Felicity Kendal Quotes

What, like I want to look like Dick Clark? No. I think I look great with liver spots.

I hate what I look like on TV, and I want to look better, and nothing makes the mothers more jealous.

Beauty lasts five minutes. Maybe longer if you have a good plastic surgeon.

Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all.

You can tell when someone has had a facelift and I haven't had a facelift, and I look like I haven't had a facelift.

I definitely believe in plastic surgery. I don't want to be an old hag. There's no fun in that.

I had a face-lift, and I would have another if I needed one. It definitely changed my life. I'm not vain. In fact I don't like looking at myself. The face-lift was just about looking rested.

I'm not girly girly enough to care how I look on TV, or if I'm wearing the correct make up.

As far as TV goes, of course there's pressure to look good. It's not something I've ever cared about too much.

I have regular peels and Botox. It's something I'll always do. People redecorate their homes every few years, and I see this as no different. Changing my face is like buying a new sofa.

I hope I never become that person who is all about getting Botox.

People think we really look good. I think that's the biggest misconception people have.

I don't want to be younger, I just want to look it.

I like to look nice, but I'm not marketing being beautiful.

It's amazing what a spray-on tan will do.

You don't think people would go on about my looks if I was No. 500 in the world instead of No.12, do you? Anyway, as I keep telling everyone, you can't blame me for looking like this on purpose.

I see women in their 30s getting plastic surgery, pulling this up and tucking that back. It's like a slippery slope - once you start you pull one thing one way and then you think, 'Oh my God, I've got to do the other side.'

I wouldn't say I'm vain - I'm just in a job where the way you look is important. Well, at least the facelift wasn't vanity, but the hair was.

I remember when I was starting out as a young actress, thinking, 'Oh my God, I have the fattest face.' Now I look at those pictures and I think, 'So much collagen!'

Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.

When you're a regular gal, you look in the rearview mirror, and in the bright daylight you see that line around your mouth, but when you're an actress and you see that line up on the big screen, it's, like, seven feet long.

Ageing is one of those battles you're not going to win. I'll try to look as good as I can as long as I can. I don't think I'll do cosmetic surgery because I'm a wimp.

I don't know why women do Botox. It doesn't make them look younger, it just makes them look like they had work done. You are not going to look the same as you did at 25.

I've never had Botox. But I like people to imagine I have.

I hate that thing that if you are over 45, and you're going to be on telly or make films, you have to do all this stupid stuff to your face. I would no more let someone stick a needle in my forehead than fly to the moon.