Appearance Over Substance Quotes

In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, not by what you are. Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty.

On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

In my business, if you look good, no one is going to be checking up on whether you work out. So it's up to me.

Outward appearances mean everything.

In today's society, looking good and feeling good often trumps doing good and being good. And some people don't know the difference anymore.

Never lose your sense of the superficial.

[Italian men] are like show poodles. Sometimes they look so good I want to applaud.

I have thought for a long time that the way my clothes hang on me is more important than me inside them.

I'm not that shallow, asshole. I don't need money. It's way more important for them to be good-looking.

Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as 'suits'.

When I go to a bar, I don't go looking for a girl who knows the capital of Maine.

The fool multitude, that choose by show, not learning more than the fond eye doth teach.

If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.

The pretty girls get all the good stuff. Oh, God. So not true. I unlearned this after years of coaching beautiful clients. Yes, these lovelies get preferential treatment in most life scenarios, but there's a catch: While everyone's looking at them, virtually no one sees them.

The mere leader of fashion has no genuine claim to supremacy; at least, no abiding assurance of it. He has embroidered his title upon his waistcoat, and carries his worth in his watch chain; and, if he is allowed any real precedence for this it is almost a moral swindle,--a way of obtaining goods under false pretences.