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Quotes About Standards

Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
When you make a film like this, you must have the highest expectations of your audience. Having worked in situations where we have the lowest expectations of our audience.
~ Atom Egoyan
By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14.
~ Issey Miyake
A lot of the time, you see something really beautiful, but if you don't have the perfect figure and are a really small size, it won't work well for you.
~ Camila Alves
I've never been a size 0.
~ Camila Alves
The average size of a woman is 14.
~ Melissa McCarthy
I had to find a diet that would kick me back into dating shape, because I know that I can't date at size 8. I have to date at size 2. And it's just a fact of nature. Go get your injections and your chemical peels. You gotta look good to attract a man.
~ Patti Stanger
I was essentially paid to perpetuate the myth that we are all, or should at least try to be, 17 and a size 2 forever.
~ Carre Otis
I still am not a size two - I don't think I could get there if I wanted to.
~ Casey Wilson
I am not one to equate dress size and artistic performance.
~ Jessye Norman
The average British woman is a size 12 to 14, but in modelling, a size 12 is considered huge, which is ridiculous.
~ Marie Helvin
It's crazy that most high-end designers stop at a size 14.
~ Jane Goldman
I find it infuriating that in this industry, size 10 and above is defined as 'plus size,' especially when the average dress size in the U.K. is a 16.
~ Jameela Jamil
The clothes back in those days were made so much better than clothes are today. They actually took time to make clothes to fit a woman's body. Today they make clothes that fit sizes, so it stretches to fit this and that.
~ Debbie Allen
I don't know what a good sketch show is.
~ Harry Enfield
I think people are purists about what sketch comedy should be, and I think sometimes having too much fun can be a little annoying to some people.
~ Horatio Sanz
At all times, there's discussion about the percentage of body fat I have, how I look on the ice and about how much skin a certain costume is showing.
~ Tessa Virtue
The industry is quite chauvinistic generally. Expectations of women, girls, what they should look like, how they should be, what they should say, what they should wear, how their hair should be, what colour their skin should be.
~ Gemma Arterton
Men don't really like skinny, do they?
~ Angelina Jolie
Let's face it, it's a skinny world out there.
~ John Pinette
In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
I've realized skinny isn't necessarily attractive. Guys like girls with curves.
~ Nina Dobrev
I don't know who decided that skinny was more appealing than not skinny. It seems arbitrary.
~ Gwyneth Paltrow
Really skinny actresses make me hungry - I see them and think, Honey, you need to eat!
~ Miranda Lambert