Marina Sirtis Quotes

I'm not good at being, like, a sexy girl.

I'm not homely enough to play the nerdy girl and not nearly pretty enough to play the pretty girl.

Maybe I'm too masculine. Casting directors cast in their own, or an idealized image. Maybe I don't look like anybody's ideal.

I'm pretty, but I'm not, like, a 'pretty girl.'

I say this in the spirit of feminist encouragement, but I think I'm pretty hot. I've got all the facial features, facing the right way, at the right end, and you can always paint over the bad bits with makeup.

I don't have a problem being labeled a sex symbol, though I personally don't feel very sexy about myself.

You watch yourself age and it's hard to feel like a sex symbol.

It's fun to be a girl, and get dressed up, but that's not how I really am.

My beauty icons are women whose images are self-created.

I think the Miss Universe title not only gives me the opportunity to become a role model for Latina girls around the world, but to show that beauty isn't just about the outside.

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

Women's behavior in handling beauty, even before feminism, was to deny they had any. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.

On the one hand, I always get the young ingenue, pretty parts. But I don't think of myself that way because I was an ugly duckling when I was growing up. I have to be reminded when I play a part sometimes that I'm playing the pretty girl.

On 'Being Mary Jane,' I learned to embrace sex symbol.

I am not chocolate and definitely not a boy. I am a man, and I have no clue how this image has stuck to me despite all these years. I think, maybe, in spite of trying to shell off my chocolate boy image, love stories excite me, and somehow I land up in such roles.

I really just want to change the way women think about themselves. A lot of young girls are quite lost.

I see it as someone who's been burned doesn't have to be put in this box where they can't be glamorous - I try and live that vision all the time and push those stereotypes away. That's all you can do.

As a female actress, I didn't feel the need to be sexy or beautiful.

I get mad at my girlfriends when they say things about their neck or something, "My neck is a disaster," and I'm like, "Come on, you don't even believe that." You're taking that from the outside world, you know? You look amazing, you're beautiful, you're 40, you're in the prime of your life. I'm not interested in fighting it at all. I don't think anyone else is wrong for trying to fight it, however.

The woman wins who calls herself beautiful, and challenges the world to change to fit her vision.

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

I'm more of a tomboy than anything and then you see your name on these Top 50 Most Beautiful People lists and you're like, 'What?'

Looking good has never been the most important thing to me. Maybe it's because I'm more conventionally, um, acceptable, so it's not an issue for me. I don't know.

I enjoy being a girl.

For my writing, and because I love talking to young women about life, I often asked them which would they rather have - a father in the house with them while growing up or a big butt? I tell you 86 percent of the time, girls say a big butt because it gets them further.