Quotes About Glamour

Actresses are so spoilt - we have someone who does our hair for us on set, so we don't know how to do it ourselves in real life. I know how to wash my hair and brush my teeth, but that's about it!

He glittered when he walked.

I only did it,' I said, 'now this is going to be the truth, Teddy, I only did it because it seemed to be the glamorous thing to do at the time. It was my ideal of glamour.

There is somebody's moneypower working behind anybody being projected publicly as starpower.

The mix of soft-focus glamour, Mills and Boon romance and the inevitable feel-good ending is here, but what marks these films is an authentic core. Genuine, unaffected moments, long absent from 70mm movie content, are back.

In India you clawed your way through the day, through dirt and glamour and people who seemed to strip the skin off your bones when they dealt with you, leaving every nerve raw. Here it was all so much more courteous even at its worst, hushed, gentler. They spoke to you with a respect that wrapped you in cotton wool. You didn't feel that every man coveted your property or your self-respect or was otherwise desperately straining to find ways to humble you.

I am comfortable doing glamorous roles and have no qualms going nude if the character demands it.

Playing quarterback is a glamorous job. It's awesome. It's everything I dreamed it would be. But after a while, it loses its glamour. Somewhere along those 15 years, it becomes a job. Especially at the end, it became work. Game day was awesome, but all the rest of it was work.

Sometimes a busted queen is more entertaining than a polished queen.

I'm a performing queen.

I've never wanted to be an actress. I came into the industry to be a filmmaker, but let us say fate had other plans for me. I don't want to be the next glamour queen.

I mean, I'm a drag queen, any excuse to wear a costume means it's going to be a good time.

I very much treat my stage persona of Jinkx as a character I've created. Some drag artists do a look-based glamour act, and when they talk they're mostly just being themselves. In my case it's not Jinkx the drag queen, it's Jerrick Hoffer as Jinkx Monsoon.

People say to me, 'What do you think your mother would think about this new world with Instagram?' And I pause and I just say, 'Well, she really was the queen of Instagram because she was more photographed than anyone else.'

When I was crowned the college queen, I got a lot of modeling offers and I did a fair amount of work in Delhi.

If you put drag in front of anything, it inherently makes it more fun. So mashing up films with cult followings with drag queens is a natural fit for a good time.

Drag queens are not pathetic creatures. Drag queens are fabulous and fun.

A bright lipstick is a quick way to glam up my look.

In Hollywood, you grow up quick.

I think women have always been trying to look healthy. The makeup artists just teach you the quick cheats.

Even if you throw your hair up in a quick topknot or ponytail, you can add instant polish by wearing a headband or bejeweled barrette.

I always wear some make-up, even on quiet days when I am not doing so much with my time. I like to start using Dolce & Gabbana Perfect Finish Creamy Foundation as a base, as it's lighter than air and doesn't make me feel 'caked.'

I was a pin-up girl. I did it for 30 years and, quite frankly, it gets a bit boring.

I based my lips on Jessica Rabbit.