Imperfections Quotes

"We all have our imperfections. But I`m human and you know, it`s important to concentrate on other qualities besides outer beauty".

(On actresses living in Hollywood) I take my hat off to actresses there, particularly the young ones, because the emphasis is on trying to find perfection. But I think it`s the imperfections in people that make them perfect. I don`t find perfect faces very interesting.

I don`t mind what I see in the mirror - imperfections and all. I like having wonky teeth. I know everyone has their teeth straightened but I like looking a bit goofier. I`m not interested in straightforward and pretty; I want to feel more individual. I much prefer the bits of me, like my nose, that lend character. I`m also pleased with my hair. I`ve been growing it for four years and now I can almost sit on it.

People have begun to look so air-brushed in films. Everything I`ve done this year has been about showing imperfections, about real people.

I don`t want perfection of detail in the acting. I`d hate a picture that was perfect, it would seem machine made. I want the human touch, so that you love the picture for its imperfections.

If kids like a picture book, they`re going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed.

One is the pin the blame on the media with the references to the tabloid spectacle, ... One is the assertion of full cooperation with the police. One is the carving of a moat around his private life. And one is the use of constructive ambiguity with references to not being perfect but with no explanation for what those imperfections are.

On Scooby-Doo: "With all the difficulties plaguing the world over the past year, isn`t it about time we had a hero who tells kids it`s okay to be afraid?" "Scooby`s the greatest cartoon character ever. He isn`t cute like Mickey, or smart like Bugs, or fearless like Woody and Buzz -- he`s a talking dog who`s more human than I am. It`s his humanity and imperfections that make him special."

`What should be, is.` As my grandmother explained it to our family the winter she lost three fingertips to frostbite when the furnace in her little house broke and she fell and cracked a hip while trying to light it, `Accepting life`s imperfections is not the secret. The secret, dears, is to understand life has none. How could it? We`ve got nothing to compare it to. We can dream something up, of course- some pretty maybe life where fingers are very hard and indestructible- but that`s pure mischief, darlings. Fingers freeze. It`s one of the things they like to do sometimes.`

Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?

The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other`s bed, where the rival perfects the lover`s imperfections.

So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.

As you begin your tour of the United States, you may as well know that one American national trait which irritates many Americans and must be convenient for our critics is that we relentlessly advertise our imperfections.

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.

You will not dishonor the divine perfections by judgments unworthy of them, provided you never judge of Him by yourself, provided you do not ascribe to the Creator the imperfections and limitations of created beings.

Christ bears with the saints` imperfections; well may the saints one with another.

Sean: My wife used to fart when she was nervous. She had all sorts of wonderful little idiosyncrasies. She used to fart in her sleep. I thought I'd share that with you. One night it was so loud it woke the dog up. She woke up and went '˜ah was that you?' And I didn't have the heart to tell her. Oh! Will: She woke herself up? Sean: Ah...! But Will, she's been dead for 2 years, and that`s the shit I remember: wonderful stuff you know? Little things like that. Those are the things I miss the most. The little idiosyncrasies that only I know about: that`s what made her my wife. Oh she had the goods on me too, she knew all my little peccadilloes. People call these things imperfections, but there not. Ah, that`s the good stuff. ~ Robin Williams as Sean Maguire, Matt Damon as Will Hunting.

Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.