Paulina Porizkova Quotes

I wonder if it is harder for a woman who was beautiful to get older or a woman who was never looked at.

I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older until I drop dead of beauty.

One of the few advantages to not being beautiful is that one usually gets better-looking as one gets older; I am, in fact, at this very moment, gaining my looks.

One of the few advantages to not being beautiful is that one usually gets better-looking as one gets older. I am, in fact, at this very moment gaining my looks.

Nothing is more ridiculous in old people that were once good-looking, than to forget that they are not so still.

Hair is about when you're younger. I am my hair.

I want to be age appropriate. I don't want to be that girl you see walking away and she looks 25 and then she turns around and she looks 90.

I don't like getting older, but there's nothing I can do. Hitting 60 wasn't great, but I think I was lucky in not being that beautiful; it can be really cruel on people who have been stunning.

I used to be prettier than I am, but I think I look better now. I was a pretty boy. Particularly in my early movies. I don't like looking at them so much. There's a sort of pretty thing about me.

My looks were good enough for what I needed in every possible way but not so much to be a burden.

In my 40s, I expect to finally reap the average-looking girl's revenge. I've entered the stage of life where you don't need to be beautiful; simply by being well-preserved and not obese, I would now pass for pretty.

At seventy-four I'm getting minor raves on my looks, but I'm caught in the middle. Who knows what seventy-four looks like? Who cares? But if I'd listened to my friends, I could now lie and say I'm eighty-four. For eighty-four, the way I look is spectacular.

Well, I am an extremely beautiful person.

When she looked in the mirror these days, she saw someone she didn't recognize...She saw an old woman trying to be beautiful, her skin dry and her wrinkles like cracks. She looked like a very well-dressed winter apple.

The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.

Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.

Being eye candy always was a short-term career, and here's the reason. The world finds young women more attractive than old women because youthfulness signals fertility.

I have never been beautiful in cliche terms.

If anything, when you're in your late 20s, early 30s, and then mid-30s, you're getting less attractive.

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

With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.

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.

I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are beauties, entertainers or prostitutes) are rather sad, as one should surely have something more substantial to recommend one by this time, such as kindness or cleverness.

This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.