Steve Carell Quotes

I have no right to beauty. I had been condemned to masculine ugliness.

For girls growing up, sometimes I think they get the wrong idea for what women should look like.

I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.

Just like any other girl, I felt pressure to look a certain way. Act a certain way.

It’s always surprising to me how many young women think they have to be perfect. I rarely meet a young man who doesn’t think he already is.

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.

I'm not sure if guys are supposed to read Vanity Fair. I feel very metrosexual with it but am not sure it's in my comfort zone.

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.

If you're a man, you don't have to worry about your manliness.

I hate being too pretty.

A lot of girls think they have to choose between being the smart geeky type or the beautiful bimbo.

I was lucky not to have been born pretty.

With women, the way they look... it's the core of their self-esteem.

I have a friend who, if she has a bad hair day, it affects her whole mood because it is part of her sexuality, her confidence. I don't have that problem any more.

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

Do we have to be rail thin to possess 'outer beauty' and sex appeal and to be capable of attracting lovers?

I wanted people not to look at me as a little girl, but I was a little girl so how could I ask the world not to?

So many girls only care about guys and looking good all the time.

I've always been given respect because I'm kind of mannish, and I'm not a great beauty. I've never played the coquette card because I'm no good at it.

I'm not a 'sexy' 'beautiful' woman. It takes a lot of work to make me look like a girl.

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

Beauty is what attracts men naturally, but really I think we dress for other women, not necessarily for men. We torture ourselves every single day, and I wish that we wouldn't because we should all just get along, really.

I feel like girls in general will always worry about the same things, and it's all appearance related. That will always be there. When you grow older, you grow more confident with who you are.

What I do know is that traditional gender roles are very real and flipping the norm is difficult for even the strongest, funniest, smartest men.

I don't want to have to be pretty. I don't want to have to be adorable.