I’ve colored my hair so many times, and nobody tells you the damage it’s going to do! I went blonde and lost all my baby hairs. I’m not coloring it anymore. Never again.
The truth we are teaching is that every contribution in the history of the planet came from blonde people. It’s not true, and it’s destructive, and people are getting killed long term as a result. People don’t believe that we deserve it.
Ditzy dumb blonde? I can be ditzy. I can be.
I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens.
I’m lucky because I had blonde hair for a while for this TV show I was doing – they had me dye my hair blonde – and every audition I was going out for was bleach blonde. The mean girl, the pretty girlfriend, and the dumb cheerleader.
The brunette phase just came about because I was fed up with this ‘Blonde Angel Image’. The rebel in me demanded a new color.
I had a bunch of different hair colors. I was experimenting to see what I liked. It started off brown, then I did red, then I got really, really blonde!
Actually just recently I came up with that idea, watching the movie ‘Legally Blonde’ and I was like, ‘Cool, that’s something I want to do.’
If I ever write a book, it will be called ‘Bottle Blonde.’
When I first met my agent, I said, If something comes up and it fits my age range and personality, I would like you to send me up for it, even if it specifies blonde or brunette.
I had kids make fun of me because not only was I blonde but also Polish.
I’d always wanted to be an action heroine. That’s a chick dream, getting to wear a leather bodysuit and be blonde and kick ass. But, what really attracted me to ‘Dredd’ was the script. It was fantastic! It was about people and characters, and not just about explosions and fighting.
The recognition factor is so much higher when I’m a redhead, so when I’m a blonde I can pass under the radar a lot more easily.
When someone calls me a blogger, I think, ‘That’s one of the things I used to do.’ I’m a creative director for my shoe brand; I’m the editor-in-chief of ‘The Blonde Salad,’ which is a website and not just a blog anymore.
I have fans that write to me and say, ‘Why do you have those blonde streaks in the front of your hair?’ And I’m like, ‘It’s not blonde. It’s grey.’
I remember when I first saw Whoopi Goldberg doing standup, and she was wearing a sheet on her head, basically pretending to be this little white girl with long luxurious blonde hair. Everyone can relate to that. It’s an oral history of black women’s lives through laughter.
I was incredibly nervous about doing a period drama. I thought that to play period, you had to be English-looking and blonde and very well spoken, and have gone to drama school.
There couldn’t possibly be a more label-driven industry than acting, seeing as every audition comes with a character breakdown: ‘Beautiful, sassy, Latina, 20s’; ‘African American, urban, pretty, early 30s’; ‘Caucasian, blonde, modern girl next door’. Every role has a label; every casting is for something specific.
I’m sorry, but I can’t make a movie with the blonde from ‘ER’ who is starring in every single bad romantic comedy.
The funny thing is, I was never purposely blonde. I just got highlights, and then you get highlights over highlights, and then it looks like you’re blonde.
I think the best thing I’ve written is a story called ‘The Boxer and the Blonde.’ It’s a piece about Billy Conn, the white would-be heavyweight champion of the world, who lived in Pittsburgh.
I’m blonde and a model, so you can imagine the constant damage my hair receives.
When I was blonde I was perceived as an innocent and sweet young girl.
My hair had been dyed blonde for ‘Dredd.’ After ‘Dredd,’ I was really fried because of the blonde hair dye, and so I cut it into a bob with bangs and that’s how it was during ‘Being Flynn.’
I like to go super blonde early in the spring because the sun’s out and it helps keep that tone.
I once died my hair blonde, and it looked like an orangey-red carrot top. It was the ’80s, and I was trying to look like George Michael. At the time, the ladies loved it, and I loved it too!
If you are blonde with a little nose people always think you are gentle and not very bright.
Most people in Iceland are blonde and blue-eyed. I was nicknamed ‘China girl’ in school ‘cos they thought I looked Asian.
People can underestimate you when you’re blonde and from Essex, but it’s easy to shut that down. I used to get dumb blonde jokes when I was 18, but when I replied that I was studying maths at Oxford, it usually shut them up.
