Michele Bachmann Quotes

The standards by which a woman's appearance is judged on the news are different to men, there's no question about that. Our clothes are different, for starters, they're much more varied, they're commented upon, there's no question about that. But do you have to be really good-looking? I don't think that's true.

Most female actresses will have a very difficult time being made unattractive.

The first duty of a woman is to be pretty, the second is to be well-groomed, and the third is never to contradict.

As an actress - and as an actor, too, but it's worse for actresses - you constantly get picked apart for how you look.

Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort.

To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.

If you look at tennis, the girls have become much more attractive; they wear makeup. In my generation, you were a tennis player. It wasn't like you had to look a certain way.

Men are able to sustain a career into their 50s and 60s and still present themselves as sex symbols. With women, on the other hand, people say, 'Why doesn't she retire?'

I think that an actor is more likely to be forgiven in the public's eye than an actress.

I've been told to wear different things, to look different, to lose weight, to look sexier, to wear more hair, to wear more makeup.

I didn't understand why people cared about my hair or my makeup or my clothing. It was like, 'I'm a prosecutor. I'm not a model. I'm not an actress.'

Drag can be considered so many dangerous things, which it isn't. But the one thing we're never called is misogynist, which might be the only thing that we truly are. Because no woman looks like this. You have so many real biological everyday women say: 'Oh I wish I would look like you.' They would look ridiculous if they looked like us.

There's so much judgment geared toward young girls. People just expect so much from girls. Even physically and aesthetically, people expect us to always look right, to have a certain etiquette - to talk a certain way and act a certain way - and to know certain things. It's all different expectations, but there are always expectations.

Women are blessed with lots and lots of extra ways to win or lose validation. If you're a woman, you'll be judged on your beauty and your wit and how often you smile. You'll be judged on how much hair you have in some places and not in others.

It is very important to look good in the entertainment industry.

All this is expected from girls only - wear makeup and look beautiful. My guy friends don't always have to do their hair and makeup.

Women have always wanted to look attractive.

There's a lot of stupid men out there who feel like makeup is a betrayal of the truth, and that is so funny to me.

Like the Bond girl, there's a stigma attached to being a 'Dhoom' girl. You have to look pretty good, and people are going to judge you.

Men are not supposed to be mysterious. That's what you say about women. But I think men can have a little of it, too.

Beautiful actors are learning what beautiful actresses like Charlize Theron discovered a while ago - that they get taken more seriously when they trash the same beauty that got them taken seriously to begin with.

And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.

When I was younger, I felt very much like, 'Oh, I have to be a certain way, I have to look a certain way.' You really, really don't. That's the way women are treated differently than men. I mean, I've had actors argue with me about this.

From a male perspective, you don't think about how much outward pressure and importance you put on how women look.

Obviously, I'm in a visual business, and people will talk to me about my appearance.