Noel Coward Quotes

I know I'm not a woman's fantasy man; I don't have to uphold this image of male beauty, so that's kind of a relief in a way.

I've always been given respect because I'm kind of mannish, and I'm not a great beauty. I've never played the coquette card because I'm no good at it.

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

Asian men are the sexiest. They got no body hair from the neck down.

The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.

Beauty, like male ballet dancers, makes some men afraid.

Gentlemen prefer blondes.

Beautiful actors are learning what beautiful actresses like Charlize Theron discovered a while ago - that they get taken more seriously when they trash the same beauty that got them taken seriously to begin with.

Italian men do appreciate beautiful women. They're not afraid of the beauty, which is nice.

I hate being too pretty.

While I was boxing professionally, I never thought about my looks. The furthest thing from my mind was 'messing up my pretty face' when I was on my way to the ring to meet my opponent. Yet, people I'd meet along the way would always ask me if I was worried about my looks. Then they would go on to say that I was 'too pretty to box.'

And there is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean.

I've been playing old parts forever. I play 93 quite often. When you've done it more than once, you take the hint. I think it's a great burden if you're one of those fantastic stars who've always been beautiful; then I think it's hard.

I don't think, as an actress, you want to be beautiful. It's actually a disadvantage because that's not where all the interesting parts lie.

What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same.

Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all.

These women whose antics we smirk at good-naturedly in the pap-traps put themselves out there at least partly on their beauty; they are in showbiz, and showing what they've got is part of their business as much as it is for male show-ponies from the Chippendales to George Clooney.

Girls know when they're attractive.

I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there's just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.

It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.

I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'

I was kind of a jock in school. Beauty wasn't something I spent a lot of time on.

I've been told I'm too good looking for certain roles, but that's okay, it just motivates me to go deeper.

I was pretty as a child and I felt that I wasn't very manly and that plagued me for years.

I got called 'pretty boy' my whole life.