Laetitia Casta Quotes

There's not one person that I say I want to look like.

I've spent my whole life being told I have a face like a horse. You are just what you are, aren't you?

I'm not as beautiful as a model.

There are certainly a billion, ker-trillion girls out there more attractive than I am.

I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here.

I find the whole concept of being 'sexy' embarrassing and confusing. If I do a photo-shoot, people desperately want to change me - dye my hair blonder, pluck my eyebrows, give me a fringe. Then there's the choice of clothes. I know everyone wants a picture of me in a mini-skirt. But that's not me.

When I was 15, I didn't think I was the prettiest at all. But then something happened when I was 20-something - I thought, actually, I really like what I look like. Just because I don't look like everybody else doesn't mean that I can't be just as beautiful.

I enjoy being a girl.

Not everybody is Cindy Crawford.

I'm not a great beauty. That's not me.

Yet I've discovered that how I look is not a function of anything as ephemeral as my hair.

It used to bother me - having bigger, fuller brows. I even plucked them once so I'd fit in, but I hated them and couldn't wait for them to grow back. Now I embrace them. I realized the quirky things that make you different are what make you beautiful.

I'm not that beautiful, and I don't want to be a pop star.

Being proud of who we are as people is more important than cutting into ourselves to create this false idea of beauty.

I certainly used to wish that I was skinny, lighter-skinned, with long, pretty hair. But only because I used to get made fun of for being the absolute opposite. I didn't see all of that stuff as the American Dream. I just wanted to look normal. Now that I'm older, I really do feel like I am a beautiful girl.

I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self.

I can only speak for myself - I don't care how I look.

I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.

My beauty icons are women whose images are self-created.

I really do believe that my style is informed by the fact that I had such issues with my appearance at various times of my life.

There isn't anybody that looks like me without clothes on.

In my big group of girlfriends at home, I am definitely not the best looking. I did not grow up feeling like I was particularly attractive.

My face has always been my fortune anyway, not my body.

My appearance has changed a lot over the years, but it has far more to do with how I feel about being a woman.

I'm no natural beauty. If I'm gonna have any looks at all, I'm gonna have to create them.