408 Appearance Quotes

Look at The Rock's competition! Look at him! It looks like a big monkey came down here, took a crap, and out came Mankind!

I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these?

Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

Men don't get smarter when they grow older. They just lose their hair.

You have no idea what a long-legged gal can do without doing anything.

We have observed for thirty centuries that a large nose is a sign on the door of our face that says 'Herein dwells a man who is intelligent, prudent, courteous, affable, noble-minded and generous'. A small nose is a cork on the bottle of the opposite vices.

Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.

The house of laughter makes a house of woe.

I've exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.

When you look like your passport photo, it's time to go home.

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.

The makeup is simply an extension of the personality and colors, clothing, makeup all express something.

Tits always look better in a pink sweater.

A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.

Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.

Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor's I've shook off old mortality.

Virtue is not always amiable.

A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.

There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way.

If I negate powdered wigs, I am still left with unpowdered wigs.

Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely.

Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable.

I have a better head of hair than Rick Perry; it's just not in a place I can show you.

My hair is grey, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears.

Who seems most hideous when adorned the most.

The man forget not, though in rags he lies, And know the mortal through a crown's disguise.

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money.

Cruel, but composed and bland, Dumb, inscrutable and grand, So Tiberius might have sat, Had Tiberius been a cat.

The wiser you get on the inside, the uglier you get on the outside. The world's great gurus have beautiful things to say but they generally look like shit.

Never had her eyes been so enormous, so dark, so deep: her whole being was transfigured by some subtle emanation.

He had a pale, round, expressionless face, almost Mongolian, and a completely inoffensive air. Nor in his early years did I ever hear him advocate the race theories of what he was to become the most notorious executive.

Being a well-dressed man is a career, and he who goes in for it has no time for anything else.

La vie habituelle fait l'ame, et l'ame fait la physionomie.

Rien n'est-il si discret qu'un jeune visage, parce que rien n'est plus immobile. La figure d'une jeune femme a le calme, le poli, la fraicheur de la surface d'un lac. La physionomie des femmes ne commence qu'a trente ans.

Inceptis gravibus plerumque et magna professis purpureus, late qui splendeat, unus et alter adsuitur pannus.

I knew this suit was going to be a problem when i went into the store and asked them 'will this make me look fat?' and they replied 'why shouldn't it, you are'

Jade: 'They look like dorks.' (When shown a picture of AFI from 1996)

Lax in their gaiters, laxer in their gait.

His complexion exceeding faire - he was so faire that they called him the Lady of Christ's College.

I'm back from Crete, a gorgeous golden brown. If you could see me I'm sure you would want to dance around me.

Little and hairy. But if [The New York Post] want to go with smart and stylish then hey, more power to them. Good luck.

I thought you and he were hand-in-glove.

I know there's been some debate about the DVD art. Just remember it's what's INside that counts, as I used to remind girls in high school constantly. CONSTANTLY - until I realized that I was empty inside. Empty and homely. Man, that's a rough combo.

'He's the most beautiful man who ever walked the earth ...' - Naomi Watts (People magazine, November 24, 2004)

'Jude Law is one of the most handsome men on the planet. He is a character actor struggling to get out of a beautiful body.' - Anthony Minghella [6]

'We are in a very vain, very appearance-conscious world nowadays. But, you won't get any answers. Wearing the right suit doesn't necessarily make you happy.' - on the importance of fashion.

'Because I'm a blonde, I don't have to think I talk like a baby and I never pay for drinks I never have to worry about gettin' a man If I keep this blonde, and I keep these tan!'

You came out of the night, Wearing a mask in white colour. My eyes were shining On the wine, and your aura.

You look like an angel, Sleeping it off at a station. Were you only passing through?

I want to be a Mrs. Kenny Rogers kind of woman. You know... the kind of lady he sings about: 'Oh Lady, I was just scum in the sewer until you came along and made me a man.' With hair that's light, but not really blonde, that would be too cheap. Instead, sort of a wheat-and-sunstreaked affair with not a lot of hairspray. A ninety-five dollar cut that looks like your hair just naturally grows out of your head like that. The kind of woman who always, no matter what, has that I-understand-and-am-knowing-without-being-threatening kind of always smile.

Damn, what a sorry-looking outfit. You boys don't look so crazy to me.

I don't mind women protesting, but why can't some cute ones do it?

Yeah, so I'm short. But wait'll you see me dance.

On se doit assemer en robes et en armes en tel maniere que li preudome de cest siecle ne dient que on en face trop, ne les joenes gens de cest siecle ne dient que on en face peu.

