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Quotes About Glamour

I always thought I should be treated like a star.
~ Madonna
You put high heels on and you change.
~ Manolo Blahnik
We try to discover in things, endeared to us on that account, the spiritual glamour which we ourselves have cast upon them; we are disillusioned, and learn that they are in themselves barren and devoid of the charm which they owed, in our minds, to the association of certain ideas; sometimes we mobilise all our spiritual forces in a glittering array so as to influence and subjugate other human beings who, as we very well know, are situated outside ourselves, where we can never reach them.
~ Marcel Proust
Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older.
~ Jamie Lee Curtis
I always wanted to be a movie star. I thought it meant being famous and having breakfast in bed. I didn't know you had to be up at 4:00 a.m.
~ June Allyson
The only way to be turned off to being famous is to be famous.
~ Jesse Eisenberg
Have I ever been to a party with a ton of famous people in it? Yes, several times, so I guess that's a Hollywood lifestyle.
~ Michael Keaton
Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.
~ Grace Jones
I like to maintain a certain sense of fantasy. At home, do I have the full hair and makeup? No. But I might have the nice dress on.
~ Jennifer Lopez
Hollywood was a fantasy world in more ways than one.
~ Maureen O'Sullivan
I don't want to see pictures of Hollywood stars in their dressing gowns taking out the rubbish. It ruins the fantasy.
~ Sarah Brightman
I think glamour is a female thing. I don't think that's a male fantasy. I think glamour's a female fantasy.
~ Anna Biller
I don't need it but I still take the cars and the girls. Went from bout gettin' the money to about gettin' the world.
~ Unknown
Being pretty isnt a gift, its an honor!
~ Unknown
In Guermantes, the narrator, admitted to the Duchesse's society after he has been cured of his infatuation with her, tends to record what he sees and hears, to note the disparity between glamour seen from a distance and the triviality it masks when encountered at close quarters.
~ Marcel Proust
Los Angeles: city that was nothing but a slot machine dispensing plastic toys.
~ Marge Piercy
All day you have been on my mind A seagull perched on an old wharf piling by the steely grip of its claws shrieking when any other comes too near waiting for fish or what the tide brings shaking out its long white wings like laundry. All day you have been on my mind a thrift store glamour hat that doesn't fit with a perky veil scratching my cheek with a feather hanging down like a broken tail.
~ Marge Piercy
The fashion and beauty complex has so many ways to enchant and maim.
~ Margo Jefferson
no fame is actually worth much now-a-days,—because it is not classic fame, strong in reposeful old-world dignity,—it is blatant noisy notoriety merely.
~ Marie Corelli
The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.
~ Ben Bradlee
It's my first presenting role so I'll be nervous, but it's going to be great fun. I can't wait to sample the food and meet the celebrities. Hopefully I can inject some of my own glamour.
~ Nicole Appleton
I don't feel the need for unusual or glamorous foods like caviar, and I tend more towards ordinary, satisfying food.
~ George Harrison
A kiss on the hand may be quite continental, But Diamonds are a girl's best friend.
~ Leo Robin
I think relationships are very difficult. It's very easy to get swept away with excitement, glamour, and passion. I think the trick is to look for friendship rather than passion.
~ Jane Green