Hugh Laurie Quotes

When people see me, I might come across as just eye candy.

It's not my plan or whatever in my life to be a sex symbol. It never is. You are who you are, but you can't help what you look like. And when you do a film, like for me, it's just not about that. I would prefer to downplay it. I prefer to downplay the sex appeal.

The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying.

If you were an alien who came to our bookstores - or browsed our teen magazines - you'd think that only Earth girls who look like Mila Kunis ever got any action.

I find beauty very frightening because it's such an all consuming subject in our society.

There's a lot more to being a woman than being 18 years old on the cover of Maxim magazine.

So I think it's fair to say it's even more of a challenge for some of these actors that are coming up, because there's such a pressure to look good, to be sexy and be palatable to people on whatever level.

It's sad that people listen to music and decide how the singer should look.

I don't know any women who don't think about what they look like, and I don't know any men who don't think about what women look like.

What's beautiful is all that counts, pal. That's all that counts.

It kind of cracks me up when people say I'm hot because I just think that that's a term that I don't have to deal with anymore.

If you look good, you can act in a Bollywood movie, you don't have to be able to act; and Aishwarya Rai is a great example of this. She is a beautiful woman... You look at her, I want to look at her. Damn, she is fine; but stop acting or stop trying to act.

I had to find a diet that would kick me back into dating shape, because I know that I can't date at size 8. I have to date at size 2. And it's just a fact of nature. Go get your injections and your chemical peels. You gotta look good to attract a man.

There just are not a lot of overweight people in Hollywood.

People make such a big deal about how people in bands look, especially if you're a girl.

People put too much emphasis on looks.

Is it just me, or is the world full of beautiful women?

I'd just much rather see an ugly person take the trash out than see somebody really pretty taking the trash out.

I don't consider myself a sex symbol.

For lack of a better term, they've labeled me a sex symbol. It's flattering and it should happen to every bald, overweight guy.

A lot of those good-looking girl parts aren't very fun.

I've always hated modeling. It's superficial and fake, and I hate to have to care about what I look like. I get a pimple and freak. The whole business is all about selling beautiful girls' faces and bodies, so how can there be anything intelligent or nice about that except for the girl who makes money?

There's a lot of amazing women out there. There's a lot of hot models. But models are the worst, because they're models, you have to always step up and always look good.

Makeup and clothing and all that should be a fun way to be creative and express yourself. Just like in nature, where birds have all the colors. But instead, it's all focused on the aesthetics of being attractive to men. Even if you really don't think it is that, that's what we're doing.

In South, the actresses are expected to be fuller, unlike Bollywood. The sensibilities are totally different.