Quotes About Standards

The fact is I'm choosy, but mainly about a man's character. He has to be interesting, funny and clever. I don't even mind if he's not very good-looking.

Not everyone is equally good-looking.

I could never fall in love just for money. I like my co-stars, and they are a bunch of good-looking men. But I've dated an actor. My dream man has to be a lot more than just good looking and rich!

A lot of those good-looking girl parts aren't very fun.

I was never that kind of star. I was never cast because I was gorgeous.

I think it must be so hard to start your career with everyone going on about how gorgeous you are. To be in that bracket must be so pressurised.

So many times, I watch games and think, 'Man, why is that guy trying to score like that? He can't do it.' But he's been told his whole life, 'You have to go get 40 if you want to be one of the top dogs.' It's my goal to build a lane where you can be a top dog, and you don't gotta go get that 40. You can go get four and still be a top dog.

If I came home with a grade of A, my father would say, 'There must have been a lot of dummies in that class.'

I don't think anyone can accept us being 51st in the country dealing with fourth-grade math scores and reading scores in the fourth and sixth grades that are close to the bottom. That's not acceptable. It's not acceptable to the people of Alabama.

I don't think that the Grammys are in any way a just way of grading music.

I find it grotesque when clothes hit you in the face and there's no room for fault. But I don't expect to turn things around all by myself. I'm not a saint.

Being pretty was always a very big thing growing up.

Making checklists of things you're looking for in a person is the numero uno thing you can do to guarantee you'll be alone forever.

I measure myself against everybody, not just the shooting guards.

When I came into this industry I set down some guidelines for myself. And I plan to stick to them.

I think gymnastics was associated with the 10. I thought that belonged to the sport, and somehow we gave it way.

People think it's so easy to make hamburgers. That consistent quality in so many restaurants, in that many parts of the world, is not an easy thing to do.

I am old and do not suffer fools gently and if you expect me to review your work, it better meet my stringent standards for logic and science.

Getting over an unfavorable impression is ever so much easier than living up to an ideal.

If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.

If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.

Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy.

Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy. As if a man could choose not only his wife but his wife's husband!

By a peculiar thermometric adjustment, when a woman's talent is at zero, journalistic approbation is at the boiling pitch; when she attains mediocrity, it is already at no more than summer heat; and if ever she reaches excellence, critical enthusiasm drops to the freezing point.