view mirror in a car, which gives you the confidence to drive. They sure mean a lot; however, they are not the be-all and end-all of life.’ – Atul Kulkarni
‘Even when I was bald, I loved seeing myself in the mirror, loved the attention that came with it and flaunted the look. It gave me a lot of confidence too.’ – Shamna Kasim
‘I can know what Brian Cage is doing before he’s doing it because he’s doing me. I’ve been facing the man in the mirror my entire life. That’s been my hardest battle is the one where it’s me versus me.’ – Matt Sydal
‘I’m never going to question myself or question the guys around me. We’re just going to look at each other and we’re going to look in the mirror and I’m going to tell myself and everybody that we have to get better, I have to get better.’ – Joe Flacco
‘Some actors are constantly on the phone, some are always looking into the mirror while some like to sit and bond.’ – Sanam Saeed
‘Cinema has a large scope as it is a mirror of society and with the mindset changing, people are taking it more seriously.’ – Gulzar
‘I’ve always believed that how you look is a self-fulfilling prophecy: When you wake up, get dressed and look in the mirror, if you think you look good, most likely you will.’ – Kenneth Cole
‘My whole life I’ve been the one to look myself in the mirror whenever everyone else is doubting me. I’m the one that had the most confidence in myself and I always betted on myself, and it’s worked out for me each and every time.’ – Marcus Smart
‘Nobody of us has ever seen ourselves! We see a reflection in the mirror.’ – Udo Kier
‘People always ask me, how did you grow up to be so confident? I tell them, I always look in the mirror and say I belong, you are so beautiful and you are meant to be here.’ – BeBe Zahara Benet
‘As a kid I used to wear my mother’s dupattas and saris and emulate Hema Maliniji or Rekhaji in front of the mirror.’ – Divya Dutta
‘Both Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi never ever stop playing for the team. If I were young today, they are players on which I would mirror myself. Players of this level, play for the team. Players that are the best because they prepared themselves to bet You don’t see these players going out, on social media, skipping training to be in parties.’ – Zico
‘When I see myself – ‘John Collins the Atlanta Hawks’ – saying that and hearing that, hearing myself say that, looking in the mirror, and realizing ‘man I made it’ is crazy to think about.’ – John Collins
‘The biggest thing for me when I got to L.A. was everybody wrote us off to make the playoffs. That was one of my goals. Put that on my mirror. We did it as a team. And that’s my thing: Wherever I go, I’m going to win.’ – Patrick Beverley
‘I think marriage becomes a great mirror. My selfishness comes out in my marriage all the time.’ – Mike Fisher
‘No matter how much money you make, you still have to look in the mirror.’ – Quinton Jackson
‘I’ve never mouthed a dialogue in front of the mirror. I only peep in to check my hair.’ – Vatsal Sheth
‘It’s not like it’s a competition; it’s almost like mirror motivation. My twin brother’s always pushing me to get better and better, and I’m doing the same thing for him.’ – Jermall Charlo
‘When you are dealing with two players who are almost mirror images, the contest often boils down to first-serve percentage. Who is getting more cheap points on their first serve? Who can dominate the other guy’s second serve?’ – Tim Henman
‘I wasn’t happy with my body and I knew I had to do something to make myself feel better. I was looking at myself in the mirror with agony, and I know a lot of women out there feel the same way.’ – Angelina Pivarnick
‘During my adolescent years, I watched a lot of theatre. I had the habit of enacting every scene I saw in front of the mirror.’ – Saswata Chatterjee
”Astitva’ is all about a woman’s search for her identity in a male-dominated world. It is not a feminist kind of approach. Rather, I have tried hold a mirror to the men in our society.’ – Mahesh Manjrekar
‘There was time I was 105 kg, and whenever I used to see myself in the mirror, I used to ask myself, ‘What is this?’ So there was only one solution and that is controlling your diet and then hit the gym.’ – Mahesh Manjrekar
‘As early as five I’d stick my leg out in a rock stance for family pictures. I was obsessed with Mick Jagger. I’d stand in front of the mirror and copy him, and I’d put a sock down my pants so I had a nice bulge. I didn’t know what that was. I just thought it was part of the uniform.’ – Bebe Buell
‘I got up and saw my face in the mirror and saw the horror. When they did the surgery on me, they took out 67 glass pieces. There were a lot of movies that I had lined up for myself during that time, and I had to let it go. I didn’t want people to know because, at that time, people were not that supportive.’ – Mahima Chaudhry
‘Im a pretty normal person, working, juggling a husband and kids and friends and trying to find a little time for me, too. I never wear make-up on the school run; I am the scruffiest person by far, usually with a white toothpaste smear somewhere because some days I literally dont look in a mirror.’ – Davina McCall
‘I must have been six or seven – standing in front of a full-length mirror with a yardstick, pretending to be John Lennon. In my head, I was always going to be a singer, and The Beatles were probably the first musicians that had a major impact.’ – Mick Hucknall
‘I like who I am, trying to handle myself with integrity, character, honesty, treat people well and how I would like to be treated. And as long as I do those things, I can look at myself in the mirror and be proud of who I am at the end of each day.’ – Trevor Bauer
‘You have to be able to hold up a mirror to your personality at drama school and recognise the flaws. That’s hard to do as a 17-year-old. But it’s easier to cope with when you’re a little bit older.’ – Phoebe Fox
