Imelda Staunton Quotes

I don't want to come across as a pretty looking girl. Because it is very easy - wear good clothes, wear good make-up, and you'll look good. I know my abilities.

Each woman needs to know herself and think that the clothes are here to make her more beautiful, because the person is more important than the clothes.

Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way that you use it. It doesn't define you as a person. Rather, it's an asset to be used judiciously and with an understanding of how it is just a small part of who you are.

I must be very clear in one thing... Being a pageant girl is not who I am or what defines me.

I've always felt so different from how I look. I meet so many pretty girls who are like, 'Here I am! Don't you want me because I look good?' That concept is so weird to me. I want to know, 'What else do you have going on?'

I simply did not want my face to be my talent.

Fashion's important to me, but beauty fades. All that stuff is fun while it lasts, but anything can happen tomorrow. You've got to have so much more about you than the way you look or your clothes.

You don't have to look like a warrior in every role.

For a long time, I didn't have a balance in terms of my worth and my market value; I was just a very talented person who hadn't done any work that truly demonstrated my talent.

I am an actor, and not a clothes hanger. I am more than just my clothes.

The truth is, I don't find my value in my body or my weight. It's really more about who I am and what I can offer as a human being to the people in my life and the people in the world.

I think I have a great voice, but it's not special enough to be remembered. But what's special about me is much more than just my voice.

I think we are moving to that place where we are being celebrated for our character, our inside, our wit. I think that's the direction we should go because that's what defines you as a person, not a number on a scale.

If I'm not comfortable in my own skin or confident in who I am, then I'm going to pick parts based on how people are going to view them, not based on what I find challenging or entertaining.

I feel it is important not to get overly obsessed and overly carried away with just the physical aspect. There is more to beauty than just the physical appearance. You are also a complete person, and a woman should have an identity beyond just the way she looks.

I've learnt that you are who you are, and in the end, if you don't believe it, then no one will.

We all have our imperfections. But I'm human, and you know, it's important to concentrate on other qualities besides outer beauty.

We are more than the work we perform. In fact, I'd say that our work is a mere representation of who we are underneath.

Diane Keaton, I've worked with her as a director, and I think she's a really intelligent woman. I like the fact that the things that make her feel beautiful are more than just her face; it's who she is, and I live by that same theory. There are things I want to achieve in my life intellectually that make me feel beautiful.

I'm not that beautiful, and I don't want to be a pop star.

I mean, no one asks beauty secrets of me, or 'What size do you wear?' or 'Who's your couturier?' They ask me about really deep things and I love that.

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.

I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.

I don't really have a career plan. There's no joy for me to just be a personality in my work, and I feel that that's so much of what's out there.

Maybe you just don't see your own beauty.