Quotes About Standards

I hope this doesn't sound pretentious, but I very often like the way Europeans make movies. I think sometimes that don't they care about having to clean certain things.

Pretty is so boring now. There are so many different definitions of 'pretty.' It's so much broader than before. The old pretty is boring - nobody cares anymore.

Okay, I am happy with the way I look, but I have never, never, ever thought of myself as a 'pretty girl.' Honestly. When I read some of these scripts I'm sent, and they describe the heroine as 'incredibly beautiful,' I wonder why they sent it to me.

I'm not homely enough to play the nerdy girl and not nearly pretty enough to play the pretty girl.

I have no idea what my batting average was in high school, but I know it wasn't below .450, and that's pretty good hitting where I come from.

You couldn't really like a bad guitar in 1960 'cause everybody was pretty good.

I thought, if I was going to date an actor, I wanted a real actor.

I never get out of bed for less than $10,000 a day.

Back in the days of Barbara Stanwyck and Bette Davis, beauty wasn't the be-all and end-all it is today.

'Dear Society' really is my letter to society where I express the anguish I've been caused from such an image-based industry and culture we live in.

Unless I think I can manage to make something decent, I won't.

We live in a world and a profession where you win a game, you lose the next one and you're deemed a failure.

What defines 'success' - answering that question - is so important when you're growing up as an athlete. Success for one kid is different than for another kid.

Hopefully, if we stop using the term plus-size we can just create a broader definition for what a model is.

We have all these restaurants and the worry is that they have to deliver the same quality.

Demand excellence.

That's just how I live my life. That's how I was raised: to demand excellence out of myself.

If you demand the best, sometimes you get it.

In Madrid, the demand is maximum, and you have to always be at the top. If you are not, doubts come.

I'm not a machine. I don't see why people demand more of me than of other players.

I think all managers have to be so demanding.

I can be very critical on myself and on other people; I can be very demanding.

I think I'm more demanding than any wife.

I am demanding.