Stephanie Zimbalist Quotes

It's fun to be blond, and it's almost difficult to remember how I used to look with my proper hair color.

Extreme Makeover... they help people that are uncomfortable in their own skin. They really change lives.

But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.

I've become someone else, really, like a role model.

One time, many, many years ago, I had the opportunity to dye my hair brunette for a film. And the day I walked out of the hotel where I had it done, I walked out onto the street and realized people looked me in the eye and greeted me good morning. I'd never had that experience before! And I began to notice that a brunette is treated as an affable human being. Later, when I dyed my hair for Lois Riley blonde, and then Alice Ward blonde, people come right up to you, they touch you on the arm, they ask you how you're doing. Men and women both! Blondes have more fun.

It'd be really nice to wake up looking like, I don't know, Jake Gyllenhaal and think, 'Let's try this on for a day and see how it feels.'

What we do to ourselves to look a certain way is crazy.

I just think that people take me a little more seriously as a brunette. I don't know if that's just because of a societal preconceived notion that all blondes are stupid, but it's a different kind of attitude.

I feel that a lot of sexy people never say that they are sexy.

Girls know when they're attractive.

You have to know me first to think I'm pretty.

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

Some people can get away with being very sexy to men and not looking like a complete cow, but I didn't think I was in a position where people knew me well enough.

When you're not blond and thin, you come up with a personality real quick.

As soon as you 'Botox' your smile lines away, you lose part of your identity.

I don't consider myself a sex symbol.

When I left for college, I told myself that this was a chance for reinvention. No one on the other side of the country knew that I was an introvert, so maybe if I tried not acting like an introvert, I wouldn't be one.

It's no one's fault to be born ugly, but, honestly, must it be worn as a symbol of pride?

When I had dark hair I definitely felt that I was more anonymous.

I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should be treated. People used to be shocked, when I was blond, that I wasn't stupid.

I think hair is just, like, the most important thing about you.

Cosmetic surgery - it's boring and expensive, and the only thing it could do is give me another face.

I've seen other actresses refuse to be ugly. Even if the story line calls for it or the character calls for it, they just can't go there for vanity's sake, and they don't want to be perceived in an ugly way. I was like, 'Nah, I wanna go for this.'

In terms of aesthetics, I probably look better than I did when I played.

I am so used to seeing a blond in the mirror that I forget that for most of my life I was very dark. Old photos are still a bit of a shock.