Giada De Laurentiis Quotes

I've known attractive airheads, and I've known ugly idiots.

There have been instances when people have told me that I look too intelligent to be an actress.

People expect me to be stupid. I'm not saying I'm Stephen Fry, but it is amazing the perception people have.

The world believes all blondes are stupid and brunettes are smarter. Well, I disagree.

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.

I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.

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

Women shouldn't be expected to only play nurturing, kind caretakers.

It's interesting in seeing when I'm talking to men in particular and telling them I'm an actress versus a director and the different turn the conversation will take when I say I'm a director. The level of respect is very interesting.

Nobody expects a footballer to have any kind of an IQ, which is a bit of an unfair stereotype.

Gentlemen prefer blondes.

I look thuggish when I shave my head and wear big boots. I walk into a newsagent and people think I'm going to jump the counter.

I look like an accountant. And no offense to accountants! There's some really cool accountants out there.

People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap.

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

I definitely believe in type casting. If you're a girl with bleach-blonde hair, everyone automatically thinks 'prom queen, cheerleader.' It just happens.

I got tired of books where the boy is a bit thick and the girl's very clever. Why does it have to such an opposition? Why can't they be like the girls and boys that I know personally, who are equally funny and equally cross? Who get things equally wrong and are equally brave? And make the same mistakes?

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

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

Because I'm a woman, and I'm petite and blonde, you wouldn't believe how often I'm asked to model the clothes.

But the privileges that one has enjoyed and exploited can sometimes turn against you: nobody thinks of you as a director, you are always an actress.

I think that when people look at me, and they look at my height and my voice and my coloring, they automatically think, 'Tough.'

Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.

People have such an immediate judgment of me because I have tattoos or because my hair is sometimes crazy.

I don't want to go and play a cliched Indian girl.