Tom Robbins Quotes

Blonds look angelic, but can (oh, happy!) be fleshy as well.

Gentlemen prefer blondes.

Blonde is dumb comedy, red hair is smart, sexy comedy.

With the red hair, you get the white skin; it's a package deal. The cons are that you never look particularly attractive on the beach. The pros are in a softly lit room, you look pretty.

I think redheads have more fun than blondes.

Film is not a woman's medium. If you weren't the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you.

It kind of irritates me that I'm seen as this pretty face. People also say I'm too thin. The truth is pretty people aren't as accepted as other people. It comes with all these stigmas.

But I've lost parts because of my looks. I auditioned to star with Richard Dreyfuss in 'The Buddy System.' The producers said no one would believe he would leave me for another woman. They just couldn't see me with him.

Directors are not worried about casting beautiful women, but they are not sure that they want to cast great-looking men. My looks have prevented people from seeing my work.

I really like brunettes.

I think as a blonde person with make-up on, you're automatically the punchline to the joke.

It's unfair but true: youth is attractive, curvy women are attractive, outliers who look a bit different to everybody else are attractive.

It ought to be a criminal offence for women to dye their hair. Especially red. What the devil do women do that sort of thing for?

It is also true that his hair had a reddish tinge and, as everybody knows, no one with red hair can ever truly be said to be handsome.

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

Boys like girls who look like...girls.

I have short hair. It doesn't make me more unattractive than a woman or my sisters that have more longer hair and a bit lighter.

They're all good-looking men - I can't think of a male presenter who isn't a good-looking bloke - but, you know, they're not judged by their suits and ties.

People only go by looks. If you have big breasts it doesn't mean that you are dumb.

Height isn't something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you have to put it to use, playing basketball, for example, or observing the weather up there. If you are a girl, they feel a particular need to point your height out to you, as if you might not have noticed.

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

I think that part of everybody's success is due to their looks, but it just works in different ways. If you're whatever society calls attractive, then people say that you got ahead because of your looks-especially if you're a woman. If you're whatever society says is not attractive, then they say you got ahead because you're compensating, you couldn't get a man or whatever. So everybody pays the same penalty for the fact that women are assessed for their outsides rather than for what's in our heads and our hearts.

Along with the 97 percent of women who can see, I have never been a fan of redheaded men.

Ugly women may be naturally quite as capricious as pretty ones; but as they are never petted and spoiled, and as no allowances are made for them, they soon find themselves obliged either to suppress their whims or to hide them.

I've always felt that feminism was just an excuse for ugly women to march.