"I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine."
Read quote
8 likes
Makeup quotes
Makeup
835 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Makeup
Browse quotes that often appear alongside makeup — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Makeup quotes (page 4 of 42)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"Emotional makeup is more important than technical skill"
Read quote
8 likes
"She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog."
Read quote
8 likes
"Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd was the first person in rock I had seen with makeup on. He wore black nail polish and lots of mascara and black eye shadow, and he was so mysterious. It was this androgynous thing I found absolutely fascinating."
Read quote
7 likes
"It was never a marketing tool. People say that, but I dress this way for the same reasons I did when I first started doing it. It still comes from a serious place inside of me. I get up in the morning, and I think I just look better a certain way I do my makeup. I want to shine, I want to glitter. I'm not getting up thinking, "Oh, this'll get 'em." And I'm not doing it to make a statement. I'm just doing it to look like Dolly - the Dolly that I know and the Dolly that you know."
Read quote
7 likes
"Personalized beauty is about each woman being able to create her own makeup routine that complements her coloring and style."
Read quote
7 likes
"It's all or nothing with my makeup. If I get dressed up, I'll go to an extreme. I'll wear foundation, bright blue or bright red lipstick with one of my weird purple wigs."
Read quote
7 likes
"Unless mankind redesigns itself by changing our DNA through altering our genetic makeup, computer-genera ted robots will take over our world."
Read quote
7 likes
"Does anybody have a cigarette? I'm looking forward to that first smoke. I've been looking forward to [it] for about 30 years."
Read quote
7 likes
"I just kind of opened up and said, 'I feel like a rag doll. I have hair and makeup people coming to my house every day and putting me in new, uncomfortable, weird dresses and expensive shoes, and I just shut down and raise my arms up for them to get the dress on, and pout my lips when they need to put the lipstick on.'"
Read quote
7 likes
"I mean, look, I wear makeup in films. I don't wear makeup in real life. It's just part of the gig, that's all."
Read quote
6 likes
"Basketball players want contact to get a foul called. Slaps on the wrist and bumps on the shoulder are big time to them, and they don't like that. In football, you get that all the time. The whole mental makeup is different."
Read quote
6 likes
"I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though."
Read quote
6 likes
"I don't make an effort to be sloppy. I just don't consider a perfect hairdo and a perfect face to be beautiful. If I had my way I'd dress myself and do my own makeup for magazine shoots."
Read quote
6 likes
"I love that men like to look at women, that they love sports, that they need to know the inner workings of mechanical objects. I love the whole makeup of men - that they never mature and are always just boys."
Read quote
6 likes
"This is the essence for every human being to realize that who they are, essentially, is far more than the physical body and is far more than the mental body, the psychological makeup, the psychological "me" body. Who they are is far deeper than that."
Read quote
5 likes
"I would eat 300 calories a day - a lot of Jell-O and no-sugar everything, of course. I was doing Pilates, weight-training, circuit training; over lunch I would run on a treadmill in my dressing room with a fan on my face so I wouldn't sweat my makeup off."
Read quote
5 likes
"Think of all the women you know who will not allow themselves to be seen without makeup. I often wonder how they feel about themselves at night when they are climbing into bed with intimate partners. Are they overwhelmed with secret shame that someone sees them as they really are? Or do they sleep with rage that who they really are can be celebrated or cared for only in secret?"
Read quote
5 likes
"It gets on my nerves when women take too much time on makeup. You would think after a lifetime they would have the process down to less than 45 minutes!"
Read quote
5 likes
"You look for stars. You look for the makeup of artists who can have long lasting careers and who could be headliners."
Read quote
5 likes