I was told my whole life, you’re fat, you’re ugly, you’re never going to amount to be anything.
Not after the big bust in ’92, there’s no big drug lifestyle anymore. I can’t talk about it. Pretty ugly.
Everyone thinks these are self-portraits but they aren’t meant to be. I just use myself as a model because I know I can push myself to extremes, make each shot as ugly or goofy or silly as possible.
I’ve been very fortunate to work for great people – so even when the political process gets ugly, I find inspiration in the people around me.
Another thing that’s pathetic is this rule that you have to look ugly to get respect as an actress. Jessica Lange had to make herself look really bad to prove that she had amazing talent.
Politics is show business for ugly people.
My hair’s naturally dirty-dishwater light brown. Ugly.
There are beautiful things about the sport of boxing and there are ugly things.
Too many people are afraid to talk about the issue of race. We should be willing to address it, and more importantly, when it rears its ugly head, we should be willing to take a stand and try to stomp it out, whatever the action may be at a particular time.
I once had someone say to me in an interview, ‘You are more ugly on the screen than in real life.’
My father was a professor of political science and also a young politician fighting for democracy in Kenya, and when things got ugly, he went into political exile in Mexico. Then I moved back to Kenya shortly after I turned one, and I grew up in Kenya.
As a woman, you feel that you shouldn’t want to better yourself against others. Ambition has become such an ugly word, hasn’t it?
Sometimes it feels very homophobic when people try to make their stance and their beliefs, and there’s been some very painful, ugly things that have been said… that not have always been in the essence of a heart for Christ.
I sort of fall in love with every character I do; you have to understand how they became what they’ve become, whether they’re the ugly kind or the very beautiful kinds of characters.
You can get a million comments about how beautiful you look and how awesome you are, but the one comment that says they hate you and you’re ugly is the one that sticks.
I thought, ‘Could I ever call myself ugly as a character?’ And it was like, ‘Yeah, I’d love to be able to say stuff like that.’
Getting back to the point, a guy like Jerry, he deals with the business, and he doesn’t see it as being evil or ugly, it’s what you have to do, and I mean I know there’s some really ugly parts to it and parts which drive me nuts, but not in the same way as music business.
Yeah, I know I’m ugly… I said to a bartender, ‘Make me a zombie.’ He said ‘God beat me to it.’
I keep this Hungarian wooden candlestick on the top of my refrigerator along with all my other candles. It’s big and ugly, especially next to all my pretty candles, and it doesn’t really make sense to have in my apartment.
I loved women who weren’t afraid to get ugly in their comedy.
Yeah, me and Q-Tip is cool outside of the business, but you know, within the business sometimes it can get ugly, you know what I mean?
Try something new when you feel great about yourself! Try something new because you have been dying to try it, thinking about it for weeks, and have had multiple discussions about it. Do not make brash decisions because you feel ugly and think this will be the answer.
Everybody is designing magic iPhone apps that do things that are really, really beautiful, but a really important thing about magic is that the gimmick has to be ugly.
One of the most incredible and important things about the theater is that we’re creating a safe space for all feelings, but especially, ugly feelings.
Politics isn’t a reality show or a gong show. It’s not show business for ugly people. It’s the arena where we define our common life in a rough and ready contest that has winners and losers.
Until there are no more hate crimes, no more vicious bullying and ugly slurs, whenever a person comes out – whether that person is a celebrity or a ‘nobody’ – it should be celebrated like the triumph of courage it is.
If you really think about it, if we begin to teach history exactly the way that it happened – good, bad, ugly, no matter what – I believe that we’re going to find that we are closer, more connected than we are apart.
The only description for Nolan in the script was that he’s a very bad dresser. I put on a red windbreaker and every other ugly, ill-fitting thing I could dig out. He was potentially written as a clean-cut nerd, but I wanted a darker spin.
Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.
Anytime a culture is in economic stress, ugly things start happening.
It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below.
This world is ugly, and it’s supposed to be, and it has to be in order for art to lead to grandness and beauty.
Having love in your heart doesn’t count for much if what comes out of your mouth is ugly and bigoted.
We vainly fancy ourselves above the ugly informing and paranoia of the right-wing McCarthy era, but in the 21st century, the Left has fashioned a mirror image.
When I was at Babbo, I was covered in scars and scabs and burned bits – melted hair, ribbed burns I got reaching across the top of a hot skillet… I sliced off the tip of my finger. I cleaved my forehead – a deep, ugly wound. Luckily, it regenerated.
I like to read away as much of the afternoon as possible, until real life rears its ugly head.
New York is an ugly city, a dirty city… But there is one thing about it. Once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.
Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
I grew up feeling like the ugly duckling, and things have not changed that much.
I see a lot of ugly rings on people and I think, eew, I wouldn’t want that. Some of them are so gaudy with so many different diamonds on them. I’d want something very clean.
The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.
Vanity is not having facelifts if you’re ugly. Those people who say: ‘Oh, I’d never dream of having anything done!’ That’s rude. It’s rude, to other people, to not try and look your best; to not try and stir things up, to not reinvent… or just invent… it’s one’s duty to not get stuffy.
When you mix fashion and politics, you get fascism. Politics have fashion, and it’s bad; fashion has politics, that are ugly.
As we see with Sunni and Shiite Muslims, interreligious fights are the most ugly.
People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.
I have never met an ugly woman.
I was never the best in my age group. I was like the Ugly Duckling because I am not beautiful to see but I always improved. That is my best skill.
All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
Unless you’re Gisele, you wake up some days and feel ugly. When that happens, I accept that I’m not perfect and it’s OK; I can start over again tomorrow.
If I let my brain follow its path unfettered, it would be kinda ugly.
I’ve learned through experience that you can’t ever predict what’s going to happen with any show. When I signed on to ‘Ugly Betty,’ I just prayed that I wouldn’t get fired after the pilot, and four years later, I was still doing it.
Our job as artists is to reflect the ills of society sometimes and to find a truth in that, and I think you can’t start the healing process until you recognize the truth and all of its ugly warts and all.
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
With Lady Antebellum, there’s always pressure. It’s hard for commerce not to rear its ugly head when you’re making decisions.
It takes a long time to make me beautiful, but it goes fast to make me ugly.
I’d like to see Dolph Ziggler get involved in a really intense, personal feud that will bring out another side of his personality. Because the personality is there, and the wrestling is there, so I’d like someone to come along and bring out his ugly side.
Candidates don’t want to be associated with poor people, people who have jobs or are ugly; they want to be associated with a certain middle class demographic, so as a result they leave those others out completely.
Things can turn ugly so quickly in the music business, especially if you have an unexpected success.
I think we forget that part of parenthood means having to face and reject or face and embrace a kind of animal capacity for unkindness. And if, when, parents do embrace that, it reveals something very ugly to oneself.
