Top 1200 Ugly Duckling Quotes & Sayings - Page 19
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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.
You know I am done lying. Obscuring the truth is no longer something I have any interest in doing. I want it all to come out. The good, the bad, the ugly.
When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go. The past is over. It is time to ask what can we do right, not what did we do wrong. Forgive yourself and move on.
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.
As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of.... In literature, as in allthings, there is only the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false.
Not an ugly color, Nanny thought. Just not a human color.
It doesn't matter if you're big and tall or ugly or pretty. Deep inside, every actor wants to play Hamlet, at least I hope he does, because that's the craft.
But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.
The main thing is to be in the quarter-finals and it doesn't matter if you play beautiful football or if you're playing ugly football, you have to win.
I'm 100% real, even when what's real is ugly. I don't take any pride in covering up, hiding and lying.
Devotion as an act is vulgar. Devotion as a way of life is wonderful. If you are a great devotee, it is ugly. If you are devout, it is beautiful.
I don't want to see kids in America being scared because they're hearing people on television and the radio saying really ugly xenophobic and racist things.
Oh, I was an ugly kid. My old man took me to the zoo. They thanked him for returning me.
That slow smile again. I love that smile! DId I think he was ugly just now? No, his face is transformed.
I wanted to do a war movie, a western and an alien movie. In reality, there are a lot of ugly things happening in the world.
One thing that will make you quit smoking is sitting across from Keith Richards all night. I don't mind being ugly, but I sure don't want to look like that.
You can stay and die or you can walk your ugly ass back through that gate. It's your call, pal.
There's something ugly about a pretty boy who knows he's pretty and assumes everyone else know it too.
Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke.
Abraham Lincoln is resolute, honest, has the best interest of the nation at heart, and he's as ugly as homemade Sunday sin, so he is modest, too. I'd vote for that in an undead heartbeat.
I always played the ugly sister instead of Cinderella or the Wicked Witch. But those are the parts I love, and actually, to be a character actress, you have more longevity, hopefully.
As an actor, you can certainly, at any moment and at any time, discover 400 people who think you're stupid, fat and ugly.
Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown.
You know I am done lying. Obscuring the truth is no longer something I have any interest in doing. I want it all to come out. The good, the bad, the ugly.
Whenever someone calls me ugly I get super sad and hug them, because I know how tough life is for the visually impaired.
Indeed, there is no such thing as an altogether ugly woman — or altogether beautiful.
I prefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.
Actually, I think what is being shown as beauty in fashion magazines right now has become particularly ugly. This kind of straight, blonde very conservative.
Video games and YouTube.com are creatively booming, even though Web design, as demonstrated by the ugly clutter of most major news sites, is in the pits.
Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.
A green economy begins to replace some of the clunking and chugging of ugly machines with the wise effort of beautiful, skilled people. That means more jobs.
There's an ugly civil war side to revolutionary Boston that we don't often talk about and a lot of thuggish, vigilante behavior by groups like the Sons of Liberty.
My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too.
Even an ugly, abject photograph bears the recording of its making... my goal [is] to create dense objects, works in which many lines of thought converge.
We vainly fancy ourselves above the ugly informing and paranoia of the right-wing McCarthy era, but in the 21st century, the Left has fashioned a mirror image.
If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point.
One of the most incredible and important things about the theater is that we're creating a safe space for all feelings, but especially, ugly feelings.
Going to places like Tynecastle, where you're so close to the crowd, you get reminded how ugly you are and stuff like that!
If you're going to write about war, the ugly side is inevitable. Suffering and death are obviously part of war.
When you move to the city, you really notice how ugly people can be. And that's something you don't really have to deal with in the country. So I do miss that.
Now I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak.
We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.
... But then again, a person could turn ugly. Their actual look could change when their actions were repulsive.
I don't think I am beautiful. I can look good and I can look ugly.
I'm always looking for something that's real and that's got meat on it. I think it's artistic suicide if you're too vain, or if you're afraid to play ugly. I would never fall for that.
A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.
I'm 5 foot 7, and I've got pasty white skin. I don't think I'm ugly, don't get me wrong, but I'm not your classic lead man, Brad Pitt guy.
politics can be an ugly game, and in a national election the stakes get higher while the tactics get lower.
If you ever thought you were ugly, Los Angeles is the place to come and find out you were right.
I like women, especially beautiful ones. If they have a good face and figure, I would much prefer to watch them being murdered than an ugly girl or man.
The ego is that ugly little troll that lives underneath the bridge between your mind and your heart.
Why do you ask The Rock stupid questions? Why are you an ugly hermaphrodite? Nobody knows, Kevin Kelly.
'Ugly Betty' has opened my eyes to the world of fashion journalism - I'm looking forward to going to college for that. Until then, I don't know. Will I appear on 'Glee?'
I was called fat and ugly in the press almost my entire life. I understand that being judged by others comes with the territory, but it broke my heart and ruined my self-esteem.
At the end, what do you prefer? To play beautifully and stay in the same place, the round of 16, or play ugly and reach a semifinal?
I'm too homely for a prima donna and too ugly for a soubrette.
What's wrong with technology is that it's not connected in any real way with matters of the spirit and of the heart. And so it does blind, ugly things quite by accident and gets hated for that.
I don't read the comments anymore, unless they are moderated. Which is not to say censored, but I don't need to read someone saying, "You're ugly."
It is curious that nearly all the great fortunes are made by turning beautiful things into ugly ones. Making beauty out of ugliness is very ill-paid work.
Not after the big bust in '92, there's no big drug lifestyle anymore. I can't talk about it. Pretty ugly.
