Emma Thompson Quotes

I've been told to wear different things, to look different, to lose weight, to look sexier, to wear more hair, to wear more makeup.

Even my mother told me: 'You are a handsome woman, but you're not pretty. Pretty girls don't have those big bones.'

There's a lot of amazing women out there. There's a lot of hot models. But models are the worst, because they're models, you have to always step up and always look good.

Beauty pageants in general are foreign and noxious to me: I can barely muster the energy to put on lip gloss and mascara.

Women spend their lives trying to look good for men. So a woman who feels she's sending the right visual signals is pleased with herself.

And there is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean.

With women, the way they look... it's the core of their self-esteem.

If you want to do what you want to do, you have to look a certain way.

I find the whole concept of being 'sexy' embarrassing and confusing. If I do a photo-shoot, people desperately want to change me - dye my hair blonder, pluck my eyebrows, give me a fringe. Then there's the choice of clothes. I know everyone wants a picture of me in a mini-skirt. But that's not me.

I didn't understand why people cared about my hair or my makeup or my clothing. It was like, 'I'm a prosecutor. I'm not a model. I'm not an actress.'

We are living in a world where image is important and we feel the need to confirm to a standard of what beauty is and how beauty should look like. We look at the billboard, and feel something is lacking in us.

Just like any other girl, I felt pressure to look a certain way. Act a certain way.

Even if I weren't in Hollywood, I would feel pressure to look a certain way.

A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't.

I hate being too pretty.

Not just as a black woman, but as a woman, since the beginning of time, beauty has been our responsibility.

I don't know any women who don't think about what they look like, and I don't know any men who don't think about what women look like.

I don't want to have to be beautiful all the time. I want to be able to look cruddy in my weekend sweats, with a pimple on my face and pimple cream on top of the pimple. The expectation to always be beautiful bothers me.

I have a friend who, if she has a bad hair day, it affects her whole mood because it is part of her sexuality, her confidence. I don't have that problem any more.

I always wear make-up as I've never seen the point of looking less than your best.

If I walk outside without lipstick, I feel naked.

It's never enjoyable watching yourself. Because you're never as good looking as you hope you are. You're not expecting to be Penelope Cruz... but I'm a female of the species. I have my hang-ups and all of that.

People put too much emphasis on looks.

I'd hate to be a sex symbol. Because you're always having to live up to an image. I haven't got time to sit around doing my nails.

Girls know when they're attractive.