Non-Traditional Looks Quotes

It's true in the beginning I started playing villains, and I think that's pretty clear, because if you don't conventionally look a certain way and you've got a certain kind of presence when you're young, then what's available to you is character roles, and the best character roles when you're young tend to be villains.

The first lead that I ever played was a young Boy George when I was seventeen. I shaved my eyebrows off. That's as far from leading man looks as you can get.

The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.

Men are definitely getting more avant-garde, experimenting with colours, patterns and fabrics.

I'm quite lucky in that at certain angles I look all right, and at others I don't look so good, which enables me to play some leading roles and some stranger, more 'character'-type parts. I wouldn't say I'm the conventional handsome Hollywood leading man.

People always say to me, 'You're really attractive - in an unusual way.' No one ever just says, 'You're attractive.'

Sometimes, when you go to airport and look at the people, you see the worst looks - but the worst looks can give you more ideas than the best looks.

I'm not a classically beautiful person, but hopefully it increases my longevity as an actress that my career isn't dependent on my great, great good looks.

I'm bigger than the typical model, and I'm shorter, too. I really can't say why it's all worked for me.