"I'm odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet"
About this Quote
The muppet comparison does two things at once. It’s comic (disarming the interviewer, lowering the stakes), but it’s also slyly aggressive: it challenges the audience’s entitlement to assess her body as a product. By choosing a reference that’s intentionally ridiculous, she undercuts the voyeuristic seriousness with which celebrity looks are usually discussed. If you’re laughing, you’re not scrutinizing.
Context matters because Jolie’s fame has always been a tug-of-war between control and projection: the industry sells her as a visual icon while tabloids and fans build their own narratives on top. This quote reads like a small act of agency inside that machine. She’s not “humblebragging” so much as rehearsing a psychological escape hatch: if she can see herself as strange, elastic, even puppet-like, she’s less trapped by the demand to be perfect, legible, and endlessly consumable.
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| Topic | Funny |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Jolie, Angelina. (2026, January 17). I'm odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-odd-looking-sometimes-i-think-i-look-like-a-28643/
Chicago Style
Jolie, Angelina. "I'm odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-odd-looking-sometimes-i-think-i-look-like-a-28643/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I'm odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-odd-looking-sometimes-i-think-i-look-like-a-28643/. Accessed 18 Feb. 2026.





