Jude Law Quotes

I had a very hard time accepting myself as a character actress because I wanted to be glamorous and a leading lady like everybody else. I looked in the mirror and thought I looked pretty good, but casting didn't ever see me that way.

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.

I was never the ingenue or the pretty girlfriend of Tom Cruise in a movie. I didn't have that career, so I don't have to compete on that level.

I don't want to be the stupid blond. I want to be an actor.

As women, we tend to take the easy way out in showbiz. I have done movies where all I did was look pretty in every frame.

A women's greatest asset is her beauty.

I think you can find yourself on one of these shows for a long period of time and think that all you'll ever be able to do is that character. Certainly people think of you that way.

Sometimes a woman's looks or sensuality are too readily wrapped up in their power.

I think people are learning to actually aspire to be objectified.

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

I think of myself as an actor first, not a sex symbol. Do I think I'm sexy? No, that's someone else's judgment, and I honestly don't think you can try to be sexy and really succeed.

I'm not a model or an actress; I'm just a 23 year old who likes to talk about science. Why does what I look like matter so much?

Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our 'beauty' so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.

Sexy, to me, doesn't have anything to do with beautiful.

I am constantly struggling to show people that there is more to me than my appearance. You do have to try and overcome those hurdles. Female actresses need to be given the chance to be more than how they look.

From the ages of 12 to 35 my body, not my mind, was my primary currency. My ideas, my humor, my curiosity - none of those were valued as much as my body, which preceded me into almost every room.

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

My whole life, I've been judged for how I look, which is part and parcel of being in the public eye, playing sexy roles and posing for lad's mags, but I want people to like me for my personality and brain.

Beautiful women must think about their beauty as capitalists think about their investments or politicians about their majorities; it is all they have to insure their places in the world.

I was so irritated that people in Denmark considered me to be this serious guy who only did dramatic roles.

Our society is constantly creating this framework for girls to feel that their only worth is their appearance, and it's damaging on so many levels to so many people.

There never were any roles for my kind of acting. That's the story of my life.

I'm not a sex symbol, at least in the conventional sense.

For a long time I wasn't allowed to be anything but 'The Governess' when I went on TV, even if I went on a talk show I had to be in costume. I mean guys, I own clothes!

People perceive actresses in a different manner when they are portrayed glamorously. I don't want that to happen with me.