Quotes About Vanity

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

I believe there is a shallow side to every actor, who craves to be presented well.

I find it alarming that people are so convinced they're the best at anything - presenting, hairdressing, getting dressed.

Like the diminishing beauty returns for a facially paralyzed Botox addict, the more forcefully we attempt to stop the passage of time, the less available we are to the very moment we seek to preserve.

There was a moment when designers draped in ermine would be reading Proust, or pretending to.

I like being photographed without glasses. I don't want to be pretentious.

I used to be prettier than I am, but I think I look better now. I was a pretty boy. Particularly in my early movies. I don't like looking at them so much. There's a sort of pretty thing about me.

I was given a mask of myself by Frances Barber when we opened 'Julius Caesar.' I looked much younger and prettier. Wearing it was certainly cheaper than Botox.

They say De La Hoya is pretty boy. I am prettier.

I always assume I look better than I actually do. I'll feel pretty good about myself when I leave the house, then I'll see a picture and think, 'Crap, I had no idea that's what I was looking like.'

There's a danger in Hollywood of becoming self-obsessed.

Actors have these delicate appendages called Egos.

I tried Botox once and I looked demented.

Depending on who it is, but I can't stand men who brag about themselves, and all they do all day is talk about themselves.

We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.

I'd like not to have these great puffy lobes on my ears - I'd like them to taper in.

An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.

There's a lot of us idiot actors that get tattoos and they cover them with makeup when you do a film.

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.

If people buy my books for vanity, I consider it a tax on idiocy.

The best team I played in was the Brazilian one in 2002; we felt that we could always score. It was a team without any vanity - or individuals.

Described by his biographer as an "overweight, rheumatic, vain, pompous, gluttonous inebriate," he had run through several fortunes totaling almost £100,000 with his spendthrift ways and aristocratic pretensions, including expenditures for a heavily mortgaged, thousand-acre New Jersey estate with piazzas, a deer park, painted drawing rooms, a wardrobe holding thirty-one coats and fifty-eight vests, and carriages embossed with the coat of arms he claimed as his patrimony.

hubris. It means extreme confidence or arrogance to the point that one loses touch with reality and overestimates one's abilities.

human beings are very narcissistic, they like to see themselves everywhere and be the foil for the rest of creation' (I, iv).