Domhnall Gleeson Quotes

I'm flatchested, I'm short, I'm brunette, I have droopy eyes, and so people have a hard time casting me as a 'beauty.'

The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.

I don't mind not looking conventionally - you know, attractive if that's what the part requires.

I don't even think of myself as particularly good looking, and not at all a typical kind of Hollywood leading man sort of actor.

I knew I would never be cast as the pretty girl.

I like to play unattractive people who think they're pretty. You can do what you want, but I prefer to look interesting.

I would rather be nuts than unattractive.

I'm not the classic type - fair skin, very beautiful women of a classic type, I'm talking about now.

When you appear on the screen, often enough you become sexy, even if you look like an elephant.

I'm not a pretty-boy kind of a girl; the Brad Pitts don't do anything for me.

Nothing. It just finds you a lot more attractive than it does most Humans. What can you do with a beautiful woman that you can’t do with an ugly one? Nothing. It’s just a matter of preference.

I think sex is overrated. I don't have sex appeal and I know it. As a matter of fact, I think I'm rather funny looking. My teeth are funny, for one thing, and I have none of the attributes usually required for a movie queen, including the shapeliness.

The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.

I don't happen to like pretty things. I don't like pretty dresses. I like more attractive. I like people that look a little bit more offbeat. I don't like the classic pretty face. That doesn't mean it's not pretty or it's not wonderful, and most people don't agree with me, but that's the way I think.

I have never been beautiful in cliche terms.

I'm not a romantic lead. I have sticking-out ears and a little troll nose.

Beautiful people are always with us, as evolutionary psychologists and a trip to the news-stand confirm.

Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.

It's not my plan or whatever in my life to be a sex symbol. It never is. You are who you are, but you can't help what you look like. And when you do a film, like for me, it's just not about that. I would prefer to downplay it. I prefer to downplay the sex appeal.

I was lucky not to have been born pretty.

I wonder if it is harder for a woman who was beautiful to get older or a woman who was never looked at.

People do think you're more intelligent if you have dark hair. But my husband definitely prefers me as a blonde.

I don't think my eyes are stunning as some people's are.

I'm not a sexy person. I'm OK with it. I've never been the sexy girl. Whenever I've had a boyfriend, he's always been like, 'Oh, you're cute.'

It was God who made me so beautiful. If I weren't, then I'd be a teacher.