The Ugly Duckling Quotes

#1. I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.

Tanya Roberts

#2. What influenced my style was the feeling that I was a lousy artist ... I was like the ugly duckling, not knowing what I was, style-wise, and thinking I was all on my own ... I evolved into a style that couldn't be compared to anyone else.

Jim Rowe

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. And while we're on the subject of ducks, which we plainly are, the story, 'The Ugly Duckling' ought be banned as the central character wasn't a duckling or he wouldn't have grown up into a swan. He was a cygnet.

Russell Brand

#6. I was always the ugly duckling; I never got attention from girls.

Kid Cudi

#7. Prince Charles is the only member of the Royal Family who ever left Cinderella for the Ugly Duckling.

Des Hanafin

#8. In Los Angeles, I feel like the ugly duckling, like I'm from Venus or something.

Eva Green

#9. I grew up as the ugly duckling, they called me 'la prieta fea', which means ugly dark one - that was my nickname.

Eva Longoria

#10. There are no makeovers in my books. The ugly duckling does not become a beautiful swan. She becomes a confident duck able to take charge of her own life and problems.

Maeve Binchy

#11. I never dreamed of so much happiness when I was the Ugly Duckling!

Hans Christian Andersen

#12. The Ugly Duckling The classic story by Hans Christian

Hans Christian Andersen

#13. I grew up feeling like the ugly duckling, and things have not changed that much.

Nicollette Sheridan

#14. I tell him the ugly duckling grew up to be a huge asshole." "Why?

Alex Flinn

#15. It's funny how the ugly duckling always has so many beautiful things to teach us.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

#16. Nobody really metamorphoses. Cinderella is always Cinderella, just in a nicer dress. The Ugly Duckling was always a swan, just a smaller version. And I bet the tadpole and the caterpillar still feel the same, even when they're jumping and flying, swimming and floating.
Just like I am now.

Holly Smale

#17. 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

#18. On the one hand, I always get the young ingenue, pretty parts. But I don't think of myself that way because I was an ugly duckling when I was growing up. I have to be reminded when I play a part sometimes that I'm playing the pretty girl.

Amy Carlson

#19. I have no idea! I have been writing for 35 years and from the beginning up to now the situation's almost the same. I'm kind of an ugly duckling. Always the duckling, never the swan.

Haruki Murakami

#20. Guurl. Tell me. Do you keep your hair this long for religious reasons? Like, will you lose your strength if you cut it?--Terry, a member of the glam squad, to Khloe Richardson

Naima Simone

#21. The world may see you as an ugly duckling, but God sees you as a magnificent swan.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#22. My duchess," James stated, his eyes sweeping the crowd with the air of a man who has ruled the waves. "She is not a swan, because that would imply she had once been an ugly duckling.

Eloisa James

#23. Ugly ducklings don't turn into swans and glide off down the lake. Whether your sunglasses are on or off, you only see the world you make.

Bonnie Raitt

#24. Elaine slowly transformed from the proverbial ugly duckling into a swan.

Mike Wells

#25. I always believed I was an ugly duckling in a family of swans, you know? I was such a black sheep, and it was the same way in high school ... I was just kind of that awkward theater kid with a bunch of athletes ... it was very 'Glee.'

Lindsay Pearce

#26. 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

#27. There's no need to curse God if you're an ugly duckling. He chooses those strong enough to endure it so that they can guide others who've felt the same.

Criss Jami

#28. It would just be like a movie makeover montage, pop music scoring the ugly girl's transformation from bespectacled duckling to cheerleader swan.

Leila Sales

#29. Fair warning, baby. I'm in the mood for a fight, and I wouldn't play fair or nice.--Niall Hunter to Khloe Richardson

Naima Simone

#30. The woman must look like the weathered side of a rotted fence post if she had to get a man this way.

Lindsey Brookes

#31. Santa Claus was white and everything bad was black. The little ugly duckling was the black duck, and the black cat was the bad luck. And if I threaten you, I'm going to blackmail you.I said, 'Momma, why don't they call it 'whitemail'? They lie too.'

Muhammad Ali