Groomed Quotes

If I meet a woman who is immaculately groomed, I really admire her discipline. I grew up admiring out-of-this-world screen goddesses, such as Ava Gardner and Rita Hayworth, but I have to acknowledge that I haven`t the patience for getting dressed up very often - at my age you think: "Why bother?" Now that I`m older I don`t go to premieres or first-night parties, not even my own.

Increasingly, stars are recruited from the ranks of professional models, with the result that today`s starlets are better dressed and better groomed than ever before, though it is doubtful if they are better actresses.

(Manchester United goalkeeper Ben Foster expects to spend the next two years away from Old Trafford on loan. Foster joined The Red Devils earlier in the summer from Stoke City and was immediately shipped out to Watford on a season-long loan. The 22-year-old has impressed with The Hornets and looks like being groomed as the long-term successor to Edwin van der Sar at United. Having not played for Stoke before he signed for United, Foster is benefiting from the chance to sample regular football at Championship level. The shot-stopper believes he is likely to spend the 2006/07 season out on loan before making a claim for a place at Old Trafford.) Alex Ferguson told me it was best if I went out on loan and got another year`s experience and maybe even do the same next year, ... Then in two years` time we`ll assess the situation and, if I`ve progressed, he`ll give me a chance. Edwin has got a two-year contract so that`s the plan.

In the contract days, the big studios groomed us to play particular roles and we would stay with the image they gave us and insisted on.

(on being out in public): It is a great thing to have fans come up to you and say, `Oh my God. We love your show. What is going to happen now?` Especially with the hiatus. It is pretty cool to go out, meet your fans and feel their passion for the show as we have for the show, as well. There was a guy walking by with a cell phone, he noticed me and turned his head and opened his mouth and dropped his cell phone, which I thought was a cool thing, because I had the power of a hot woman at that moment. I have had girls come up, hug me and kiss me and run away. I am like, `Wow, don`t run away.` It has been surreal. Last year at this time, I could be walking in to a Starbucks and people wouldn`t look at me. Now I have to be well-groomed because people want to take pictures.

Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive.

There aren`t enough good journalists. There are too many who really weren`t groomed to be reporters and, as a result, some of the reporting is shallow.

Just because your ad looks good is no insurance that it will get looked at. How many people do you know who are impeccably groomed... but dull?

Drop dead gorgeous. We recently ran up above Dillingham Airfield (near Ka`ena Point), and the trail had just been groomed.

Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, good mother, good looking, good tempered, well groomed and unaggressive