Justine Skye Quotes

The true value of somebody in this town is very hard to determine. It's all smoke and mirrors.

A lot of people are obsessed with looking cool. They feel they have to look after their image.

Fashion isn't me, even though I work in it. It's just materialistic stuff.

Masks are wonderfully paradoxical in this way: while they may hide the physical reality, they can show us how a person wants to be seen.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality.

I do a lot of things for effect, which is not to say I am superficial, but that I know how to put ideas across.

We are obsessed with image. I don't think we should take it that seriously.

I'm not big into images. I'm into reality.

The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air.

You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don't necessarily have to be real enough to be real. There is a distinction.

I like dressing like I'm going on a date when I'm on stage.

In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.

I like being photographed without glasses. I don't want to be pretentious.

You often see lifestyle over substance in L.A. Some rock stars dress up like they're going to play a gig when they're just going to the 7-Eleven store on a Tuesday night.

I don't think I appear very cool to people who observe me on the ground.

Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound. It is so timid and dislikes going into the water.

It can be a real struggle to accept that sometimes appearance can be more important than talent or intelligence.

Appear tougher or cooler or funnier than you feel and there is a chance you'll make it.

On parties it's not about who you are. The real reason to which a party revolves is how good you look.

But we're lost in a world of appearances now.

And even though people like to furrow their brow like they suspect you're not being honest about yourself, the truth is that they worry that you're not serving their idea of you.

Outward appearances mean everything.

It is in most cases more difficult to make intelligent people believe that you are what you are not, than really to become what you would appear to be.