William Goldman Quotes

I always say, 'Perfection is the flaw. It doesn't exist.' I saw something somewhere about 'porcelain pores' - you're not even allowed to have pores anymore!

No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.

If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.

Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.

Beauty is aspirational - an ideal that mortals approach but seldom attain.

When I was younger and really interested in acting, I would look at all the women on TV, and even the ones who were supposed to be 'geeks' or 'less attractive,' they all looked similar because they were extremely attractive and their bodies were all a certain way.

I can't get into all that physical stuff of having to have flawless skin... Sometimes you see people and it looks like someone's got an eraser and made their face a little blurry - their traits seem to go out of focus.

I work in an industry where everyone is flawlessly beautiful, but I just want to be healthy.

I think Halle Berry is one of the most beautiful women on the planet.

The misfortune is that many people, men and women, think that the perfect face has no flaws, no pores in the skin; and that gives unrealistic levels of esteem. Somebody feels they're not right because they haven't got that type of refinement.

When I first came to America, you know, I would look at the newsstands and see the women on the magazine covers. I had never seen anyone smile the way these girls smile! It's like they have nothing to worry about!

New York City has the most beautiful women.

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

I mean, I'm obviously not one of those people who's so beautiful women take their clothes off when I walk into the room. I didn't become a star overnight.

I'm always suspicious of really beautiful women telling us we shouldn't be worried about beauty.

If you look at most beauty advertisements, you would think that makeup is only for beautiful women in their early twenties.

We seem to live a culture that doesn't want blemishes. The vision of most beautiful models... airbrushed in order to be seen as perfect, infects our notion of how literature should be written.

Anything looks good if you've got the body of a Victoria's Secret model and the porelessly smooth skin-tone of a piece of glass.

Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.

What I find most upsetting about this new all-consuming beauty culture is that the obsession with good looks, and how you can supposedly attain them, is almost entirely female-driven.

There are so many glamorous actresses, but you know what? In the real world, nobody looks like that.

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

In most movies, they show you somebody who is perfect looks-wise, and skills-wise, and the movie doesn't give you a choice.

Anyone who's had a finger pointed at them and been told they're pretty or attractive, there's a power that comes with that. But beauty for a woman becomes cumbersome because it's always being equated with youth.

People try to sell a fantasy with beauty campaigns. Overly Photoshopped, perfect, white, thin figures are a standard that most people still hold as beautiful because the industry says so.