Nora Ephron Quotes

In Hollywood, no one is happy with who they are. When they're young, they want to look older. When they're older, they're getting botox shot in their face to look younger.

Beauty lasts five minutes. Maybe longer if you have a good plastic surgeon.

We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.

Ours is decidedly not an age of Abrahams, Jacobs, or of youthful Elazars proud to be regarded as men of seventy. On the contrary, it is one in which the external signs of aging are avoided at all costs, youth is worshipped, and immortality is sought not in children but in Botox.

I find it interesting that 16-year-olds are having plastic surgery. People in their 40s used to think, 'I'm aging, I have to do something about it.' Now children are deciding they don't like the way they look.

I don't plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet.

L. A. is crazy. The women all look the same now. That thing with the cheeks. Like Madonna. Who do they think they're fooling? It doesn't make them look young. You end up looking like a freak.

The wheels of Hollywood grind very slowly so I'm going to have some collagen or some sort of plastic surgery.

I hope I never become that person who is all about getting Botox.

I don't want to be younger, I just want to look it.

People don't want to see wrinkles, because if they see wrinkles in actors then they have to face that they have wrinkles, too. They'd rather see perfection up there. And so then you get rocket scientists who are 22 years old.

I see women in their 30s getting plastic surgery, pulling this up and tucking that back. It's like a slippery slope - once you start you pull one thing one way and then you think, 'Oh my God, I've got to do the other side.'

In this business actors who have Botox or surgery make you very aware of age. It's awful.

'Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science, people have become crazy with trying to move their face around. It's bizarre.

I remember seeing some little wrinkles in my early 30s and thinking they were interesting. But you know the horror of it is that the screen image has to be perfect.

We're all getting plastic surgery. Come on, this is the game here, and HDTV exaggerates all the features. Yeah, I'm proud of it, because we're all doing it. Nobody's talking about it.

Plastic surgery is like a big elephant sitting in the Hollywood living room.

Thank God for Botox.

People are really interested in the concept of eternal youth in this plastic-surgery culture.

I definitely believe in plastic surgery. I don't want to be an old hag. There's no fun in that.

I know some actresses who used to be older than me who are now younger than me - I don't know how they do it.

I think when you're in the public eye, you feel a pressure to stay younger looking.

I've done little bits of Botox for a long time. If I wasn't on TV, I probably wouldn't.

The irony is that the more we fight age, the more it shows. Paint on a 50-year-old face brings to mind a Gilbert and Sullivan comic figure. Smooth the cheeks, and suddenly the ear lobes and hands look out of place. Do we run around in October, painting the gold leaves green?

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.