Unattainable Beauty Quotes

What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!

I don't have great thighs. I have very big breasts and a soft, fatty little tummy. And I've got back fat. People assume that I'm walking around in little spaghetti-strap dresses. It's insidious - Glam Jamie, the Perfect Jamie, the great figure, blah, blah, blah. And I don't want the unsuspecting 40-year-old women of the world to think that I've got it going on. It's such a fraud. And I'm the one perpetuating it.

O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear; Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. - Romeo -

No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.

I was never a good-looking bloke. Not by a long chalk.

We're in a world and a society where we're all striving for this perfection that doesn't exist.

Help me to withstand your beauty as it stands out of reach. Give me the capacity to forget ever having felt your touch.

For example, the face of Nicole Kidman in Queen of the Desert and she is the most beautiful goddess on screen that you can find anywhere around in the world. There's no imperfections, and yet I don't need to know every single pore in her face.

If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.

Beauty is aspirational - an ideal that mortals approach but seldom attain.

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

I reckon, if I was a girl, I'd fancy Johnny Depp - he's pretty cool. I wish I looked like Johnny Depp.

Have I dated a supermodel? Of course not. I'd look ridiculous.

There are people who expect me to look the way I do on-screen, where I have a great director of photography and fantastic lighting. I'm sorry to disappoint people, but I don't look like that all the time - no actress does.

I think women see me on the cover of magazines and think I never have a pimple or bags under my eyes. You have to realize that's after two hours of hair and makeup, plus retouching. Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.

Ladies, please remember that every single picture you see in a magazine is airbrushed...we do not look like that. Love yourself!

I do think it's important for young women to know that magazine covers are retouched. People don't really look like that.

Very fitted dresses look much better on TV, even though in reality they might be so tight that I can barely move in them.

Nobody smolders in real life.

In most movies, they show you somebody who is perfect looks-wise, and skills-wise, and the movie doesn't give you a choice.

I always say, 'Perfection is the flaw. It doesn't exist.' I saw something somewhere about 'porcelain pores' - you're not even allowed to have pores anymore!

We had terrible trouble finding a Buttercup because she had to be so beautiful. We had all kinds of pretty girls come in, but they weren't this staggering thing.

It's wrong for women to be constantly shy and embarrassed about their bodies. There are so many images of unattainable beauty that are so destructive. It's important to show how your body really is. As the cliche has it, beauty comes from within.

Thomas Jefferson—another gorgeous white boy who would not have been interested in me. This was my problem in a nutshell. To get some play in Charlottesville, you had to be either a Martha Jefferson or a Sally Hemings.

Would I show my body off if I was thinner? Probably not, because my body is mine. I think I remind everyone of themselves. I'm not saying everyone is my size, but it's relatable because I'm not perfect, and I think a lot of people are portrayed as perfect, unreachable and untouchable.