I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turn into confident ducks.
Women who start out as ugly ducklings don't become beautiful swans. What they mainly become is confident ducks. They take charge of their lives.
Politics is an ugly and thankless role.
I'm trying to get at something a little transcendent between humans. But at the same time, there's all that baggage: What's beautiful about humans is what's balanced by what's kind of ugly and petty and depressing.
A lot of times, when mother-son or mother-daughter relationships have been put on screen, they tend to trickle towards ugly, and I don't find that totally realistic for the wide swath of us, and it's also not that fun to watch.
I'm the ugly sister. I'm the fat one. I'm the transvestite. I have had those mean things said about me at least twice a day for the last five years. It's horrible, you know? But I can brush that stuff off.
The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.
I thought last week's game was ugly and this was even uglier.
I used to get a lot of rubber ducks on my birthdays as presents because, you know, I make rubber ducks. But then I get the ugliest ones with a neck, ugly colors, and devil ears. I don't like those.
What I hate is nasty, ugly people.
Politics is show business for ugly people.
Politics is just show business for ugly people.
But I always like to play ugly people who think they're pretty.
You don't normally see incredibly ugly people who've gone missing and it becomes a sensation.
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.
There is that great thing of D.C. being Hollywood for ugly people. There's very distinct crossover behaviors.
Washington is Hollywood for ugly people.
As long as ugly people are not on TV, you should only ever have interesting people on TV.
Feeling 'ugly' or 'unattractive' seeps into your life like poison, and it affects everything. Feeling worthless does the same. We internalise these limitations, and it takes an internal revolution to get rid of them.
The ugly truth is it's the spineless parents who parade their undisciplined children around like royalty that make people dislike kids.
