Richelle Mead Quotes

We all know that looks matter. What most of us don't understand is just how much looks matter and how difficult it is for us to ignore a person's appearance when making a social judgment.

Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters.

If you're an attractive guy, everyone thinks you're successful just because of the way you look. I hate that.

It's always nice to have people say you're good-looking. But I do get told I'm not right for parts because I'm too good-looking.

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

Obviously, there's more to aesthetic appearance than just race, but that is going to be the first thing that someone notices when they look at a picture.

People are incredibly literal sometimes in how they view you. You have dark hair and pale skin? You must be brooding. The second you dye your hair blond and get a spray tan, people treat you as if you're a bit stupider and happier.

Anyone that says looks don't count is lying.

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.

The real challenge is if you don't look super sexy, like a Brad Pitt, you're going to have to try harder. You're going to have to make up for it in other ways.

Beautiful people are always with us, as evolutionary psychologists and a trip to the news-stand confirm.

Not everyone is equally good-looking.

I'm intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life; things happen differently for a beautiful woman than for a plain one.

People put too much emphasis on looks.

I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.

Why is it that the hot chicks never can sing?

Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don't see somebody's brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing.

Unattractive people are more obsessed with looks.

We're teaching our kids that attributes as vague and relatively meaningless as a toothy smile or a fine head of hair make a fine statement about a person.

Pretty people aren't as accepted as other people. It's like, 'She's pretty and thin and she's got to have problems. She's messed up.'

Directors are not worried about casting beautiful women, but they are not sure that they want to cast great-looking men. My looks have prevented people from seeing my work.

Looks are temporary and don't mirror what's inside. And usually, a great looking man is so vain. Maybe most good-looking women are too. I hope I'm not!

Most people ask me were you always sexy and if I said I was born this way I'd be lying.

It's unfair but true: youth is attractive, curvy women are attractive, outliers who look a bit different to everybody else are attractive.

I guess being a hunk is a lot better than being a chunk.