Flaws Quotes

(On Elizabeth Taylor): "At thirty-four she is an extremely beautiful woman, lavishly endowed by nature with a few flaws in the masterpiece: She has an insipid double chin, her legs are too short and she has a slight potbelly. She has a wonderful bosom, though."

- Richard Burton

But the basic flaws are all still there,

- Daniel Cohen

(Hallmark`s trying, not always successfully, to recapture that old feel. Mystery Woman offers up the new movie Game Time Sunday at 7 p.m. (repeating at 8:45 p.m.), encapsulating both the joys and the flaws of its wheel mates. It`s got that comfortingly familiar structure in which future suspects and victims hurl prescient outbursts:) I`ll pay money to anyone who could shut that woman up for good! ... There`s your killer, chief. I`ll explain everything later.

- Kellie Martin

I never ask my wife about my flaws. Instead I try to get her to ignore them and concentrate on my sense of humor. You don`t want any woman to look under the carpet, guys, because there`s lots of flaws underneath. Joanne believes my character in a film we did together, `Mr. and Mrs. Bridge` comes closest to who I really am. I personally don`t think there`s one character who comes close . . . but I learned a long time ago not to disagree on things that I don`t have a solid opinion about.

- Paul Newman

You know, we have to take these characters who, granted, have their separate personalities but, on a lot of levels, are pretty two-dimensional and make them into people with flaws, with insecurities

- Rachael Leigh Cook

You know, we have to take these characters - who, granted, have their separate personalities but, on a lot of levels, are pretty two-dimensional - and make them into people with flaws, with insecurities.

- Rachael Leigh Cook

(On Elizabeth Taylor): "At thirty-four she is an extremely beautiful woman, lavishly endowed by nature with a few flaws in the masterpiece: She has an insipid double chin, her legs are too short and she has a slight potbelly. She has a wonderful bosom, though."

- Richard Burton

About Boxing Helena (1993) - "I liked `Boxing Helena`. I think it was an almost impossible story to tell. Although it has some flaws, I think it`s neat. I think it`s a really neat story; it`s a beautiful story."

- Sherilyn Fenn

I`m a perfectionist. Sometimes I have to remind myself that it`s OK if there are flaws here and there.

- Tyra Banks

I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?

- Bill Maher

The reason they keep it so tight is that no one liked them, so that without each other, actually, they couldn`t exist. They support each other. They support their flaws and everything else.

- Jennifer Saunders

It`s way too early to pass judgment. It`s still got flaws. They need to tweak it. Is it better than it ever was? I think the verdict is still out on that.

- Darrell Waltrip

There is a price for popularity. Critics look for your weaknesses, your flaws, anything that makes the work seem like a fluke and not seem worthy of all the attention it`s getting.

- Terry McMillan

I love it when ugliness is beautiful. I love character flaws.

- Marcia Gay Harden

Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.

- Dorothy Hamill

This is the best I`ve felt in terms of hitting the ball hard. Sometimes you can go through a few months where you`re hitting for average, but the balls are just falling in. I feel I`m hitting it hard. Most of it was just correcting some flaws in my swing.

- Mike Lieberthal

I felt someone was revealing hard truths about themselves, revealing uneasy things about themselves, which I always find really generous, ... It makes my life easier when people say, `Hey! I`m not perfect,` or, `Hey! I`ve got flaws.` And he did it with such a sense of humor and such compassion for all those flaws, he was making us all a cushion to trip over and fall on, you know?

- Mike Mills

Half the time when you`re writing songs, the things you`re saying, you don`t realize you`re saying about yourself until you finish. Then you look back on an album you`ve written and put the pieces together, and you`re pointing out your flaws. And that`s the kind of stuff people want to hear. They want to know that it`s normal to fuck up. That`s a lot better than writing about purity.

- Caleb Followill

(On his movie "Happiness"): "It`s not for everyone and it`s not designed for everyone and I don`t think I`ll ever write anything that`s designed to appeal to everyone. If you want sympathetic characters it`s easy enough to do, you just give someone cancer and of course we`ll all feel horribly sad and sorry. You make anyone a victim and people feel that way. But that`s not of interest to me as a filmmaker or as a writer. I may be accused of a certain kind of misanthropy but I think I could argue the opposite. I think that it`s only by acknowledging the flaws, the foibles, the failings and so forth of who we are that we can in fact fully embrace the all of who we are. People say I`m cruel or that the film`s cruel, but I think rather it exposes the cruelty and I think that certainly the capacity for cruelty is the most difficult, the most painful thing for any of us to acknowledge. That we are at all capable. And yet I think that it exists as much as the capacity for kindness and it`s only the best of us that are able to suppress, sublimate, re-channel and so forth these baser instincts, but I see them to some degree at play as a regular part of life in very subtle ways and not so subtle ways. I don`t think that after the seventh grade that these impulses evaporate. So from my perspective I`m trying to be honest with what I see and what I`ve experienced and what I believe is true to our nature."

- Todd Solondz

I have a critical nature, in the sense that when I look at something I often look for the flaws.

- Donald Fagen

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I`ll have no ego to injure.

- Aaron McGruder

This president has been reluctant to hold anybody accountable. No one was held accountable after September the 11th. Nobody`s been held accountable after the clear flaws in intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq.

- Bob Graham

Official intelligence on Iraqi weapons programs was flawed, but even with its flaws, it was not what led to the war.

- Paul Pillar

You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that.

- Morley Safer

It`s barely a science because there is so much art that goes into it and so many assumptions. It`s the tool we have got, and it`s got a lot of flaws.

- Laura Hunter

If you`re afraid to let someone else see your weakness, take heart: Nobody`s perfect. Besides, your attempts to hide your flaws don`t work as well as you think they do.

- Adam Enright

However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.

- Al Tompkins

I expect VA`s inspector general and the FBI to work closely together so that we can identify and eliminate the flaws that allowed this leak and prosecute any criminal acts.

- Andreas Rummelt

Larry (Flynt) wouldn`t allow any of his photographers to shoot with diffusion, he wanted the viewer to see every pore in the model`s skin. That made it a challenge to hide flaws that almost every girl has. I had to learn how to do it with posing and lighting." Quoted in The Village Voice, April 4, 2005

- Suze Randall