School is not a great place to have feminine features or a big nose, or to wear glasses or the wrong shoes.
It's fine being stared at as a pretty girl, but not as a freak. When I tried to make myself ugly, they said, 'Oh, she's lost her looks.'
The fact that women are constantly supposed to be beautiful, gorgeous, and perfect all the time is something they have always had to live with. But now it's happening to men, too. There seems to be this imperative that you have to be hot or ripped or fit or healthy or whatever you want to call it.
It's not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality.
I wish we lived in a world where how you looked or what you wore wasn't an issue for men or women, and it's by and large not an issue for men, so I wish it wasn't an issue for women, but it is.
Women are blessed with lots and lots of extra ways to win or lose validation. If you're a woman, you'll be judged on your beauty and your wit and how often you smile. You'll be judged on how much hair you have in some places and not in others.
I know plenty of actresses in their early thirties who look amazing, although there's that old saying: 'Ladies get older, men get more distinguished.'
There's the beautiful people and then there's the rest of us.
I've gotten work based on how I look, and I've not gotten work based on how I look. It's all good.
You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little potbelly and a bald spot.
People who are against me attack me personally. They attack the way I look physically, they attack the way I dress, they attack everything but what I say.
Beauty judgements are many and while we think that light skin women have no judgements to deal with. There is this filmmaker I love and respect and I really wanted to work with, once told me 'You are too fair to be in my movies.' And then I have also heard 'You are too pretty to play this part.'
I think sometimes people say a comment and don't realise they're body shaming. I don't think people are body-shamers, maybe just body-judgers. People will say throw-away comments.
Practically everything I've been offered didn't require much beyond looking like me.
Well, I think mostly we're dressing for men.
People have such an immediate judgment of me because I have tattoos or because my hair is sometimes crazy.
I know that people get cast based on how they look in Hollywood.
When you are intelligent and beautiful you face a lot of problems. If you are beautiful and stupid then it's easy.
I was raised to be self-conscious about weight. Then as I got older and started doing television, it became a career issue, like, 'You have to lose weight or you'll lose that job.'
I think clothes hang beautifully on thin women.
How you look has become ridiculously disproportionate to what you do. Critics are more harsh on female presenters.
Women get scrutinized based on appearance far more than men. And look, I speak from experience here. When I wear a bad outfit on the air, I get viewer e-mail complaining about it. A lot of e-mail. Seriously.
Something happened culturally: No one is supposed to age past 45 - sartorially, cosmetically, attitudinally.
Having watched 'The Lone Ranger,' I asked my dad, 'You think we can be on TV like that guy?' He said, 'Probably not. You have to be 6 feet and blond to work in TV and movies.' I said, 'But what about that guy? Jay Silverheels?'
While men pretend not to judge women for the way they look, we go to great lengths to pretend we don't care, either.
