Quotes About Sophistication

Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.

I think that it's more important for an economist to be wise and sophisticated in scientific method than it is for a physicist because with controlled laboratory experiments possible, they practically guide you; you couldn't go astray. Whereas in economics, by dogma and misunderstanding, you can go very sadly astray.

I know as a critic I'm required to have a well-armored heart. I must be a cynical wise guy to show my great sophistication. No pushover, me.

Phoebe Wolkind Ephron cracked wise like Dorothy Parker and looked like Katharine Hepburn.

When I first started, as long as you were a bit brown, you could play any kind of ethnic anything. Now it's much more localised and specific. I feel like a wise old woman looking back on the evolution of how much more sophisticated audiences are.

I wish I could be elegant.

In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.

When doing family entertainment, you don't actually worry about kids. You know what you can't do. But in terms of sensibility and sophistication and wit and ambition, aim for your own taste level, and kids will - if they're interested in the subject matter - be glad that you did.

Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

A statement necklace glams up any outfit without feeling like too much.

I witnessed the transformation of Melania from gold plate into twenty-four karat gold. I believed she had the heart to match.

I'm no prude. I like a witty innuendo, too.

The fashionable woman is sexy, witty, and dry-cleaned.

Stephen Sondheim is calculus for actors. The words are witty and brilliant and profound but complicated.

There is still a lot to be said for the well-made, witty, clever, three-act comedy.

What's that one that people seem to like so much? 'Fleabag.' I watched that and it was that sort of Oxbridge 'Oh, I'm so clever and witty, aren't I?' I don't like that stuff. But then I don't like 'Mrs Brown's Boys' either. I like things that are clever but hide it.

There is nothing better than an attractive woman who doesn't act attractive.

The Gucci woman can be the equestrian woman, the woman in the suit, the woman in the flowy bohemian dress, or the couture woman.

I like the collarbone, a very clean collarbone. I think there's something also very delicate and balletic about that part of a woman's body, and I'm not really a cleavage person, but I do like a back or a shoulder; I think there's something very alluring about backless dresses.

I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.

In a Balenciaga you were the only woman in the room - no other woman existed.

I think audiences can deal with these mature themes.

I think critics tend to think that comedy is freakin' math. Like, this is the Pythagorean Theorem. They're not sophisticated enough to know that comedy is fluid, that it evolves, and these organic evolutions are what you have to embrace.