Stacey Napp understands the ugly side of divorce – which is often the side that involves money. In fact, she understands it so well that in 2008 she started a business, Balance Point Divorce Funding, which invests in divorce and probate litigation, helping clients cover costs in exchange for a share of the winnings.
I don’t speak particularly well. That’s one of the consequences of being extremely ugly.
I couldn’t tell you a good, bad or ugly pilot just from reading it, but I can tell you a character I want to play.
Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.
A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.
Without an ugly America to loathe, there is no automatic esteem to receive. Thus liberalism’s unrelenting current of anti-Americanism.
I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn’t write anything without hope in it.
Everything I was told should be my greatest insecurities and weaknesses, everything that I’ve been labeled – short, nerdy, skinny, weak, impulsive, ugly, tomboy, poor, rebel, loud, freak, crazy – turned out to be my greatest strengths. I didn’t become successful in spite of them. I became successful because of them.
I think I have great responsibility, and when I do my music, when I try to relate to my audience, I just try to do it in an honest fashion, you know, just try to be as earnest as possible and sometime it may be self-effacing. Sometimes it may be finger-pointing. Sometimes it may be beautiful, and sometime it may be ugly.
I think I can be beautiful with all the little stuff done, and I can be ugly. A lot of attractive actresses can’t be ugly.
If you were supposed to be a drag queen, and that’s what you wanted to do, you’d be doing it already, you wouldn’t be in my DMs asking me how to do so. When I started I was ugly, but I didn’t think I was ugly. You have to not dream it, but be it – that’s it.
I’ve always been pretty independent, no matter what situation: good, bad, ugly, happy, sad. I dig deep, and I get over it.
We have sacrificed our children on the altar of fear and power and all the other ugly human sins.
Tanushree Dutta is the real pig and not me. She is the sewer and not me. Just look at her face, she has become like a fat ugly buffalo.
‘Restaurant Man’ is kind of the story, an unabridged story of what happened in my life, the good bad and ugly. Some people might glean some life lessons. It is honest, not written as a press release.
For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.
My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.
When I was in S Club Juniors, I didn’t know if someone thought I was ugly or fat or didn’t like my hair.
Our civilizations have evolved. The solutions we can find for the things that keep us somewhat primitive and base and ugly in our desires can improve and become more sophisticated. Sometimes there’s a disconnect between that. My car can drive, but we can’t get rid of violence.
I was so terrified before an audience that I would break out in these ugly red hives, and my lips would quiver at the sight of a word or a song.
Playing a plainer role means everything is dependent on the credentials of the actor, not the fact that they are as pretty as Julia Roberts. People start to look at their talent rather than their appearance. And playing the ugly part often means less time in the make-up chair, which is a great benefit on set.
When there are no women on the tour it can get awful and ugly – constant horrible jokes and gross behaviour. It needs to be leavened with a feminine presence.
My hair was long – in my high school year book, I looked like an ugly David Cassidy.
The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
He’s so ugly. When you walked by him, your pants wrinkle. He made fly balls curve foul.
My own efforts at peacemaking have been easy – in fact, rather enjoyable: CND marches, demos, protest meetings in Trafalgar and Grosvenor Squares, and visits to the women at Greenham, especially the glorious day in 1983 when thousands of us embraced the base and pinned beautiful pictures and objects to the ugly wire.
Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.
A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
Even the word ‘cancer’ is ugly, scary, burdensome – a roadblock for a conversation before it even starts. Who wants to go there? Much of the time, I’d rather not bring it up if I don’t have to – and I’m the one with the disease!
This is the thing I have with awards: If awards would make your movie more pretty, I would really get super excited about it. But your movie’s done. You get awards, you don’t get awards… They don’t make your movie more ugly or pretty.
‘Ugly Betty’ taught me everything about fashion.
I wanted to be an actor from a young age, but actually becoming one and seen the ugly side of the world does feel different and sometimes unwelcome. There are shallow, vapid, untalented people zombieing the streets of Hollywood, adding decadence and immorality to an already extravagant business.
To take the ugly language out of ‘Ragtime’ is to sanitize it, and that does it a great disservice.
Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.
When something happens – good, bad or ugly – you find a way to be able to do your part for your community. How do you better the lives of Indigenous people, how do you give back to the land, how do you stay connected? All of this is the same question.
I hate to lose, and I do whatever I can to win, and if it is ugly, it is ugly.
I’ve picked up a lot of fans from doing ‘Ugly Betty’: a lot of teenagers who didn’t even know I had a singing career.
My shareholders expect me to make the most profit. That’s the ugly, dirty truth.
I never considered myself a supermodel or anything like that. I mean, I don’t think I’m ugly. I have good days and bad days, and I like when I’m fit and lean and all of those things that any woman likes, but it’s not the eye of the hurricane for me.
I wish I was less good-looking and more unpopular. Then I could get into politics and use my pent-up resentment about being ugly and unpopular to systematically destroy the country.
Gradually, we fell in love with camper-vanning. It’s a strange business to begin with – rather like driving a large, rather flimsy cardboard box. It’s ugly, the suspension’s appalling, you rattle around like pebbles in a tin, and you can’t hear yourself speak above the engine.
I think, when I was younger, I believed in – and yearned for – conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.
A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.
People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
On any given day, there’s always something I’d rather be doing than facing the ugly, racist underbelly of America.
I’ve always thought I’m pretty ugly.
Rock ‘n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.
If you want to compete for the Premier League title, you need to win ugly sometimes.
Of course, people told me, ‘Mikey, you will never be an actor. You don’t have the look. You’re ugly.’
Psychologically, I’ll always be a fat girl because that’s what my character is built on. I always got a buzz out of people telling me I was ugly. I went out of my way to un-beautify myself. I didn’t want anyone’s approval.
To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.
For somebody in my neighborhood to aspire or revere a person from the upper class, that is the most ugly and pathetic behavior you could exhibit.
Anyone who has ever been an ugly adolescent – and we are legion – knows that the feeling of being unlovely and unlovable never goes away; it is always there, lurking just beneath the surface.
The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly, or mean.
There has certainly been ugly, right-wing hatred targeting Barack Obama.
My sisters said, Why do you make those faces? You make yourself so ugly.
I understand business and understand the ugly face of baseball, which is the business part of baseball.
Being called ugly and fat and disgusting to look at from the time I could barely understand what the words meant has scarred me so deep inside that I have learned to hunt, stalk, claim, own and defend my own loveliness.
I don’t like to show off; if I have to save a ball in an ugly way, fine.
If I see a phrase that strikes me as ugly, I’ll delete it. Or, if I find a way to say something a bit more freshly than it was expressed originally, I’ll do it. Ultimately, you want to try to leave behind the best possible paragraph or sentence.