My all-time low is 62 at Bel-Air, but it was in match play, and I had two putts given to me from four feet. I’m playing only about once or twice a month. Full-time job. Full-time father. Full-time blonde.
People keep asking me if I am having more fun, being blonde, but I always have fun! Whether I’m blonde, redhead, or brunette! I always have fun.
I hate being a blonde.
I’ve built my wardrobe color palette around red, so I’m happy with it, but I do get pangs when I see beautiful brunettes. I’ve already been blue, green, black, and blonde.
I studied voice for three months to get rid of my English accent. I changed my hair to blonde. I knew I could be sexy if I had to.
I like the French kind of style because it’s simple and minimal. I have blonde hair and big lips, and when I do too much I think sometimes I don’t look very well, you know?
I love playing a smart person and not that blonde deadpan.
I have dark blonde hair – and it needs help. I went darker, when I was 18, in one of those ‘I’m 18, and I can do what I want’ moments. It’s been that way ever since.
I have had brown hair and bangs since I was 2. One year I dyed it blonde, which felt so weird.
Because I was the blonde, I was promoted as the video vixen.
I remember vividly one distinct memory of arriving in Hong Kong and being the only blonde haired girl in this sea of international students, and thinking, ‘Oh, my God. There’s no hiding here.’
Being attracted to my own sex was as much part of who I was as being short or blonde or drawn to the library, but I was made to grow up feeling ‘other.’ Most books, films – even advertisements – didn’t reflect how I felt, and I often watched the world from the outside.
When I heard Kerastase was starting a natural line, I was like, ‘Oh my god, that’s so me.’ They loved that I’m a natural blonde. A lot of hair companies want color, so I was very lucky.
I’m naturally a mousy blonde, so I dye my hair, and my eyebrows would disappear if I didn’t get through at least a pencil a month.
A lot of my family are redheads, but I’m a dark blonde.
I’m not a natural blonde.
There are writers out there who say they’re writing a second series, and then you pick it up and it feels exactly the same, only the lead character is blonde instead of brunette.
As a fair skinned blonde, I disappeared into the background. I’ve always been a loner, so I suppose dyeing my hair red was a way to say, ‘I’m here, I exist, I’m a human being and you can’t just push me aside.’
Unfortunately the work that I do and the way the public perceives me is that I’m the hot, tall blonde. Of course I play it up.
The 1980s was the era of the blonde cheerleader.
Appearing in ‘Legally Blonde’ has helped me find my inner girl, although at the beginning the director was constantly telling me off for sitting like a boy, with my legs apart, while wearing a cocktail dress and heels!
When I was a kid I had this funny blonde hair and everyone called me ‘Chick’ because I looked like Tweety Bird.
I’ve always been blonde.
My role in ‘Legally Blonde’ was really rewarding, because I had so much fun working on the movie. I’ve had really rewarding experiences on tiny low budget films that you’ll never see but where I had a cool time creating characters as well. I love almost all of the characters I’ve played.
My long, blonde hair has been my trademark ever since I started modelling in the Seventies, when I was scouted sunbathing in St Tropez.
When I first came into WWE, I got asked to change my hair to blonde just because I was a brand new girl and the Bella Twins had really dark hair and they were Mexican-Italian too so WWE didn’t want me to get lost in the mix and start thinking there was a triplet in the mix.
The ancient Greek philosophers were blonde and blue-eyed and, even then, talked about how their race was mixed with others and how this affected their society negatively. When there were no more natural blondes and no more blue eyes in Greece, they incidentally stopped producing great philosophers.
I don’t get jobs in films by auditioning. I’m not blonde. You can’t place me in movies the way you can with certain actors. It’s very difficult for my agents.
I didn’t think I’d do movies in Los Angeles. I never thought it would happen. In fact, it was not a fantasy. For me, I said, ‘If ever I go there, they will ask me to do ‘Legally Blonde 5.’
I personally prefer being a blonde, but whatever it takes for the character.
If you walk into any magazine store, I guarantee that nine out of 10 covers will feature white, blonde, blue-eyed, slim women because that’s still the ideal of beauty. When a black or Asian figure shows up in a fashion magazine, she’s the exception, not the rule.
