Pauley Perrette Quotes

I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali.

I've always been a strong believer that you were born with the hair you've got, but have the ability to get the hair you want.

I mean in the community that I grew up in, you know, a very, you know, mixed, almost entirely African Diaspora community, one of the things that we were not ever supposed to say was how much self-hatred and colorism determined and guided what we would call our desire. In other words, what we would consider beautiful.

I wanted to be like my friends. I hung out with girls who had blue eyes and blond hair and I thought, 'I want to look like them!'

I'm a handsome, caramel-colored Latino from the Bronx.

Let's face it I am not Joan Collins or Boy George.

I'm not that beautiful, and I don't want to be a pop star.

It didn't matter as much because I'm a singer, not an actress, but my face is more acceptable in a way now than when I first came on the scene, because I'm part black.

The girl next door isn't necessarily blonde and blue-eyed anymore. So I don't feel like I need to morph into that all-American thing.

I grew up in a predominantly Caucasian community, and most of my friends had blonde hair and blue eyes. So I was always straightening my hair, wearing colored contacts, and I never tanned, if I could help it.

It's fascinating how much of our sense of attractiveness and feminine identity is bound up in our hair.

That doll looks more like a black man than me.

I hate being a blonde.

There are times when I flick through magazines and think I'm in danger of becoming a prisoner of my own hair.

The only way my mother's beauty really affected me was that I always assumed that someday I would look like her. Then, late in my teens, I looked at a photo of her when she was younger than I was then, and I realised, no, it's never going to happen.

I remember, when I was ten, I wanted to look like Em. I had the bleached blonde hair.

The only thing that said 'Lando Calrissian' was ethnic was his looks.

When you are in America, at least for me, as an immigrant, I try to be as Americanized as I could. I just want to be an actor, I don't just want to be an Asian actor necessarily.

The only thing I know about being Asian is that my hair is black and my eyelashes are straight and I have strange eyebrows.

I definitely am not white.

I'm comfortable, culturally I'm American, my perspectives are American, but from an aesthetic perspective do other people look at me and think that I'm American?

People will take a picture of themselves and start looking at themselves and decide their neck looks weird. They see a celebrity selfie and wonder how she looks so good, and why her lips look so big.

I wasn't, like, pretty enough to be the ingenue; I wasn't 'character' enough to be the goofball sidekick. I'm kind of ethnically ambiguous.

I've got Indian looks, but there is nothing in my background.

I remember distinctly not seeing myself. I didn't see myself in black culture, white culture, mass culture.