Russell Peters Quotes

I look at Jessica Alba and think she's got a great body. I think that's what women are supposed to look like.

I think good-looking people seldom make good television. And American television studios almost concede before they start: 'Well, it won't be good, but at least it'll be good-looking. We'll have nice-looking girls in tight shirts with F.B.I. badges and fit-looking guys with lots of hair gel vaulting over things.'

Women's currency is their looks. Like it or not, the most powerful woman is an 18-year-old woman.

I just cash in on the fact that I'm good looking, and I've got a nice figure and girls like me.

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

In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo.

My goal was always to be recognized as a good actor but no one was interested in that, simply because society just wants to warm towards your appearance. This is the great blemish of society.

Americans like fat books and thin women.

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.

I kind of resent this attitude of men that we somehow must always look good.

Anyone who says there isn't pressure to look good as an actor in L.A. is lying.

'Handsome' means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattered - and have my parents to thank for it. Realistically, it doesn't hurt to be good-looking, especially in this business.

The body of a beautiful woman is not made for love; it is too exquisite.

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.

Why is it that the hot chicks never can sing?

People have always had these weird things about how you have to be really good looking to be a singer.

I'll look through 'Us Weekly' and I'll see a picture of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Anniston. And I'm like, 'Wow, they just... they look so good. Even if they're like just wearing jeans and a t-shirt, they still look great.'

I'm not that good looking... nobody is that good looking. I have seen a lot of movie stars, and maybe four are amazing looking. The rest have a team of gay guys who make it happen.

In Hollywood if you're good looking, tall, have okay teeth and nice skin, the odds of being successful are great. If you're short and fat, it's a different story. But as long as you look like a leading man type, half your job is done already.

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.

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

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

A girl has to be super-hot now for me to be even semi-interested.

Beauty contests are only a mirage where all you have to do is look pretty all the time.