Quotes About Vanity

The insecure are as self-absorbed as the boastful. The former worry that everyone is watching them. The latter worry that everyone is not.

There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.

I would say I don't like people who are really into themselves or are very materialistic. Just always talking themselves up. Not being real is the pet peeve. Be true to yourself.

I hate doing photo shoots.

It's so boring to put on make-up and change clothes five times in a row for one photo shoot.

Certainly, people feel awkward when they have their photograph taken. They want to see it, but they don't want to see it.

Some actors don't mind it. Those who are pretty. They think it's nice to be looked at because they are nice to look at. I appreciate that. I'm very happy to salute that aspiration. But I don't like the way I look so I don't like being photographed. I become defensive.

Every time I get photographed, it's the legs. So I've insured them for a lot, for £5 million each. Is that enough?

Some people will stop a scene and demand a mirror and look at themselves and check which angles they're being photographed from. I don't do that.

I guess that's what I was: a set of abs. And they lit the abs and shot the abs and sent the abs on their way. The photographer didn't look at my face once. I was humiliated.

I always take photos from my left side because my jaw line is stronger.

I never like photos of myself in the beginning. I live with them for three months, put them in a drawer, take them out and look again. I hate the way I look, but of course it's really not that bad.

They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take your picture and I thought, How nice!

I get embarrassed when I go to an actor or actress's home and it's filled with pictures of them.

Believe me, I don't like being photographed. I don't like myself in pictures. Actually, I do sometimes.

I didn't like the way I looked in pictures - when I saw myself on a digital camera, I was like, 'Eesh.'

My pictures are airbrushed.

We celebrities are desperate pigs.

I love being an actor so much because, as a person, I would be conscious about pimples and weight because I love vanity, and I own up to it. I have been like that since I was a child, but where my characters are concerned, they are such confident women that I love celebrating my flaws on screen.

You know, I've been to some superstars' houses, and I've been really disgusted when I see their platinum discs hanging in the toilet. They're just there on the walls glaring at you when you're trying to be occupied with other things.

To see someone 70 years old with dyed black hair, you're like, 'Hmmm, I dunno. Is that a wrinkled teenager? What is that?' So at some point, I'm going to have to stop doing this. It's gonna look ridiculous. I don't wanna look like Elvis Presley at 60 years old.

I've seen other actresses refuse to be ugly. Even if the story line calls for it or the character calls for it, they just can't go there for vanity's sake, and they don't want to be perceived in an ugly way. I was like, 'Nah, I wanna go for this.'

When I do appearances and stuff and I just wanna see the new pictures, I Google myself.

I'm frightened of my innate vanity. I mean: the suits lined with scarves? Even I know the warning signs. I could quite easily end up in a tiny Playboy mansion, all on my own.