'Handsome' means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattered - and have my parents to thank for it. Realistically, it doesn't hurt to be good-looking, especially in this business.

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.

Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.

Beauty is our weapon against nature by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.

The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don't see somebody's brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing.

We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.