Ugly Quotations

My husband was just OK looking. I was in labor and I said to him, 'What if she's ugly? You're ugly.

Children tease each other because you're short or you're tall or you're a redhead or because you're ugly or because you're smart or because you're dumb or all kinds of differences and as parents we have to deal with that and strengthen our children to be comfortable with themselves and also to show empathy and acceptance towards others.

There are no makeovers in my books. The ugly duckling does not become a beautiful swan. She becomes a confident duck able to take charge of her own life and problems.

The world's as ugly as sin, And almost as delightful.

Thank you, people who say 'Wow, you're really photogenic,' for not saying what you really mean: 'Wow, you're really ugly in person.'

I was called fat and ugly in the press almost my entire life. I understand that being judged by others comes with the territory, but it broke my heart and ruined my self-esteem.

I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.

I've known attractive airheads, and I've known ugly idiots.

I also used these realistic sounds in a psychological way. With The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, I used animal sounds - as you say, the coyote sound - so the sound of the animal became the main theme of the movie.

Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason.

I'm cool with the way I look, I'm not an ugly dog, but I don't see myself as a stud or anything.

My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.

Our culture encourages women to nurture men, making it predictable that many experience a seductive empathy for abusive men, as well as the misguided hope that love can obliterate an ugly past.

What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque.

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.

Hollywood can be an ugly place and it can do ugly things to you.

New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else

I've seen the good, the bad, and the ugly. Lived it and I'm still here to talk about it and help someone else if I can.

I found my love when I was 17-years-old and my love is one hundred percent honest. We've never had any ugly, rocky things to overcome.

I don't think I'm ugly, but I never thought I was that special.

Art is a critical component in a well-rounded education. Art is the level playing field - no matter how rich or poor, tall or short, pretty or ugly to the bone, if you can draw, you can find personal fulfillment and build self-confidence. Art is the highest achievement of mankind.

Having love in your heart doesn't count for much if what comes out of your mouth is ugly and bigoted.

When I was very young, I wanted to be a girl. I was jealous that girls got to be princesses and wear skirts. It tormented me. When I was 6, I even heard that you could change your sex, and I was very intrigued until the moment I realized that if I changed into a girl, I would be an ugly girl, and this is the last thing I wanted to be.

'You're Ugly Too' isn't a comedy, but it has a lightness of touch with a hard edge. But it's essentially a warm story tinged with a bit of melancholy in the great Irish tradition. I'm very proud of that film.

Things can turn ugly so quickly in the music business, especially if you have an unexpected success.

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.

Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.

Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.

When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.

We believe widespread adoption of home solar will significantly improve life in cities by phasing out polluting coal plants, eliminating miles of ugly new transmission lines, and ensuring cleaner, healthier lives.

In America, there's a programme called 'The Swan.' They take 12 ugly people and call them 'ugly ducklings.' They spend six months and have everything done - plastic surgery, teeth, everything. And then they have this moment where their family is brought in, and they are revealed. It's scary.

When I was 11, I had an Ugly Sister birthday party. All my idea. Most girls want to be a fairy or a princess, but there I am with beauty spots and fur and fluorescent pink kiss-curls.

Given the choice between someone saying I was handsome in a role or ugly but good, I know which I'd choose.

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.

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.

Anytime someone says your God is ugly and you release your God and join their God, there is no hope for your freedom until you once more believe in your own concept of the 'deity.'

That's nice, to be compared to Joanna Lumley. She played my mother once in 'Ella Enchanted.' I was one of the ugly sisters, and she was the stepmother, so that was great. I'll take that comparison, thank you.

Not after the big bust in '92, there's no big drug lifestyle anymore. I can't talk about it. Pretty ugly.

I was one of the first of the uglies. Rock Hudson and Tab Hunter... were very pretty fellows, and that was the trend. I was one of the first of the uglies to get lucky.

Words have life and must be cared for. If they are stolen for ugly uses or careless slang or false promotion work, they need to be brought back to their original meaning - back to their roots.

I'm not interested in being one of those comedians who wants to look good and be this 'cool' funny person. I don't care how weird or ugly I look.

What was a really private and nice relationship was judged and made to be something ugly.

My doctor told me that I'm old, fat, and ugly, but none of those things is going to kill me immediately.

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.

He's so ugly he should have to wear an oxygen mask.

I always saw myself as really ugly. My father even told me I was ugly because I would shave my head and look like a boy.

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.

The reason I'm in San Diego is not because I want distance from South Africa but because I want proximity to the people I love. But I don't envy growing up in America. As ugly as aspects of it were, my biggest blessing was to be born a South African.

Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful.

