Rotimi Quotes

I find beauty very frightening because it's such an all consuming subject in our society.

Thanks to capitalism, the importance placed on beauty has never been so manipulated. We are the guinea pigs force-fed ads that tell us how pathetic we are: that we will never be loved, happy or valuable unless we have the body, the face, the hair, even the personality that will apparently be ours, if only we buy their products.

I have never understood models. I find it really hard to find beauty in that or to discover beauty because the beauty was so obvious.

Pageants are already ridiculous and sad, I think.

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

It's not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality.

I've never pretended to be a supermodel.

Here in L.A. the standard of beauty is kind of ridiculous. I want to be doing this when I'm in my fifties and sixties and this isn't what I'm going to look like.

America, you're sending girls a mixed message. On one hand, you're saying to have positive body image and love who we are; on the other, we're being marketed makeup and clothing that obviously turns us into someone different.

The trouble with glossy magazines is that they tend to be stuffed with articles about handbag designers - the sort of women who, with their perfectly styled lives, immaculate houses, and adoring partners, make you want to become a hermit.

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

I'm always suspicious of really beautiful women telling us we shouldn't be worried about beauty.

I think beauty comes from within, and society paints a ridiculous picture.

Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.

If you look at most beauty advertisements, you would think that makeup is only for beautiful women in their early twenties.

Something in the human psyche confuses beauty with the right to be loved. The briefest glance at human folly reveals that good looks and worthiness operate independently. Yet countless socializing forces, from Aunt Clara to the latest perfume ad, reinforce beliefs like 'If I were pretty enough, I would be loved.'

Fame was not at all what it was cracked up to be, as far as I was concerned.

Nothing that you want ever is what you think it is.

I don't really care what people tell children - when you believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy, one more fib won't hurt. But I am infuriated by the growing notion, posited in some touchy-feely quarters, that all women are, or can be, beautiful.

I'll never be like a Barbie girl, that's for sure.

I'm still figuring out why people would want to look at me. Maybe it's generic beauty, but it's weird to be valued for something I was born with.

I do not know at what moment in life, if ever, we realise that we are neither George Sands nor Juliets. Of course, if we are not beautiful, we recognise early that beauty is nothing.

Men are very tough, very critical of me. I think they expect you to basically just be a picture. They don't want to hear you speak.

I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.

The culprit has been TV. It creates the impression that we are all young, we are all healthy and we are all beautiful.