Deborah Kerr Quotes

The first thing I have to do to erase my French accent is think that it is actually possible, whereas for the moment, I think it's not. I have a lot of work.

I consciously took this decision of changing my image from a bahu. I just wanted to look different and good.

I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the U.S. It took three years to get the accent right.

My mama told me in college, 'I love you, and you're God's child, but natural beauty will only take you so far.'

I remember early on, in my very, very early days, I had a makeup artist tell me that I needed to get an attitude. I had no idea what he was talking about.

I started to look like a cartoon character with the fringe and the catsuits. Yes, I want to change and mix it up. I want to change my hair, change my style. I want to be allowed to grow.

I will continue to be intelligent, I vowed, no matter how beautiful I become.

When you become an American, they give you an injection so your accent changes.

Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But we are who we are.

I didn't really like my Sydney accent - nobody likes the sound of their own voice - and when I was a little younger tried to change my accent gradually. But I've only ever really lived in Sydney and Los Angeles, so I haven't been influenced by the accents of some far-off land.

I don't know if I was a desirable person, not just physically but emotionally and mentally and intellectually. I still have a long way go and a lot to learn, but I'm on my way, I don't think I'm terribly attractive, but I'm comfortable with my looks.

My centre of who I thought I was was never very consciously about being beautiful or attractive - I think I'm one of those people who's actually grown into their looks.

I've met people whose accents have nothing to do with where they were born or raised - they want to reinvent themselves.

I didn't think of myself as beautiful, but, in retrospect, I guess I was.

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

Really, at the end of the day, the only thing you can control is yourself; the only person you can truly educate is yourself. You have to redefine what beauty is to you so you can't be affected by what people are saying.

Most people ask me were you always sexy and if I said I was born this way I'd be lying.

Before any girl was making me her Man Crush Monday, I was a singer. Back before I had muscles, when I had a bird chest, I was a singer. I've always been like this, and I've gotten better because I've progressed.

If I were somebody else looking at my character, I'd be like, "She's beautiful." I'm practicing. I'm not succeeding.

The girls who were unanimously considered beautiful often rested on their beauty alone. I felt I had to do things, to be intelligent and develop a personality in order to be seen as attractive. By the time I realized maybe I wasn't plain and might even possibly be pretty, I had already trained myself to be a little more interesting and informed.

Take a look at yourself, the mirror's revealing. If yeen got it, yeen got it the theory is brilliant.

Each woman needs to know herself and think that the clothes are here to make her more beautiful, because the person is more important than the clothes.

Fake it until you make it. Pretend to be somebody until that somebody turns into you.

I'm curious about everything, except what people have to say about me.

Much that is beautiful must be discarded So that we may resemble a taller Impression of ourselves.