Penelope Lively Quotes

Beautiful people are forgiven more often than the rest.

It's always nice to have people say you're good-looking. But I do get told I'm not right for parts because I'm too good-looking.

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

It kind of irritates me that I'm seen as this pretty face. People also say I'm too thin. The truth is pretty people aren't as accepted as other people. It comes with all these stigmas.

A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.

For some reason, people imagine that dramatic things happen to people who don't look beautiful.

I have never been called too pretty for anything. That would be a problem I could get used to.

Being eye candy always was a short-term career, and here's the reason. The world finds young women more attractive than old women because youthfulness signals fertility.

Even when I see a beautiful woman, I think, 'Aw, her life must be amazing.' Everyone does it. That's human nature to believe that beauty is everything.

I must say also that it's never worked to my disadvantage that I have long, blond hair.

Beautiful people are always with us, as evolutionary psychologists and a trip to the news-stand confirm.

If you're an attractive guy, everyone thinks you're successful just because of the way you look. I hate that.

We all know that looks matter. What most of us don't understand is just how much looks matter and how difficult it is for us to ignore a person's appearance when making a social judgment.

Even the handsomest men do not have the same momentary effect on the world as a truly beautiful woman does.

I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.

I don't think being beautiful takes away from your credibility.

Few people realize what a handicap it is to be what people call a beautiful woman. I'm glad, of course, that I don't look like an unmade bed, but too often, I'm just taken at face value. And there aren't many men who believe a beautiful woman can have any brains.

Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.

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

When a baby is in the room with two women, and one is considered more beautiful than the other, the infant's eyes will go to the more beautiful one.

We're teaching our kids that attributes as vague and relatively meaningless as a toothy smile or a fine head of hair make a fine statement about a person.

I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.

We assume that good-looking people are smarter and more effective than they really are, and that homely people are the reverse.

Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.

You can be too pretty for comedy - man or woman.