Rene Russo Quotes

I didn't grow up beautiful.

I was beautiful. Now, because I am old, I take no shame in so saying.

I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.

I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.

I am old, but I feel very beautiful.

Oh, I had, 'No one will ever fancy me!' I had that well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. I don't mind the way I'm ageing. No reason to panic just yet. I think I look my age, and that's fine.

I always felt second best. I was never the prettiest, never the skinniest, never the fastest in my sports. Never the smartest, because I have dyslexia. Then, all of a sudden, people were like, 'You're gorgeous.' And I was like, 'What?'

Everybody knows that I'm not the most beautiful woman in the world.

If I asked you, "Do you think you're beautiful?" everyone should say yes.

If you're beautiful you don't need clothes. If you're ugly like me, you're like a house with no foundations; you need something to build you up.

I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.

I was just learning to be by myself. He seemed to really see me, see through the bullshit...He was so handsome, and he could dance. I thought, 'He won't be interested in me; I'm not a contender. He was so cool, so funny - I was such a fan of his and had always fancied his speed and his intelligence. I thought, 'I'm not beautiful enough or his type.'

It's ironic that we've built the beauty world around 20-year-olds, when they have no f - kin' concept about wisdom, what life is about, having a few relationships below [their] belt and feeling hardships, to grow into [their] skin and feel confident within [themselves] and to feel the value of who [they] are, not because of a man or because of something like that. And I think that's such a beautiful thing.

One day I decided that I was beautiful, and so I carried out my life as if I was a beautiful girl.

I'm not a great beauty. That's not me.

I think Julianne Moore is the most radiantly beautiful human being and isn't messing with nature too much. She seems like a woman who treats her body like a temple. I cannot relate to that!

I'm proud that today, at 43 years old, I've come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty.

I know a lot of people who really aren't beautiful because their attitudes are very nasty... Whether I make the 50 most beautiful list or not, I'm always going to feel like I'm number one most beautiful to myself... I get that from my mom, and my daddy and my friends who raised me.

Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.

But I always like to play ugly people who think they're pretty.

I was never an ambitious girl, or even a self-confident one. I never went in for beauty pageants or wore a stitch of make-up until I went to Los Angeles.

I've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.

Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.

Maybe you just don't see your own beauty.

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.