‘My first filming job was one of the first episodes of ‘Black Mirror,’ before anyone knew what that was going to be. It was this mad project with some great people behind it – and now it’s ‘Black Mirror!’ It was sort of baptism by fire.’ – Phoebe Fox
‘That’s honestly one of the blessings of having a twin who shares your interests. You kind of get this mirror view of what you’re capable of.’ – Jason McCourty
‘Content isn’t just a brand or message that you develop yourself and then throw out into the echo chamber. It’s a mirror.’ – Eugene Lee Yang
‘I feel like every piece of art is a mirror of what’s going on in the present time, because the artist – a painter, a sculptor, a filmmaker – will be affected by what’s around them, so it seeps into their work.’ – Stacy Martin
‘I was declared bankrupt a few years ago, which really made me grow up and look in the mirror, face myself, and find strength.’ – Miquita Oliver
‘The show is just basically a mirror of our lives, and the goal was to stay true to that.’ – Sal Vulcano
‘I know what it’s like to look in the mirror and absolutely hate what’s looking back at you, and to pick up a fashion magazine and think, why can’t I look like that?’ – Gok Wan
‘I remember reading one blog site where one blogger said I looked like a professional wrestler on the track. I was a big boy. I was looking at myself in the mirror and saying, ‘I look good!’ But I wasn’t looking race good.’ – Justin Gatlin
‘I was so much smaller before I had MS so I really struggle day to day to look in the mirror. I don’t feel I recognize myself because I’ve never been as big.’ – Kadeena Cox
‘I was a big fan of Marvin Gaye, and when my parents were at work, I would get in front of the mirror, put my father’s clothes on and pretend I was singing Marvin Gaye songs.’ – Big Daddy Kane
‘Despite the fact that human beings think that they have escaped the evolutionary paradigm, they’ve done nothing of the kind, and so we should expect the belief systems that people hold to mirror the evolutionary interests that people have.’ – Bret Weinstein
‘Once I came out in sports, I basically told myself, ‘I’m coming out, officially. I wanted to be able to look in the mirror and tell myself that I was being true to me. I wanted to help the younger me, when I was a kid, give them somebody for them to look up to.’ – Brittney Griner
‘I wanted to be an actor since I was three years old; I would dance to Madhuri Dixit’s ‘Ek do teen’ in front of the mirror and recite dialogues from ‘Kal Ho Naa Ho,’ ‘Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham… ,’ ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai…” – Athiya Shetty
‘Reading is a pleasure, yes, but not without effort: choosing to read novels purely because they mirror your own experience is stultifying.’ – Dawn Foster
‘I would have loved to have been beautiful; to have looked in the mirror and said: ‘God you look wonderful.’ Do people do that, I wonder. Love what they see in the mirror?’ – Sheila Hancock
‘You sort of look yourself in the mirror and ask yourself if want to do things if you want to do some cool things and achieve things you’ve never achieved before.’ – Mardy Fish
‘Star Trek and sci-fi in general has always been a mirror to our society, obviously, and I think it is reminiscent of a lot of ideas.’ – Isa Briones
‘I like to look nice when I go out and I’ll put on a bit of slap, but I’m not someone who spends hours looking at myself. I live on a farm in Devon and when I look in the mirror I can see my garden behind me. That’s what I’m really interested in.’ – Caroline Quentin
‘Men in their 40’s grow a beard and presto! They’ve achieved Silver Fox status. Meanwhile, I am sitting in front of a mirror using a mascara wand and eye shadow palette to painstakingly colour in my greying roots, because this 40 year old got a little too comfortable in her skin and didn’t go for a touch up in time.’ – Shweta Bachchan Nanda
‘Every day I wake up I look in the mirror and I say to myself, ‘It’s time.’ The reason for that is I believe we’re only as good as today.’ – Bruce Buffer
‘I see red only twice – when I took in the mirror and when I read that I’m a second Greer Garson.’ – Amanda Blake
‘The Daily Mirror called me a ‘money-grabbing reptile’ once. I could cope with the reptile part, but ‘money-grabbing’ hurt.’ – Frank Skinner
‘You have to do that every day, whether you’re playing football or just in life in general. You’ve got to look yourself in mirror, and say, ‘Hey, this what I’m not doing right.” – George Kittle
‘You can look in the mirror and try to hide it and cover it up, and it may work here or there, but there ain’t no shirt or hat you can put on or haircut you can get to hide the fact that you’re morbidly obese.’ – Paul Wall
‘Mirrors are part of my life and an ever-changing source of delight, displeasure or even disaster, depending on which one I am looking in. I look in a magnifying mirror when I pluck my eyebrows in the morning, full-length mirrors every day in rehearsal, and I often nervously bring out a compact to check my make-up.’ – Arlene Phillips
‘The first thing I notice when I look in the mirror is whether or not I need a fringe trim. I’m not brave enough to cut it myself – I can’t look like a three-year-old whose mum has cut their hair again.’ – Edith Bowman
‘I vividly remember hearing the car pull into the driveway and looking into the mirror on my mom’s vanity with a face full of makeup and the counter below me a mess; it sent me into complete panic mode. From there, I would steal bits of makeup where I could to start my own little collection and play in my bedroom with the door locked.’ – Violet Chachki
‘Blackkklansmen’ is an important film because it puts a mirror up to the past and present.’ – Paul Walter Hauser