Edith Head Quotes

It's not a prerequisite for an actor to be obsessed about his looks. I know there are people who don't look in the mirror at all, and I'm getting there.

What we do to ourselves to look a certain way is crazy.

We have fallen in love with the body. That's that thing that looks back at us from the mirror. That's the repository of that lovely identity that you keep chasing all your life.

I'm cool with the way I look, I'm not an ugly dog, but I don't see myself as a stud or anything.

Some actors don't mind it. Those who are pretty. They think it's nice to be looked at because they are nice to look at. I appreciate that. I'm very happy to salute that aspiration. But I don't like the way I look so I don't like being photographed. I become defensive.

I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.

For me, it's about not being too aware of what you look like because if you are, you're trying too hard and I don't think that actually makes you look good... I've known from very early on that I don't look perfect.

Sometimes I see myself in the mirror, and it's 'Oh, God!' But the minute you stick out your butt a little bit and suck it in, you go from a 6 to a 10.

I never really cared about what I looked like.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

I never considered myself a supermodel or anything like that. I mean, I don't think I'm ugly. I have good days and bad days, and I like when I'm fit and lean and all of those things that any woman likes, but it's not the eye of the hurricane for me.

If you get too caught up with the superficial part of beauty, you get too self-conscious.

I don't worry about how I look.

I don't spend a lot of time worrying about how I look and I don't fall into the trap of judging myself by my appearance.

I know some people obsess about their appearance but I don't - it's not something that bothers me.

A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't.

Women spend their lives trying to look good for men. So a woman who feels she's sending the right visual signals is pleased with herself.

As a kid I had buck teeth and braces and acne. I hated what I saw. I'm still not comfortable, but that's why I change and adapt the way I look.

I say this in the spirit of feminist encouragement, but I think I'm pretty hot. I've got all the facial features, facing the right way, at the right end, and you can always paint over the bad bits with makeup.

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

There's not one person that I say I want to look like.

Yet I've discovered that how I look is not a function of anything as ephemeral as my hair.

Even when I was in my 20s and at my most beautiful, I was never obsessed with my looks. I didn't dye my hair or wear make-up.

I remember when I was starting out as a young actress, thinking, 'Oh my God, I have the fattest face.' Now I look at those pictures and I think, 'So much collagen!'

Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.