I grew up in a time when women didn't really do comedy. You had to be homely, overweight, an old maid, all that. You had to play a stereotype, because very attractive women were not supposed to be funny - because it's powerful; it's a threat.
I'm not homely enough to play the nerdy girl and not nearly pretty enough to play the pretty girl.
Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies.
My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked.
It's very homely, this castle. It doesn't have huge ballrooms. I didn't want a cold, cavernous place.
A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.
Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury. If everyday experience hasn't convinced you of this, there's research that will.
I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.
Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely.