Christy Turlington Quotes

I'm proud that today, at 43 years old, I've come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty.

Aging in Hollywood sucks. There's always so much pressure to look way younger than you are, and everyone's watching! I'd like to embrace getting older, because it's kind of inevitable. The different, wiser me, to be at peace with how I look and I'm supposed to look - it's a work in progress.

I take life for what it has to offer me. I don't get aggravated about [getting older]. The wrinkles on my face are a natural process, so why should I get angry?

As I age, I become more and more happy with what I see in the mirror. At some point, that's going to stop.

Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.

I'm finally looking older and inviting my wrinkles.

Whenever I go to New York or any European country, they say: 'Nawal, why don't you get a facelift?' I tell them, 'I am proud of my wrinkles. Every wrinkle on my face tells the story of my life. Why should I hide my age?'

I'm enjoying the aging process and the gray hair and the wrinkles.

People say, 'I love my wrinkles.' I don't love my wrinkles - come on!

I see wrinkles and lines, and wear glasses to read, which I hate. But I am in a better place in my body than I used to be.

This idea that being youthful is the only thing that's beautiful or attractive simply isn't true. I don't want to be an 'ageless beauty.' I want to be a woman who is the best I can be at my age.

For guys, growing older is fine. Gray hair and wrinkles aren't considered a bad thing.

I don't know why everyone feels the pressure to look young. Personally, I hate it. I don't want to inject Botox and look young forever. It's living in denial and anything that has an undercurrent of this philosophy is bad for your growth.

Older women know who they are, and that makes them more beautiful than younger ones. I like to see a face with some character. I want to see lines. I want to see wrinkles.

If you get a wrinkle, I don't feel that's indicative of your losing ground. That's ridiculous.

My skin may have wrinkles but it's because I'm smiling so much. That might sound like some terrible American greetings card, but I feel it's immoral for me to castigate my body for getting older, when it does everything I ask of it.

It's sad that so many people feel they need to alter their image. I think there is something really beautiful about ageing naturally.

I think that cosmetic enhancements in my profession are just an occupational hazard. But I think, more culturally, I'm interested in starting the conversation about aging gracefully and how, instead of making it a cultural problem, we make it individuals' problems.

At 52 and unaltered, people tell me I look good for my age. This is not the same as being told you're beautiful.

Everyone has different issues, and I think for a great deal of women, those issues are self-esteem. And for me, I really wanted to understand it and get through it because I didn't want to be an actress afraid of getting older. I refuse to live that way.

I'm not worried about wrinkles on my cheeks, or going grey. I'm not trying to be 20.

In my 40s, I expect to finally reap the average-looking girl's revenge. I've entered the stage of life where you don't need to be beautiful; simply by being well-preserved and not obese, I would now pass for pretty.

Everyone wants to be young and skinny. This is awful. Curves are marvelous. Wrinkles are hypnotizing. Why not just be happy with who you are?

Beauty, to me is about being comfortable in your own skin.

I think Julianne Moore is the most radiantly beautiful human being and isn't messing with nature too much. She seems like a woman who treats her body like a temple. I cannot relate to that!