It is alarming and also nauseating to see Mr. Gandhi, a seditious middle temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well known in the east, striding half-naked up the steps of the viceregal palace, while he is still organizing and conducting a defiant campaign of civil disobedience, to parley on equal terms with the representative of the king-emperor.

I was working on this movie and the makeup artist was just so ugly! I just wanted to say 'Physician, heal thyself!' She looked exactly like Aaron Neville, and she was trying her hardest to make me look exactly like Aaron Neville. This one time she leaned into my face with the mascara wand almost touching my eye and she says...'Whass my name?'

This old fellow came up to me and asked, 'Excuse me, are you Japanese?' No, I'm Korean. 'Oh really, that's very interesting, because I was looking at you and I knew you were not Filipino. I have many Filipino friends and you do not look like them because you're very HUSKY!!' Is that supposed to be some kind of a compliment?! 'Oh no, it's not bad, you're very strong, very HUSKY!'

Blond hair and breasts, that's how I got started. I couldn't act. All I had was blond hair and a body men liked. The reason I got ahead is that I was lucky and met the right men.

Rene Levesque looks like a distressed seminarian.

The make-up sat on the surface of my skin like scrambled egg.

There was a white man sitting at the kitchen table, warming his hands by wrapping them around a hot cup of tea. He had kind of an oblong face, curly red hair piled on top, a close-cropped but dense red beard, shocking blue eyes that always looked wide open. He face was ruddy with the outdoors, and the way he was sitting there with that tea, he looked so calm, so centered, almost like he was in meditation. When I came in, he looked at me and smiled just a trace, without showing his teeth:'

She has flawless skin, perfect white teeth, a voluptuous body, ample height and lots of lush, brown hair. And then there are those cookbooks, which have become international best sellers. She has become enough of an icon stateside to be profiled last year in People and Vanity Fair.

We were stunned how petite she was in the flesh and she has the most beautiful skin. Not only that, she was nice, too. She arrived on time, no diva demands. She's gorgeous.

'I do not know whether behind appearances there lives and moves a secret essence superior to me. Nor do I ask; I do not care. I create phenomena in swarms, and paint with a full palette a gigantic and gaudy curtain before the abyss. Do not say, 'Draw the curtain that I may see the painting.' The curtain is the painting.

They were good eyes. Kind eyes. Weary, but well-meaning.

Am I really that stupid looking?

Skorzeny was a giant of a man with a chalk-line scar scribbled from the left temple to the corner of his mouth, above a massive chin.

For God's sake, sit down. You look like a Calvinist rector telling his flock about Hell.

Once, early in the morning, Beelzebub arose, With care his sweet person adorning, He put on his Sunday clothes.

All were fat; and well they might Be in admirable plight, For one by one, and two by two, He tossed them human hearts to chew.

Le feu qui semble eteint souvent dort sous la cendre.

Things are distinct not in their essence but in their appearance; in other words, in their relation to one to whom they appear. This is art, the truth of which is not in substance or logic, but in expression. Abstract truth may belong to science and metaphysics, but the world of reality belongs to art.

'I am but a draper in a room of wool, looking at the patterns, feeling like a fool. I'm going to take my fabric, stretch it to the seams, I want to find what's woven underneath these tailored dreams'

Are you kiddin'? I know I'm ugly. My mother breast-fed me through a straw.

I'm ugly I'm tellin' ya. My proctologist, he stuck his finger in my mouth.

My wife is ugly. She's so ugly that when you look up ugly in the dictionary, there's her picture.

He gets out of a coffin every day to go to work.

A glittering jewel of colossal ignorance.

A harmless, lovable little fuzz ball.

Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society.

My appearance still made people laugh, with that hearty jovial laugh so good for the health.

A mask of dirty old hairy leather, with two holes and a slit, it was too far gone for the old trick of please your honour and God reward you and pity upon me. It was disastrous.

Here closed in death th' attentive eyes That saw the manners in the face.

I fear thee, ancient Mariner! I fear thy skinny hand! And thou art long, and lank, and brown, As is the ribbed sea-sand.

Dear God, she was beautiful. Sharon was more beautiful as a teenager than she was in her twenties; in Europe people would turn around on the street just to look at her.

No man is esteemed for gay garments but by fools and women.

I got my driver's license photo taken out of focus on purpose. Now when I get pulled over the cop looks at it (moving it nearer and farther, trying to see it clearly)...and says, 'Here, you can go.'

I was cleaning out my closet and I found this old bathing suit I'd made out of sponges. I remember when I wore it to the pool. Then I left, and no one could go swimming until I came back.