Nigel Barker Quotes

I'm not a public figure; I shouldn't have to be held to a certain standard of beauty.

I was not considered beautiful at all. Really. And this is what all models say. But I'm still not considered that beautiful in my country. I don't know the beauty ideal where I come from - but it's not me.

Even if I weren't in Hollywood, I would feel pressure to look a certain way.

I think I can be beautiful with all the little stuff done, and I can be ugly. A lot of attractive actresses can't be ugly.

Honestly, Korean beauty standards are harsh. People are even putting pressure on non-celebrities to be super skinny, and the standards of thinness are just getting worse.

Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.

It's not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality.

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'

When I was growing up, one or two girls were beautiful, but it was not an aspiration, right?

I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.

I was always reading those beauty magazines and wanting to become this unattainable thing.

I've been told to wear different things, to look different, to lose weight, to look sexier, to wear more hair, to wear more makeup.

In the future there are going to be no pretty girls, for the simple reason there will be no plain girls against which to contrast them. Of late I have done some systematic reading of ladies papers. The plain girl submits to a course of "treatment." In eighteen months she bursts upon Society an acknowledged beauty.

I don't believe in one ideal beauty.

I can't get into all that physical stuff of having to have flawless skin... Sometimes you see people and it looks like someone's got an eraser and made their face a little blurry - their traits seem to go out of focus.

Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance - it's the stuff that fuels the beauty and fashion industries.

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

I have never met an ugly woman.

Beauty lasts five minutes. Maybe longer if you have a good plastic surgeon.

'America's Next Top Model' is not a bunch of Barbies - it's a lot of girls that are atypically beautiful.

This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.

We make such terrible mistakes with visual choices about beauty.

This idea that being youthful is the only thing that's beautiful or attractive simply isn't true.

I think we have become obsessed with beauty and personally I'm really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that.