Julie Burchill Quotes

Beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie.

Don't let the Disney princess hair fool you.

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

I personally have gone to photo shoots and see the pictures afterwards, and I don't look like me because I'm just so airbrushed and so, kind of, fake and almost plastic-looking, you know?

It would be a mistake to think something is wonderful just because it looks great.

It's somehow symbolic of Hollywood that Tara was just a facade, with no rooms inside.

The world is nothing but a big gimmick.

There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way.

Pretences go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so. I admire you, beloved, for the trap you've set. It's like a final chapter no one reads because the plot is over.

The whole world is run on bluff.

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

Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep.

Thank you, people who say 'Wow, you're really photogenic,' for not saying what you really mean: 'Wow, you're really ugly in person.'

I always say beauty is only sin deep.

Maybe we should have known that night in Denver that things that begin with plywood Greek columns and artificial smoke typically don't end well. Maybe the Hollywood stars and the glamour blinded us a little: you thought it was the glare, some of us thought it was a halo.

He knows much of what men paint themselves would blister in the light of what they are.

I just think, as a model, it's taught me to be a master of deception and illusion.

Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.

Any glamorous moment you might mistake me for having is always pretend.

From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.

People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.

Magazines airbrush everything. If you think it's an illusion, then it probably is.

There is makeup, there is hair, and there is the perfect light. There is a whole team that gets you to get that perfect picture. It's a fantasy.

Appearances are not reality; but they often can be a convincing alternative to it. You can control appearances most of the time, but facts are what they are. When the facts are too sharp, you can craft a cheerful version of the situation and cover the facts the way that you can covered a battered old four-slice toaster with a knitted cozy featuring images of kittens.