Rosemarie DeWitt Quotes

I'm not saying, "I don't condone plastic surgery." But if you do it, then do it well, make sure you come out looking like yourself. You're comfortable being put under a knife and being disemboweled? Great!

I didn't belong when I was in high school. Now people are trying to buy lips.

It's always sad to me when certain people are excluded from being considered beautiful... because of someone else's expectation. That bothers me.

I can always tell when people have had plastic surgery.

I used to want to be tall, and then I thought, 'If I were tall, then people would say I was pretty and not cute.' And then I realized that there are worse things than being called cute.

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 want to be the only American actress who doesn't do any plastic surgery or anything. I think older faces are great.

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

You can tell when someone has had a facelift and I haven't had a facelift, and I look like I haven't had a facelift.

I'm no natural beauty. If I'm gonna have any looks at all, I'm gonna have to create them.

There's no great shame in having your nose fixed.

The main criticism that I get is, 'Aren't you just conforming to a patriarchal standard of beauty?' Well, this is just the body I was given. I didn't do anything to it - it's just my body. But even if I had altered it, that would be fine, too.

I wouldn't consider cosmetic surgery.

It bothered me that women were taught they can't be beautiful just being themselves - it filled me with rage.

I think of makeup as more like a design, decoration, or jewelry. I mean, it's literally paint; it's art. I don't prefer to use it as concealing anything because it influences the illusion of standardized perfection.

I'm the only actress in Hollywood who didn't pay to have these lips.

Because I'm the only performer who comes out and says I've had plastic surgery, I've become the plastic surgery poster girl, which is hilarious, because everybody has done it and they all deny it. They stand there, like the Bride of Frankenstein, they've all got stitches, and they all say, 'I've done nothing.' I talk about it.

Pretty people aren't as accepted as other people. It comes with all these stigmas.

There is no such thing as an ugly woman.

Also, chubby people can never truly pull off ethereal the same way skinny people can never be jolly.

Dear to girls' hearts is their own beauty.

Aging in women is 'unbeautiful' since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be broken.

Women get scrutinized all the time for the way they look. So if I can learn to deal with that, then I do believe I can learn to deal with people's criticisms of my film choices.

When I was a model, actually, for a little while, my friend that I worked with a lot, she had horrible self-esteem too. We decided that the exact moment when we actually thought we were attractive, we wouldn't be anymore. We would just, like, miss it.

When asked her view of cosmetic surgery, Carmen Dell'Orefice replies, '”That's a very polite way of asking me, I'm sure, ‘Have you had a facelift?' Well, if you had the ceiling falling down in your living room, would you not go and have a repair?