Ann Nocenti Quotes

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.

When I was 15, I didn't think I was the prettiest at all. But then something happened when I was 20-something - I thought, actually, I really like what I look like. Just because I don't look like everybody else doesn't mean that I can't be just as beautiful.

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

I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.

I'm not an eye-candy kind of girl.

Listen: I'm OK cute. I'm no stunner.

As long as you feel confident, you're going to look beautiful. You don't need to be a stick figure to be beautiful.

Some people say I'm not a very pretty woman, but I'm a very beautiful woman inside.

I am a very poppy little girl. I wasn't allowed to be poppy at first because y'know in my mind, pop stars are thin and beautiful and light, and I've never felt beautiful, skinny and light.

Nobody knows what really a beautiful person is, so don't worry. If you have pimples today, it's nothing. If you have a bad hair day, it's nothing. Feel beautiful. Feel sexy, and it will shine. It will show outside.

I never looked in the mirror and felt beautiful.

Every person has the right to look and feel like a million bucks.

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

My eyes are too small, and they're too close together, and I have a pointy nose. But who cares? Who cares?!

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

I'm no pin-up.

I'm not a pin-up, thankfully. I'm not suggesting I feel unconfident. I am beautiful to my husband. I am beautiful to my friends. I feel sexy and all those things with the people I love.

I certainly used to wish that I was skinny, lighter-skinned, with long, pretty hair. But only because I used to get made fun of for being the absolute opposite. I didn't see all of that stuff as the American Dream. I just wanted to look normal. Now that I'm older, I really do feel like I am a beautiful girl.

I'm not as beautiful as a model.

I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.

I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, 'Well you're never gonna be the prettiest girl in the room, so just don't even try.' I mean, I care about being pretty, but it's not my most valued thing.

There is nothing more beautiful than a confident woman.

I really do believe that my style is informed by the fact that I had such issues with my appearance at various times of my life.

I'm not a supermodel. I make the best of what I've got.

There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.