Keeley Hawes Quotes

I personally have gone to photo shoots and see the pictures afterwards, and I don't look like me because I'm just so airbrushed and so, kind of, fake and almost plastic-looking, you know?

Fashion pictures show people looking glamorous. Travel pictures show a place looking at its best, nothing to do with the reality. In the cookery pages, the food always looks amazing, right? Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda.

Magazines airbrush everything. If you think it's an illusion, then it probably is.

I think a lot of magazine covers are heavily photoshopped and bodies are distorted to look a certain way.

There are people who expect me to look the way I do on-screen, where I have a great director of photography and fantastic lighting. I'm sorry to disappoint people, but I don't look like that all the time - no actress does.

What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway?

It is said that no star is a heroine to her makeup artist.

Celebrities do look different in real life from our images of them - there is a big gap. And that is what my work is about: the gap between the image and the celebrity themselves.

In a Photoshopped world, only the skeptical eye prevails.

There are no captions on red-carpet photos that say, 'This girl trained for two weeks, she went on a juice diet, she has a professional hair and makeup person, and this dress was made for her.' I just wish they'd say, 'It ain't the truth.'

I'm not a prettier everywoman. I am an everywoman that they clean up awfully well for T.V.

I'd hate to be really beautiful on telly and then have everyone go, 'It's all make-up and lighting.'

I think there's a perception out there that people know me based on these glamorous photos they see of me in magazines, but I have about two hours of hair and makeup and then people to dress me, to make me look even better, in those pictures.

I can understand there are things like shadows they need to fix after a shoot, but it's unfair to represent an image of yourself if it's not true. They're gonna see what you look like on film anyway, so why try to cover all your wobbly bits in a photo?

If somebody doesn't have enough judgment to be able to look at plastic surgery and realize how phony it is, then they can't be helped.

I do think it's important for young women to know that magazine covers are retouched. People don't really look like that.

Even on television, I am full of fake hair and covered in body makeup head-to-toe.

Sometimes, if I see a picture and I can make it a bit better, then I will, like everyone else does. I've been Photoshopped in every picture since I started modelling.

There is makeup, there is hair, and there is the perfect light. There is a whole team that gets you to get that perfect picture. It's a fantasy.

I get this weird, existential crisis when I'm looking through Instagram - and then I'll realize we work in entertainment. We know all the smoke and mirrors.

Very fitted dresses look much better on TV, even though in reality they might be so tight that I can barely move in them.

I think reality television has made the fashion industry and the beauty industry, any industry - frankly, just life - it has made life seem much different than it really is.

Television brings with it two dangerous hazards: the worship of celebrity and the blurring of reality and fantasy.

Don't ever believe what you see in films.

I think social media is painting an unattainable picture of perfection.