“Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think that's the beauty of art: to question and to ask, to understand the deeper meaning after two or three or four listenings.”
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“I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here.”
“My theory of characterization is basically this: Put some dirt on a hero, and put some sunshine on the villain, one brush stroke of beauty on the villain.”
“I think the beauty looks I most regret are those I was persuaded into.”
“Physical beauty isn't so impressive to me.”
“I love glamour and artificial beauty. I love the idea of artifice and dressing up and makeup and hair.”
“My beauty icons are women whose images are self-created.”
“I really believe that beauty comes from health - sensible eating and exercise.”
“I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.”
“Beauty and the Beast seemed like it all was really brown. The whole thing was just so brown and orange and yellow, like Burger King or something. I don't think I would have liked Beauty and the Beast at any age.”
“All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.”
“Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the soul. I think that speech is so beautiful, and so telling and so true.”
“The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space.”
“I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.”
“Boxing is my real passion. I can go to ballet, theatre, movies, or other sporting events... and nothing is like the fights to me. I'm excited by the visual beauty of it. A boxer can look so spectacular by doing a good job.”
“I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.”
“It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?”
“Never once does 'Snow White' herself look in the mirror so she isn't aware of her beauty or what apparently that does to people. It's really just the queen and the prince that talk about it.”
“It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first.”
“I didn't grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny - those are the things I got feedback on.”
“Even if you play perfectly, a fault of your opponent's can destroy the entire beauty of the game.”
“When I speak of the beauty of a game of chess, then naturally this is subjective. Beauty can be found in a very technical, mathematical game for example. That is the beauty of clarity.”
“My mama told me in college, 'I love you, and you're God's child, but natural beauty will only take you so far.'”
“I have learned that acting is not about beauty.”