Quotes and Sayings About Ugly Duckling
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I am not beautiful. My mother once called me an ugly duckling. But,listed separately, I have a few good features.
-- Audrey Hepburn -
The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It's not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it's about self-revelation, becoming who you are.
-- Baz Luhrmann -
In the story of Ugly Duckling, when did the Ugly Duckling stop feeling Ugly? When he realized that he was a Swan. Each of us has something Special, a swan of some sort, hidden inside somewhere. But until we recognize that it's there, what can we do but splash around, treading water? The Wise are Who They Are. They work with what they've got and do what they can do.
-- Benjamin Hoff -
Prince Charles is the only member of the Royal Family who ever left Cinderella for the Ugly Duckling.
-- Des Hanafin -
In Los Angeles, I feel like the ugly duckling, like I'm from Venus or something.
-- Eva Green -
Then he rustled his feathers, curved his slender neck, and cried joyfully, from the depths of his heart, 'I never dreamed of such happiness as this, while I was an ugly duckling.
-- Hans Christian Andersen -
I never dreamed of so much happiness when I was the Ugly Duckling!
-- Hans Christian Andersen -
Dreams were all they gave for free to ugly duckling girls like me.
-- Janis Ian -
I was always the ugly duckling; I never got attention from girls.
-- Kid Cudi -
I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks.
-- Maeve Binchy -
Women who start out as ugly ducklings don't become beautiful swans. What they mainly become is confident ducks. They take charge of their lives.
-- Maeve Binchy -
Fate cast me to play the role of an ugly duckling with no promise of swanning. . . . I have played my life as a comedy rather than the tragedy many would have made of it.
-- Marie Dressler -
When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.
-- Nana Mouskouri -
I grew up feeling like the ugly duckling, and things have not changed that much.
-- Nicollette Sheridan -
There's something almost perfect in the ugly duckling syndrome. Because a sensitivity is tattooed on a part of you no one else can see but can somehow guess is there.
-- Stephanie Klein -
I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
-- Tanya Roberts -
This ugly duckling investment will likely need time - quarters, or even years - to blossom into a beautiful swan.
-- Barry Ritholtz
