Body Obsession
Actors' quotes about body obsession
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This section presents quotes about superficial beauty. The actors and directors' quotes collected in this section are about wrinkles, physical decline and plastic surgery. Appearance and maniacal care of the body are essential parts of a celebrity's life, who is always trying to make beauty and success last as long as possible. Some movie stars, though, are not afraid of getting old and willingly accept that their beauty is not given by muscular bodies or generous breasts.
“The hell with the hair on your head. It's the hair on your chest that counts.”
“Everyone imitated my fuller mouth, darker eyebrows. But I wouldn't copy anybody. If I can't be me, I don't want to be anybody. I was born that way.”
“I have a face that is a cross between two pounds of halibut and an explosion in an old clothes closet.”
“Thin people are beautiful, but fat people are adorable.”
“To be an actor it is essential to be an egomaniac; otherwise it just doens't work.”
Just recently I got asked to do a film where the guy was exactly the same age as me and they go, "No, she's too old."
“I've had some plastic surgery. Anybody can look at me and tell. But people can have too much. The trouble is, you don't look better. So you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. That's the bottom line.”
“Sexpots age fast in Hollywood.”
“I have a face like the behind of an elephant.”
“In Hollywood, a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo.”
“Lipstick is the red badge of courage.”
“It always impresses me when a person of small stature has command.”
“I don't know what I'd do if I had to look pretty all the time.”
“No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily.”
“It's kind of fun to be sexy.”
“Men are allowed to age. Men are allowed to gain weight. Men are allowed to be quirky looking.”
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