Bernadette Peters Quotes

I'd much rather be known as some curvy Kate than as some skinny stick.

When I was growing up, one or two girls were beautiful, but it was not an aspiration, right?

A tall woman can be just as feminine as a petite woman.

I was a big girl considering herself beautiful, which is in conservative Israel had never been seen.

For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms.

Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life.

I was always superthin, too skinny, actually. I felt like someone could break me in half. I realize now that being a bit more curvy and toned is so much more beautiful.

Americans like fat books and thin women.

I think people are learning to actually aspire to be objectified.

Is it just me, or is the world full of beautiful women?

As an actor, whether you look good or you don't, it's still about what you look like: Whether you are heavy enough to play this part or thin enough to play that part. The fact of the matter is, you can add a little weight with some extra padding, but you can't shave it off.

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

I think it's hilarious when people call Jessica Alba or Eva Longoria curvy. Come on. They're not curvy. They're small. I'm curvy.

When you look at movies, the lead girl is always gorgeous and thin. There is a stereotype that you need to look a certain way and when you get in the business you really feel the pressure.

It's fascinating how much of our sense of attractiveness and feminine identity is bound up in our hair.

In Latin America, women are supposed to be voluptuous. They don't believe that you have to be skinny to be attractive.

I am five foot six, I am built of muscle and bone, and that is not very good for fashion, but it's who I am. Women who look good in fashion are six foot tall, don't have an ounce of muscle, and their legs are the size of my arm.

I have never understood the clamour for waif-like women whose flesh acts merely as a thin veil for their bones - much as I would love to be thinner, I would hate to take it so far that I had no actual shape at all.

I've got the body of a model and the face of a coal miner.

It would be impossible to be a woman in Western culture and not have your own issues about your image and what you look like.

In the '90s, I wouldn't have been a supermodel.

I wanted to be Cher for a long time, but not for the singing. I just thought she was so cool. I wanted her long hair, and I wanted to weigh five pounds.

I don't go around thinking I'm attractive or not attractive. It has never occurred to me. People don't think like that where I come from... No one has ever said, 'Oh, he's a good-looking bloke.' They just didn't use those words about men.

I'd like to be curvier.

Growing up, I wanted blond hair.