Quotes About Vanity

I have nothing against cosmetic procedures, but I don't want my face lasered. Also, people are naive about how much you can do with make-up and lighting, and I've learned from the best.

I don't like to tell my age. Not because of vanity, but because in 10 years when I look 37, producers will think I'm too old for some parts.

Childhood doesn't have to be perfect, and children don't have to be beautiful. From a bit of grit may grow a pearl, and if pearl production doesn't materialise, the outcome will still be preferable to the shallowness of vanity.

The profession is rife with fear about your age, about your validly, longevity, appearance. It's vanity, and it's hard to sort of avoid all those things; they come at you as an actor.

It's a business you go into because you're an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.

I think players maybe now want to look more pretty than anything else. What I feel disappointed about when I watch games is too many players think of themselves. Still good players, maybe better than we were, but looking too much at themselves.

Anyone can look good if you have 500-flash bulbs exploding in your face.

When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want to entertain people; I had too much vanity to be an entertainer. I think that some layers of vanity came off.

You can tell when someone has had a facelift and I haven't had a facelift, and I look like I haven't had a facelift.

A bad facelift is like a bad toupee.

Hollywood is driven by beautiful faces. Always has been.

I don't want to just fall back on the fact that I was on the cover of 'GQ' for being an actor.

As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself.

I think television does tease out a certain vanity in everybody when you look at yourself and you go, 'Oh Christ.' Maybe that's why my intros get shorter and shorter.

Everybody dresses like a teenager. Everybody dyes their hair. Everybody is concerned about a smooth face.

Because I've got veneers, I am always checking to make sure I haven't got food in my teeth.

I dye my hair, and I use teeth whitening strips. Unless I burnt myself or damaged my skin, I wouldn't have cosmetic surgery.

Maybe it's the hair. Maybe it's the teeth. Maybe it's the intellect. No, it's the hair.

When I was younger I smashed my teeth and since I was 12 I've been saying: 'I want veneers! I want veneers!'

The only sin is pride.

If Jonny Rokeby turned up here, yes, the press would be fighting tooth and nail to get a shot of him. For fuck's sake. You're not that famous. Get the fuck over yourself.

Not for the first time, he consoled himself that his hair looked the same whether brushed or unbrushed.

There's pride and then there's stupidity.

he talked until their food arrived, littering his chat with references to 'ninety k' and 'a quarter of a mill', and every sentence was angled, like a mirror, to show him in the best possible light: his cleverness, his quick thinking, his besting of slower, stupider yet more senior colleagues...