Quotes About Vanity

Our fingernails match our toenails, match our lipstick match our rouge...The habit of applying warpaint outlasts the battle.

Her beauty is a symptom of her disorder, of her soullessness.

My hair looks awful while wet, I will say that.

I remember not wanting to play football because I didn't want to get my hair wet.

There are people out there who hate me and who say I'm arrogant, vain, and whatever. That's all part of my success. I am made to be the best.

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.

I'm not so vain as to believe that my involvement changes anything whatsoever.

It's human nature when you first make your big fortune to want to show off a bit. I don't begrudge that whatsoever.

How many big American films do you see where the heroine has no vanity whatsoever?

Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.

Whenever I see a mirror, I just look at myself, or when I see my own reflection, I quickly take a look; I won't lie about that. But when I am in front of the camera, it's just the character, not me.

I used to be very vain about my thumbs. I have fat thumbs. If there's a movie where you see me on the phone, it's not my hands.

Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.

Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

I have a bit of pride, which is always my downfall.

Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one.

There's only one prima donna in my pictures, and that's me!

I primarily have had my career in comedy, and that is something that I have never been too concerned about because I know there is really no room for vanity in comedy. Comedy comes from pain and it is a lot easier to empathize with somebody who is out of shape.

I'm not obsessed by looks. I think you can become a prisoner of your own image.

I am indeed completely nuts, but that doesn't mean I don't care about how I look. Sometimes, I admit, I will privilege appearance over comfort.

Prizes are like butterflies, colorful butterflies that fly away. I don't believe in prizes much.