Quotes About Standards

The rich are different. Their wants are very high maintenance. They'll pick eye color and hair color, all the way down to what she does for a living, what school she went to. Their list can be extremely long. But at the end of the day, dating is dating, because they're human beings.

As an actress - and as an actor, too, but it's worse for actresses - you constantly get picked apart for how you look.

The public always picks quality.

I'm pretty tough and picky when it comes to actors that I admire.

I'm very picky when it comes to men. I come across a man who I'm really attracted to about once every five years.

I'm pretty picky about what I do and who I work with, for better or for worse.

I have been considerably picky for somebody who's not a movie star, and sometimes I get frustrated.

Sometimes, if I see a picture and I can make it a bit better, then I will, like everyone else does. I've been Photoshopped in every picture since I started modelling.

Well, it takes a certain amount of money. And I've got to see pictures of the person ahead of time. If I don't like the way the person looks I won't do it.

If you look at all the pictures of women in magazines, everybody's got a forehead that looks like a billboard. Completely blank.

Digital photography and Photoshop have made it very easy for people to take pictures. It's a medium that allows a lot of mediocre stuff to get through.

Even the duster in my house has to be beautiful; no old piece of cloth will ever be used in its place.

Given the state of English schools in the 1970s, a national curriculum, Ofsted, regular testing, publication of performance results, have all helped to raise standards by shining a light into the walled garden and letting parents know what is going on inside the school walls.

Men in their 40's grow a beard and presto! They've achieved Silver Fox status. Meanwhile, I am sitting in front of a mirror using a mascara wand and eye shadow palette to painstakingly colour in my greying roots, because this 40 year old got a little too comfortable in her skin and didn't go for a touch up in time.

You always wanna make the best record you ever made, and if I feel like I didn't do that, I wouldn't put it out.

I have my own high standards for what I want in a partner and how I want to be treated. I bring a lot to the table. I'm not talking about material things but what I have to offer as a person - love and loyalty and all the things that make a good relationship.

If you want someone to say, 'She's so sweet, and she's so cute, and, honey, point your foot,' that's not my school. You can go to the YMCA and have a nobody teach your kid if that's what you want to hear.

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.

I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there's too much guilt.

If you're a kid wanting to be a cartoonist today, and you're looking at Family Guy, you don't have to aim very high.

I still worry that I could be better. That's where standards come from, from not wanting to settle. The fear of not being good enough propels you.

When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don't advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy.

Limbaugh has been warning us about a deep cultural rot in our intellectual class, an accelerating collapse of standards, and the institutions necessary to support and sustain limited government. Yet, the Beltway consultant class and the party leadership would not listen.