Robert Carlyle Quotes

I was blessed with good looks and I have good genes.

However, I hope I am also judged on my accomplishments as an actor and not just on my pretty face!

My type, which I didn't realize until somebody pointed out to me, apparently is brunettes with darker skin tones, but that is about it as far as aesthetically.

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.

I am fortunate in having this bone structure because I have a tremendously prominent temple. I like to think that's it's because I'm so intelligent. People say: 'You haven't got a line on your forehead.' I do. It's just the bones are holding them all out, and the cheekbones are holding my face up.

As a people, Serbians are very tall, and we have olive skin and dark hair, which can look very nice. You have to be very beautiful to stand out.

From as far back as I can remember, I was always insecure about my looks, whether it was my flat chest, my skinny legs, or how to cope with my body as it changed. With hindsight, I can see I was different. I was given a body that worked for photographic modelling and a photogenic face.

Sure, being good at your job is really important, but in acting, so much of the decision's already made the minute you walk in the room because they're like, 'His hair's good or she's got the right skin color' or whatever. It's so random, but it's so physically oriented.

I have certain physical features that I favor over others. We all have our areas.

My greatest vanity is my skin. It is the colour of gingerbread and, thanks to my mother's genes, smooth and mostly blemish-free.

I look better with a tan, but I've never gone the fake route. I don't need to - I have good foreign genes: half Spanish, half Hungarian.

The real way I became a model is I won a genetic lottery, and I became the recipient of a legacy.

People don't associate red hair, pale skin, and freckles with beauty.

People on the street comment on how handsome I am. You know, people stop and say how angular my face is.

Bones don't make for success on the runway, but a proportioned, balanced body does.

She's only pretty in that she has two small black eyes and a good figure.

'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.

Her form, though not so correct as her sister's, in having the advantage of height, was more striking; and her face was so lovely, that when in the common cant of praise she was called a beautiful girl, truth was less violently outraged than usually happens.

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

I would be extremely stupid if I said that my looks had absolutely nothing to do with what I do, it [moviemaking] is a visual medium. I'm perfectly aware of that, the face and the body help. Of course they do.

Anyone that says looks don't count is lying.

A pretty woman's worth some pains to see.

The thing about legs is you're born with them. Anybody can go out and buy boobs. But you're either blessed with attractive legs or you're not. That's what makes them so sexy.

I watch women continuously. I want them to look beautiful, I am not interested in making them funny, but just beautiful. They have got to look marvelous to please their own men.

My friends think I'm ugly, I gotta masculine face.