My swing is no uglier than Arnold Palmer's, and it's the same ugly swing every time.

Lot of ugly funny dudes end up with some pretty gorgeous women. Women are much deeper than us in choosing a mate - they see in the long term.

You think your friends have good taste in fashion, until they ask you to wear an ugly bridesmaid dress!

When people tap into this politics of resentment, it usually ends ugly.

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

And rather than hide that, I would rather put that out on the radio and let someone see the full range of emotions. If you're going to be strong on the radio, you got to let it all out, even the ugly stuff. And you can't apologize for it.

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.

In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.

With the media, I could be quick and ugly and critical. I tend to wear my emotions on my sleeve.

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature

People tell me all the time when they meet me, in comedy, they say 'You have that type like Sofia Vergara; you can be like her.' She's beautiful, but she can be ugly, too; she can make ugly faces. She doesn't care. She's very outgoing.

The nativism behind the push to repeal or amend the Fourteenth is ugly and obvious.

I hate to lose, and I do whatever I can to win, and if it is ugly, it is ugly.

It takes a long time to make me beautiful, but it goes fast to make me ugly.

When I was 10, 11, 12 years old, I would pretend to be on the radio. I bought a mixer and these big, ugly headphones and I would literally broadcast the cassette tapes in my bedroom.

There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.

I am a woman like any other and ugly things happen to me like any other women.

I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones.

I am ugly, but what I do have is charm.

An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful.

Things are beautiful or ugly only in time and space. The new man's vision being liberated from these two factors, all is unified in one unique beauty.

Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.

My first job in Brazil was actually to develop a way to improve the readability of billboards, and based on speed, angle of approach and actually blocks of text. It was very - actually, it was a very good study, and got me a job in an ad agency. And they also decided that I had to - to give me a very ugly Plexiglas trophy for it.

I don't want to play stinking, beer-ridden clubs. It depresses me even thinking about that. I really hate it when you're finished with a show and you're in your dressing room with that stink of beer and sweaty girls. It brings back an ugly picture for me. I'd hate to have to do that again.

I've seen many of my contemporaries become superstars, and the way fame and fortune starts to really affect the way they treat other people, and I think it's ugly.

I understand business and understand the ugly face of baseball, which is the business part of baseball.

Can't do it, simply cause underneath 'em is too ugly.

At its best, fiction cultivates fantasy and compassion; at its worst, memoir provokes schadenfreude and prurience. The ugly truth, I fear, is that many people are drawn to sensational memoirs for the same reason they watch 'The Apprentice': they like to witness actual suffering, before-your-very-eyes humiliation.

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

You should take some responsibility for the way you present yourself. But you should not be hung up on your looks, whether you are ugly or handsome, because it isn't an achievement.

We both can be the most beautiful and benevolent creatures on the planet, but then there's another side that can be as harsh and as ugly as the darkest thing you could imagine seeing.

My number one style requirement is to have fun getting dressed. Nothing is too old, expensive, cheap, cute or ugly for me.

I don't speak particularly well. That's one of the consequences of being extremely ugly.

I stayed away from mirrors when I was younger and I didn't like having my picture taken. I was tall and had braces and felt ugly.

When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed.

I think it's a little irresponsible for women who choose surgery to then say they can portray the average woman on the street, because if the average woman can't afford those treatments, then she's going to say, 'I'm 53 and I don't look like that,' and start thinking she's ugly or inadequate.

I can recall, as a young adult, running through the rain forest at the Forest Reserve, at times feeling a sense of fear when I felt I was in danger. In danger of confronting an ugly snake or a coral snake, which represented the greatest fear of someone in a rural area when you traverse the forest.

I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.

Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

When you have a big, ugly problem, there's never going to be a neat, elegant solution that is totally painless or without a cost.

As someone who worships music, I believe it can never be ugly!

My mother brought me magicians and witches, because I was very ugly, really revolting. So she thought somebody had put a spell on me - this is the truth - so she made me drink some horrible terrifying potions, for year.

I will be so glad to take the picture and pose and look good for the picture. But when you catch me while I'm looking real sideways and the picture's ugly as hell, I don't want you to have the picture like that!

More men than women like 'Strangers With Candy'. Pretty girls don't like the show. They don't like to see an ugly lady.

If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.

Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly

I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation....

Here we are in the 70's when everything really is horrible and it really stinks. The mass media, everything on television everything everywhere is just rotten. You know it's just really boring and really evil, ugly and worse.

You look back and you remember the good, the bad and the ugly

At 11, 12, I thought I was clumsy, ugly, a mess, an unappealing person, but I did have the gift of the gab. I had the school record at Haberdashers for consecutive detentions for simply speaking out of turn.