Makeup Quotes

• 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.

  

  David Bowie
  • Black
  • Eye
  • Shadow

• When I go home, I am a slug. I want to do everything completely opposite of what I do on the red carpet. I like to take off all my makeup, put on a t-shirt, be completely unassuming and just do stuff with my husband and my daughter.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Home
  • Husband
  • Daughter

• When I'm not working, I'm definitely a no-makeup girl. The most I ever do is a little tinted moisturizer and a little mascara and blush.

  

  Morena Baccarin
  • Girl
  • Makeup
  • Mascara

• I don't want to be known as the Aerosmith chick, but it's fun to put on the boots and makeup and act like a tough girl.

  

  Alicia Silverstone
  • Fun
  • Girl
  • Makeup

• My fingertips are my favorite makeup brush! I especially like to apply my eye shadow with them, get it nice and smudgy. All my favorite makeup artists used their fingers to apply and their hand as a palette.

  

  Josie Maran
  • Makeup
  • Fingers
  • Brush

• Built into human makeup is a longing for a 'more' that the world of everyday experience cannot requite.

  

  Huston Smith
  • Experience
  • Makeup

• There are women in makeup and hair and wardrobe, but not in camera, not in sound, you know, and not in special effects. It's all men.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Men
  • Makeup
  • Special

• Makeup can make a woman look more beautiful at every age.

  

  Francois Nars
  • Age
  • Beautiful
  • Makeup

• I always felt sorry for humans, spending so much time in front of the mirror. Fixing their hair, makeup, and clothes, mostly to impress others. Did they really see themselves in the mirror? Was it what they wanted to see? Did it make them feel good or bad? And mostly I wondered if they based their self-image on their reflected one.

  

  Ellen Schreiber
  • Humans
  • Mirror
  • Sorry

• I love natural beauty, and I think it's your best look, but I think makeup as an artist is so transformative.

  

  Marina and the Diamonds
  • Makeup

• My main disappointment in not appearing in the 'Face to Face' video , at the time, would be… did you see how much makeup the boys were allowed to wear!

  

  Jon Klein Siouxsie and the Banshees
  • Makeup
  • Disappointment
  • Video

• Every day, put a little makeup on, put on some nice underwear, and you'll keep your husband.

  

  Miranda Kerr
  • Husband
  • Makeup
  • Underwear

• 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.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Morning

• In the make-up trailer there are always lots of trashy magazines and it's always quite pleasant to go through them in the morning. That's when I realized, "Oh my, it's quite nasty". There was a lot of pressure on Daniel Craig. He was quite nervous and paranoid, especially in the Bahamas on the beach, lots of paparazzi. Even on me in France - nasty things! Like I was going to get fired, I was so bad.

  

  Eva Green
  • Pressure
  • Magazines
  • Paranoid

• Really, personally, makeup is cool to wear less and light on the eye and just go colorful on the lips.

  

  Dinah Jane Fifth Harmony
  • Eye
  • Makeup
  • Lips

• It's fun to be a woman. It's fun to flirt and wear makeup and have boobs.

  

  Eva Mendes
  • Fun
  • Woman
  • Boobs

• All reporters have a stripe of irreverence in their mental makeup. It usually keeps them from turning into toadies, a danger for those who associate, even in an adversarial way, with the rich and powerful.

  

  Carolyn Hart
  • Powerful
  • Rich
  • Danger

• And it's absolutely great, when everything comes together with the hair, the dresses and the makeup and the models and the music and the presentation. I can't get over these girls. They look wonderful. But by the time we finish with them, they look like they came from another planet. And I just think it's great.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Thinking
  • Together
  • Girl

• I know the pleasure you get from making your films. The intense involvement in every aspect: the acting, the camera, the colors, the costumes, even the hair and makeup. Editing is thrilling. Everything to do with films is absorbing - everything but the money part, the business. But I'm deeply glad I've had that experience.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Film
  • Acting
  • Pleasure

• I've spent so much time in that makeup that I'm now unrecognizable. The business doesn't know who I am.

  

  Michael Dorn
  • Business
  • Makeup
  • Spent

• Your skin is your largest organ, and it wants to breathe. There are so many times, like Fashion Week, when you [need to] think about all the stuff your skin and body have absorbed through makeup and products and all this stuff.

  

  Erin Wasson
  • Thinking
  • Fashion
  • Week

• I have the utmost admiration for makeup artists. It's truly magical what they can accomplish with their materials. The face and the body are really their canvas.

  

  Richard Phillips
  • Makeup
  • Artists
  • Magical

• She wore no make-up, and her small, tense face looked chronically embarrassed, as if it got attached by mistake to the wrong person.

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Mistake
  • Makeup
  • Embarrassed

• When I'm not working I just like to be comfortable: I love black, nothing tight, no heels, no make-up - it's nice to be able to breathe!

  

  Eva Green
  • Working
  • I Love
  • Breathe

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