Lauren Bacall Quotes

Oh, I'm not beautiful. I can look beautiful; I can put beauty on. When I'm tired, I look bloody awful. I think I'm turning into the actress from 'Dynasty,' Linda Evans.

I'm not as beautiful as a model.

I really do believe that my style is informed by the fact that I had such issues with my appearance at various times of my life.

I am not perfect! When I was a little girl I thought I was ugly. My nose was too big for my face.

I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.

As a kid I had buck teeth and braces and acne. I hated what I saw. I'm still not comfortable, but that's why I change and adapt the way I look.

My eyes are too small, and they're too close together, and I have a pointy nose. But who cares? Who cares?!

Yet I've discovered that how I look is not a function of anything as ephemeral as my hair.

I was never an ambitious girl, or even a self-confident one. I never went in for beauty pageants or wore a stitch of make-up until I went to Los Angeles.

The thing is that I never felt beautiful. I really never did. I think I can change my looks and be different things, but I've never thought of myself as this face.

Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.

I hated seeing myself on screen. I was full of complexes. I hated my face for a very, very long time.

I wish I was better looking.

There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.

I've lived with myself for a very long time, so I'm aware of what I look like. I'm under no false pretense that I'm a stunner, so if somebody comes up and says something about my physical appearance, it's okay.

There are certainly a billion, ker-trillion girls out there more attractive than I am.

Do people really think that about my nose? I spent my whole life hating it, so it's amusing that people like it!

What I do for a living means that people look at me. As an actress, you are scrutinized. You are not just dealing with your looks privately, you are on display. I have never been 100 percent comfortable in my own skin. I go through different phases. But I don't feel beautiful all the time, no.

When my editor sent me the first two images of Joker's daughter, I was struck by how confident she looked despite her boney appearance and horribly scarred face. So I starting thinking, how did Duela gain such confidence in a world that prizes beauty?

Listen: I'm OK cute. I'm no stunner.

If I were old, fat and ugly, I don't know if anybody would be interested in me.

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.

But as a young model, I never felt as beautiful as I looked.

I'm no sexual siren. I see prettier girls than me in the grocery store every day.

I'm never happy with my face, my hair, I haven't really got any boobs and I'm not really that tall.