Erma Bombeck Quotes

I feel like everything will be a letdown after 'You're The Worst.' It was such a great experience.

Having plastic surgery is pathetic. You don't look any younger; you look well for a bit until it starts going again, but it takes all the character out.

In 1985, I saw a tape of myself where my eyes were puffy. I looked very tired and bedraggled and not as youthful as I would like to have been.

I am really OK with the way I look. It's fine. All this is transient. I mean, it's really, you know, it changes with time, and that's the external.

If you saw me without makeup, you wouldn't recognize me.

I am not sure about facelifts because I wouldn't want to be someone who just looks like she's had a facelift.

I modeled for a little while in college. I was desperate to travel, and I got scouted, and they wanted me to go to Paris and London for six months. And I discovered that I hated it. I didn't like the expectation to be pretty all the time.

It's nice not to have lines when you frown, especially on TV. I don't know why people make such a fuss about it. No one is interested if a woman has her teeth capped or her hair dyed.

I was always handsome under all the fat.

I always hated my mole growing up. I even thought about having it removed. At the time I didn't do it because I thought it would hurt, and now I'm glad I didn't.

I'm not always going to keep waiting for a fairytale ending.

It took me a while to accept that I'm not going to have the curves other girls get.

I don't look like Halle Berry. But chances are she's going to end up looking like me.

I hate being looked at. Can't stand it. I know, I know - I picked the wrong career. I should have been a doctor. If you play certain parts you have this nice face painted on you, and then you have feel as if you have a responsibility to this idea of being beautiful. I hate that about our business.

You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.

I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.

I did some pretty embarrassing modeling, like catalogs and QVC. I know there's probably a stereotype where all pretty girls think they're unattractive, but modeling is the worst thing for your self-esteem, because you're never pretty enough, you're never thin enough.

I personally would not have plastic surgery. What the hell for? It looks ridiculous.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.

I'm disappointed. I don't care about Will Smith, I don't want to.

I would never go blonde. I'd look crazy.

If you get a wrinkle, I don't feel that's indicative of your losing ground. That's ridiculous.

My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business.

I would never want the responsibility of being the prettiest girl on screen; it's too much.