Quotes About Beauty

Cosmetics makers have always sold 'hope in a jar' - creams and potions that promise youth, beauty, sex appeal, and even love for the women who use them.

Teenagers, especially girl ones, seem like the perfect canary-in-the-coal-mine characters to me. They capture American culture and its perversion, its hypocrisy - how absorbed we are with youth and beauty and sexualized imagery, for instance, while preaching abstinence and modesty.

For me, beauty is more about prevention than anything. Especially now that I've hit 30, it's more about being careful and maintaining my skin. I want to keep my youth and freshness and be wrinkle-free as long as possible because I don't want to have to cheat - that's what I call any cosmetic surgeries: cheating.

I like being able to see an innocence in people. I see a lot of beauty in youth. Young people are in progress. Their faces and bodies and minds are constantly changing. It's exciting to capture that on film.

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.

No amount of skill on the part of the actress can make up for the loss of youth.

The ravaged face in the mirror hides the enchanting youth that is the real me.

Youth is beautiful.

What you want to worship above youth, I think, is beauty, and beauty is so beyond just appearances after a while. Because you can be with someone who's good-looking; if they open their mouths and they're an idiot, then they cease to be beautiful very quickly.

Have you seen some of the women - and the men - in Los Angeles? They pay surgeons to make them look completely different in the hope of finding their youth. But youth comes from within. If you have a young attitude, then that can show in your face, the way you walk and move.

I used to play a lot of foreign women in my youth because I was prettier then. I would go for interviews, and directors would look at these sultry, exotic looks, hear this clipped accent and think the two don't go together. So they would give me a foreign accent.

When my body and face were perfect as far as youth, I wasn't happy.

This idea that being youthful is the only thing that's beautiful or attractive simply isn't true.

I'm always trying new creams and products to keep my skin youthful, hydrated, and protected from the sun.

I really believe in less is more in terms of makeup. I try not to wear too much foundation. I like to see my skin coming through. I like to see my freckles. I just think that's the most youthful look.

Having a good brow can totally brighten your face and give you more of an expressive, youthful look!

Youthful beauty is a poor indicator of long-term appeal in a man.

In 1985, I saw a tape of myself where my eyes were puffy. I looked very tired and bedraggled and not as youthful as I would like to have been.

Yes, black is slimming, but it's not always youthful. The right tone of red, however, is flattering on all women.

Anyway, what makes people look youthful is the quality of their skin and I don't think you can change that.

I have freckles; I don't like covering up too much. I like things dewy and natural, and I think that having moisture in your skin is really beautiful and youthful - sometimes that's more important than coverage.

People say I look younger than the music I'm doing just because the songs are older. Hopefully I can keep my youthful look!

My young face keeps me in the running for youthful roles. If my face is going to look 22 then so should my body.

My mom didn't use face cream, like, nothing at all. She's got great skin and looks very youthful.