Louis Theroux Quotes

I didn't think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I'm not put together like the other chaps.

I'm very uncomfortable about the way I look but confident as a man.

I really don't want to be a hunk.

If you had known me in middle school, I was definitely not what someone would think of as Brad Pitt. That was not me. I was kind of a dork.

You know I'm weak on good looks.

I have no right to beauty. I had been condemned to masculine ugliness.

I was pretty as a child and I felt that I wasn't very manly and that plagued me for years.

Women don't like men who know they're good looking. They'd much prefer a man who doesn't know he's good looking.

[Referring to George W. Bush] Anybody who has to spend all his time demonstrating his manhood has somehow got to know he ain't got it.

I don't look like Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise. When you put me on the screen, the women don't want to make love to me, and the men don't want to be me.

We're raised to believe that asking for help - that not having all the answers - is a sign of weakness, somehow challenging our manhood.

In truth, a mature man who uses hair oil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere.

I started to take care of my body after I turned 50. I never liked how I looked physically because I was too cute, short, with coloring only on my cheeks, the perfect little nose, and then the blue eyes. But I would have preferred to have the look of a tough guy from the wrong side of town - one of those fascinatingly ugly looks.

Thank God I am 20 feet tall, so my crying is never mistaken as weak. It can be mistaken as weird, but not weak.

On the contrary, there is something pleasing about his mouth when he speaks. And there is something of dignity in the way his trousers cling to those most English parts of him.

People talk about me as masculine. Because of the way I walk and talk and crank out pull-ups and smell like bacon.

I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.

Uriah looked better than he did an hour ago--he washed the blood from his mouth, and some of the color returned to his face. I'm struck, suddenly, by how handsome he is-- all his features are proportionate, his eyes dark and lively, his skin bronze-brown. And he has probably always been handsome. Only boys who have been handsome from a young age have that arrogance in their smile. Not like Tobias, who is almost shy when he smiles like he is surprised you bothered to look at him from the first place.

They say that at the mountain pass he looked back at his kingdom, his beautiful kingdom, and wept, and his mother told him to weep like a woman for what he could not hold as a man.

The ladies kept telling me I wasn't good in bed, so I figured if I wasn't a lover then I must be a fighter

Sometimes a man has to cry. Even if he is a man.

In case you didn't notice me, I'm the less attractive friend to the right.

If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.

The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.

Young men just don't know what it means to be a man. There are so many lies about what it means to be a man whether that be get a bunch of girls or get a bunch of money or don't cry and don't have emotions. Nobody is teaching them how to be men.