Nicolas Winding Refn Quotes

I think I can be beautiful with all the little stuff done, and I can be ugly. A lot of attractive actresses can't be ugly.

I was always reading those beauty magazines and wanting to become this unattainable thing.

What I find most upsetting about this new all-consuming beauty culture is that the obsession with good looks, and how you can supposedly attain them, is almost entirely female-driven.

I have a book out called 'The Beauty Equation' and it discusses how off track we have gone in considering beauty.

We live in a quick-fix society where we need instant gratification for everything. Too fat? Get lipo-sucked. Stringy hair? Glue on extensions. Wrinkles and lines? Head to the beauty shop for a pot of the latest miracle skin stuff. It's all a beautiful £1 billion con foisted upon insecure women by canny cosmetic conglomerates.

You can't have a beauty scene for beauty's sake.

I have endorsed every hair product in my career. Looks have been my bread, butter, jam. Looks are important in our society.

There are more beauty parlors than there are beauties.

The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.

Even if I weren't in Hollywood, I would feel pressure to look a certain way.

Women's currency is their looks. Like it or not, the most powerful woman is an 18-year-old woman.

We live in a beauty-obsessed age and success sometimes appears to hinge solely on the presentation of an image that is acceptable to the press.

Someone once referred to modeling as being like winning the lottery gene pool. It's such an odd way to put things, but what is different about modelling is that the industry often picks you.

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

I think the idea of the social construction of beauty - this idea that beauty is simply whatever culture or society says it is - is on the run. Of course, beauty does arise in a cultural context. No one ever denies that. But there's also a natural response people have to it.

Ours is decidedly not an age of Abrahams, Jacobs, or of youthful Elazars proud to be regarded as men of seventy. On the contrary, it is one in which the external signs of aging are avoided at all costs, youth is worshipped, and immortality is sought not in children but in Botox.

I think we have become obsessed with beauty and personally I'm really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that.

Appearance rules the world.

We know beauty when we see it, and our reactions are remarkably consistent. Beauty is not just a social construct, and not every girl is beautiful just the way she is.

External beauty is a bizarre thing to me.

You cannot say that one woman is 'more beautiful' than another, though people always do. It's so ridiculous to say that.

Beauty has been democratised. No longer the preserve of movie stars and models but available to all. But while the invitation to beauty is welcomed, it has become not so much an option as an imperative.

It is difficult to imagine any time in history when so many people claiming to be so free have lived in so much fear of being unattractive.

'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.

I would never want the responsibility of being the prettiest girl on screen; it's too much.