Michael Bolton Quotes

Some actors don't mind it. Those who are pretty. They think it's nice to be looked at because they are nice to look at. I appreciate that. I'm very happy to salute that aspiration. But I don't like the way I look so I don't like being photographed. I become defensive.

I think television does tease out a certain vanity in everybody when you look at yourself and you go, 'Oh Christ.' Maybe that's why my intros get shorter and shorter.

I used to be very vain about my thumbs. I have fat thumbs. If there's a movie where you see me on the phone, it's not my hands.

As far as TV goes, of course there's pressure to look good. It's not something I've ever cared about too much.

I find if my character is more glamorous, I become more conscious of what I look like.

A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't.

I am used to looking good. In a way, if I thought I looked like the back end of a bus, I probably wouldn't have done 'Strictly Come Dancing' and gone out there in public.

When you're a regular gal, you look in the rearview mirror, and in the bright daylight you see that line around your mouth, but when you're an actress and you see that line up on the big screen, it's, like, seven feet long.

It's not a prerequisite for an actor to be obsessed about his looks. I know there are people who don't look in the mirror at all, and I'm getting there.

I just think that I'll never have plastic surgery if I'm not in front of the camera. If you make your living selling this thing, which is the way you look, then maybe you do it. But trust me, the minute I'm directing or producing and not starring, I would never even think of it.

I choose to do unattractive people, because then I can pretend they think they're attractive.

I think I can be relatively attractive when I dress up, but I'm not Julia Roberts or Catherine Zeta Jones.

You know, let's put it this way, if all the people in Hollywood who have had plastic surgery, if they went on vacation, there wouldn't be a person left in town.

Unattractive people are more obsessed with looks.

I'm not obsessed by looks. I think you can become a prisoner of your own image.

People think I'm goofy. I don't have that Angelina Jolie air to me. I wish that I did, and that's an insecurity of mine.

A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?

I think when you're in the public eye, you feel a pressure to stay younger looking.

I spend so much time in front of mirrors as part of my job that I try to avoid them outside work.

I never look at any pictures of myself on the red carpet. I can't do that.

You see those magazines, 'Oh, look at so-and-so without makeup, Halle Berry without makeup.' It's so crazy to wake up in the morning and have that thought - 'Do I need to put makeup on? Do I need to do something because I know people are going to know who I am?'

My face and body have been a tool for my career, and I'm very conscious of that aspect and try and keep it the best I can.

It actually makes perfect sense why women in Hollywood get so skinny: because it's a way of controlling how people see you.

I've worked with some people that just spent hours and hours and hours in the mirror, and just so much importance is based on that. And I do find that sad.

I don't think I look great. I only see flaws in myself on the small screen. I make an extra effort to look good.