LaTanya Richardson Quotes

I don't like to make a big splash anyway.

I have never been one for the over-the-top.

I don't think I want to win anything I think I want to die unadorned.

I've never been the kind of guy to hype myself up. It's just not my thing.

I am a simpleton at heart. In my personal life, I don't wear makeup.

I was the most subtle person in the world.

I'm a simple guy, you know? If I do something, it's not going to be, 'Look at this, look at that.' It just happens.

I'm very simple. I'm not for the flashes, I'm not for glitz and glamour, you know.

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

I'm not boisterous. I just let the work speak for itself.

I got simple tastes. Don't go in for all that flashy business.

I'm not a showy kind of player.

People say I'm deceptively unassuming, but that's the way I go through life. I'm not flash. You can make it sound calculated, but it's pretty much just me.

I'm never a flashy type of person.

I'm understated in my approach.

I don't believe in being loud. I find that stupid. Understated things work much better.

Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.

The beauty of modesty ... a virtue the world doesn't have much truck with: one ordinary flower in a vase, as opposed to a bouquet.

The Truth never flaunted a sign.

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

Inside, Penlee House is without pretension. It is a space that knows its limitations and its strengths - and makes the most of them.

I don't like things too overstated in the cut or too perfect.

I like to keep things classic, not lavish or blinged out. I don't even say that word. The last thing I want to be is over the top.

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

I'm not over the top; I'm not wacky. I'm fairly understated, and that reflects in the way I sing.