Felicity Jones Quotes

We're all used to seeing pretty people. I want to see real people.

I don't love Photoshop; I like imperfection. It doesn't mean ugly. I love a girl with a gap between her teeth, versus perfect white veneers. Perfection is just... boring. Perfect is what's natural or real; that is beauty.

We're all flawed, and we all make mistakes, and we all have weaknesses. And those are the kind of people I want to see onscreen, the ones that feel like real flesh-and-blood human beings and not the weird, whitewashed, Hollywood stand-ins for people with the rough edges sanded off that I can't connect to because they just don't resonate with me.

I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters.

I really don't have a problem showing the ugly side of people. If that means my wearing no makeup, that's fine. To me, that's beautiful.

You don't want to play a perfect person; no one cares about that.

The characters I've always been drawn to are real and flawed. That's not how women have always been portrayed.

It's important sometimes to have pictures that are not as retouched and show more of the real skin.

Life isn't always really glamorous and fabulous. It's about encouraging people to go back to natural beauty.

I rarely got retouched when I started modeling, and it was crucial to me to show an accurate, realistic picture of me because that's beautiful, too.

I don't think being flawed is a bad thing for a character... nor do I think it's a bad thing for a person in life, because that's how we all are.

They say real girls aint never perfect, perfect girls aint real.

My job is to look out on that world that I write about and be as honest as I possibly can about that world. If that's optimistic and uplifting, OK. If it's not, OK.

If you're going to play human beings, and you're going to play them three-dimensionally, you have to show every side of them.

I don't like anything too perfect, or anyone who looks like they have just stepped out of a salon; that's not for me.

You're not always going to look super glamorous in the morning when you wake up. Everything's not perfect.

I'm interested in the person I photograph. The world is so beautiful as it is; there's so much going on, which is sort of interesting. It's just so crazy, so why do I have to put some retouching on it? It's just pointless to me.

There's this thing in Hollywood about the sympathetic character and likability. I've never understood that because the people I love most in my life are not likable all the time. My wife is not always likable. I'm certainly not always likable. My dad is not always likable. We're human beings.

I think unretouched images are even more beautiful.

I think flawed characters are important, because no one is perfect.

I love faces that have freckles. I love faces that have wrinkles. For me, beauty is naturalism, I guess.

When we show our flaws, we show the world that we don't look pretty all the time.

When you see me on TV against one of the other girls, they look 10 times better than me, and I'm OK with that. I make a conscious effort not to wear that much makeup and not have my hair so perfectly groomed. That's just not me. I'm not going to be perfect.

All my characters are quite relatable, as they are flawed, true, and honest. All of us are flawed; nobody is pure and pious.

I don't want to watch a show or a movie about the guy who doesn't have any problems, who is sort of a goodie two shoes and just does everything morally right, because that's not the person I relate to. That's not who I am. That's not what anyone is.