Quotes About Sophistication

A burger is a black dress; a kebab is a Met Gala gown.

I like to play like that, with beauty and grace.

I can say that I have lived very gracefully.

I love 'Bringing Up Baby.' Anything that Katharine Hepburn's in. I'm committed to the Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn era of filmmaking.

Cary Grant is really the master of not taking himself so seriously.

I love the gray areas, but I like the gray areas as considered by bright, educated, courageous people.

I grew up with Bond.

Grey is one of my favorite colors.

I like grown up comedy.

It's like I somehow snuck a seat at the grown-up table. I'm just trying not to get caught.

I'm a Gucci girl all the way.

There was nothing financial, still less sordid, in her previsions: she cared about what were considered refinements, and not about the money that was to pay for them.

Happily she never attempted to joke, and this perhaps was the most decisive mark of her cleverness

A little quiet contempt contributes greatly to the elegance of life.

it is a curious fact that the more sophisticated we become the simpler grows our speech.

I've spent as much as 30 grand on a watch but it's not about flaunting my wealth. I don't have many extravagances but watches are my biggest one. I must have 30 of them now. I've been collecting since the age of nine, when I won a black TAG in a karting event.

Money doesn't buy elegance. You can take an inexpensive sheath, add a pretty scarf, gray shoes, and a wonderful bag, and it will always be elegant.

I've always been a big Cate Blanchett fan. Such a wonderful role model, the way she carries herself through her profession. She has so much grace to her, and so much intelligence. I've also always been a big Katharine Hepburn fan.

I was 10 when I left Kulm, N.D. I had a wonderful childhood there, out playing in the mud. We moved to California then, but I still went to Catholic school, didn't grow up very sophisticated or very liberal.

I just loved to see wonderfully dressed women, and I still do. That's all there is to it.

There's nothing better than a woman who has aged wonderfully.

The sexiest thing that a woman can do, wear, and say all fall under one word to me: subtlety. To be subtle in the things that she does and the things she says and the things she wears - I appreciate the details.

I think the word 'earnest' kind of has a negative connotation on some level. I think one of the things that's happened is that being cynical is somehow conflated with being sophisticated. I think that's problematic, to say the least.

I didn't have any sophistication. I didn't really have any great taste or anything like that. I was just a kid from Brooklyn. But what I learnt is the why, the how. The work ethic.