Barbie Ferreira Quotes

I have never met an ugly woman.

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.

Women in Hollywood are tiny, but women in soap operas are the tiniest people alive!

If you're a young woman in Hollywood, then they want you to look a certain way and paint you in this and that.

I still don't know what the 'ideal' woman is. Waifs will always be in demand because it's a lot easier to design for straight up and down rather than round curves. This is the reality, unfortunately.

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.

Women's currency is their looks. Like it or not, the most powerful woman is an 18-year-old woman.

I don't think I'm curvaceous. It's simply that most other actresses are really, stupidly tiny.

Can I just say here how much I hate the word 'pamper'? While pretending to celebrate and indulge women, it actually implies that their bodies are so revolting that even their 'me time' must be dedicated to turning them into living dolls if potential suitors are to be prevented from running screaming in horror.

Americans like fat books and thin women.

To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.

I think clothes hang beautifully on thin women.

I look at Jessica Alba and think she's got a great body. I think that's what women are supposed to look like.

If you look at tennis, the girls have become much more attractive; they wear makeup. In my generation, you were a tennis player. It wasn't like you had to look a certain way.

I have never understood models. I find it really hard to find beauty in that or to discover beauty because the beauty was so obvious.

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

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.

The mass audience doesn't want to see you if you aren't perfect. If you don't look a certain way, if you don't have big pecs and great skin and the perfect eyes. And it's unfortunate, because kids are growing up with body image dysmorphia because not everyone is represented on the screen.

I'll never be like a Barbie girl, that's for sure.

On the publicity tour of 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding,' I was asked over and over again, if, as the writer, I felt it was a fair depiction of real life to have someone of my er, below average looks, hook up with hottie John Corbett.

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.

I'm not that good looking... nobody is that good looking. I have seen a lot of movie stars, and maybe four are amazing looking. The rest have a team of gay guys who make it happen.

I do think it's important for young women to know that magazine covers are retouched. People don't really look like that.

We had terrible trouble finding a Buttercup because she had to be so beautiful. We had all kinds of pretty girls come in, but they weren't this staggering thing.

I feel I'm such a big part of that insecurity that some girls might have because of my job, that girls think they have to be that picture. And even boys, they think that that picture exists, and it's so frustrating because I don't look like that picture - I wake up not looking like that picture.