I think that one of the things that drives me in telling stories, and art in general, is finding the beautiful in a big mass of ugly.
My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles.
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
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.
I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.
I'm an ambitious person, and Harvard makes me feel successful, just having gotten in here. That's the ugly side of why I'm proud of being at Harvard Law School. Another reason is because there's a spirit of serious intellectual endeavor here.
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.
What I want to bring back to superheroes with this project is a sense of play. Things have gotten so dreary. The heroes have gotten so ugly that even their muscles have muscles.
I notice if I'm too fat or if I'm too ugly or there's skin hanging or whatever. When my clothes start not fitting, I get really self-conscious about what I eat.
An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.
God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.
I believe that the people, instead of pretty lies, should be told the truth, no matter how ugly it may be. What can we do, destiny hasn't been kind to us; but, with the help of God, we will prevail.
A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.
Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.
I came from a small town in Pennsylvania - where 'style' was whatever was new at the Gap. Being on 'Ugly Betty' at such a crucial time in my life sparked my love for the industry.
The truth was I felt ugly growing up. I only really started feeling comfortable in myself when I was 40.
We've been playing ugly. Without all of our bodies, we've been kicking it all over the shop, but fortunately we've been able to make the big buckets and rely on our defense for once.
'Ugly Betty' taught me everything about fashion.
I just think religion is something... It could be a beautiful thing for the individual, but when it becomes organized, that's when religion starts taking a kind of ugly turn to me.
I remember being described often as 'the horrifically ugly Jack McCall,' and I kept thinking it took me about 10 seconds to get like that.
Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.
Cancer taught me to stop saving things for a special occasion. Every day is special. You don't have to get cancer to start living life to the fullest. My post-cancer philosophy? No wasted time. No ugly clothes. No boring movies.
My swing is no uglier than Arnold Palmer's, and it's the same ugly swing every time.
The way you give love is the most profoundly human part of you. When people say it's ugly or a perversion or an abomination, they're attacking the center of your being.
Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.
What was a really private and nice relationship was judged and made to be something ugly.
Because something or someone looks or acts differently from us does not necessarily mean that it is ugly or bad.
Washington is Hollywood for ugly people.
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.
There was a taboo as a result of the Holocaust that people respected that anti-Semitism was an ugly thing and should be avoided. Now that taboo seems to have been broken with impunity.
There's only so many times you can read how ugly you are and how much people hate you.
I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.
One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly.
I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones.
Can't do it, simply cause underneath 'em is too ugly.
