Quotes About Standards

It will be the kiss by which all others in your life will be judged... and found wanting.

I understand and accept criticisms of my work, provided they are done with professional criteria and arguments.

The way we function in society - it doesn't make sense sometimes because it's all based on how you look and then how badly you should feel after you eat the food we just advertised. And then when someone in the public eye goes up or down, it's like a major moment.

I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.

Very wonderful books might be published, and very terrible books might be published.

We see these cute, perfect bombshells that make me feel like I'm not good enough, I'm not pretty enough. I don't think I could pull off playing a person like that, and do I want to? I don't know.

I am too pure for you or anyone.

There was a whole slew of 'Cops and Robbersons,' just films that didn't measure up, that didn't stand for anything comedically. They were purely for a paycheck.

Society puts so much pressure on girls to look a certain way.

I think Charlize Theron is just as good when she is looking really pretty in a movie as when she gains 10 pounds and puts on a nose. I applaud her - good for her that she doesn't care. But she's just as good, whether she's pretty or not.

No one puts higher expectations on themselves than I do.

There are a lot of stuff on the record that I am thinking is generic but actually it is just as good as everybody else who is putting stuff out at the time.

I feel that to a great extent, the industry is fixated with fair skin, and that needs to change.

You don't always need to be this flawless female with amazing skin and done hair. Perfect doesn't exist.

People will watch your film only if it's good. Another star's flop won't make your film a hit. So my race is with myself.

I followed the rules, and I was a high achiever.

We like to say Miss America is the classy one. It has a talent category. I would have been dead last in Miss USA - I'm five foot three, I'm not a model, and I never wanted to be one.

There are a lot of football clubs that are fantastic football clubs but how they treat footballers is another story.

People are forever finding something wrong with you.

You can forgive if the shot is not right, or the lighting is a bit off, but not if the writing is bad.

Fortunately or unfortunately, 'Baahubali' has become a benchmark for all historical-costume dramas.

Our public culture is one in which only the young and the beautiful will succeed. If you're forty, you're finished.

We put on fights between the best fighters; we don't put on freak shows.

Women must be freed from the idea that they always have to stay young and that they must disfigure themselves at a certain age.