David Bailey Quotes

It's not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality.

If you look at tennis, the girls have become much more attractive; they wear makeup. In my generation, you were a tennis player. It wasn't like you had to look a certain way.

Sadly, in any industry and in any work-related environment, females always strive to achieve a certain amount of perfection, whether that be skinny or pretty. It's a constant, in our society.

It would have been very easy for me to put on a little tight skirt and go out and try what I always call the 'Barbie doll' roles.

A naked woman in heels is a beautiful thing. A naked man in shoes looks like a fool.

The standards by which a woman's appearance is judged on the news are different to men, there's no question about that. Our clothes are different, for starters, they're much more varied, they're commented upon, there's no question about that. But do you have to be really good-looking? I don't think that's true.

There's so much judgment geared toward young girls. People just expect so much from girls. Even physically and aesthetically, people expect us to always look right, to have a certain etiquette - to talk a certain way and act a certain way - and to know certain things. It's all different expectations, but there are always expectations.

Women are blessed with lots and lots of extra ways to win or lose validation. If you're a woman, you'll be judged on your beauty and your wit and how often you smile. You'll be judged on how much hair you have in some places and not in others.

There's a lot of stupid men out there who feel like makeup is a betrayal of the truth, and that is so funny to me.

There are some women out there who are just going to look better with a mustache: that's statistics.

I have never met an ugly woman.

And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.

I don't know any women who don't think about what they look like, and I don't know any men who don't think about what women look like.

Certainly, I am writing as a 21st-century woman, so I am much more inclined to view her as a three-dimensional woman. I think we keep coming up with this stubborn problem of a woman being judged by her appearance rather than her accomplishments. We are much more inclined to ask: was Cleopatra beautiful?

From a male perspective, you don't think about how much outward pressure and importance you put on how women look.

A lot of women don't like when they're sort of fat, but a fat foot is as beautiful as a skinny foot. Think of Greek statues. Look how many people love the foot of the baby! There is something super-charming about the baby foot.

People make such a big deal about how people in bands look, especially if you're a girl.

The industry is quite chauvinistic generally. Expectations of women, girls, what they should look like, how they should be, what they should say, what they should wear, how their hair should be, what colour their skin should be.

I liked women as a shape to dress.

All women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols.

It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time.

I definitely love women. They are more attractive to the naked eye.

I live by a man's code, designed to fit a man's world, yet at the same time I never forget that a woman's first job is to choose the right shade of lipstick.

I think dancing is a man's game and if he does it well he does it better than a woman.

Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.