Blond Quotes

Having watched ‘The Lone Ranger,’ I asked my dad, ‘You think we can be on TV like that guy?’ He said, ‘Probably not. You have to be 6 feet and blond to work in TV and movies.’ I said, ‘But what about that guy? Jay Silverheels?’

People thought me a bit strange at first; a blond haired, blue-eyed Norwegian who sang Mexican folk songs, but I used it to my advantage and got a job. And so the music became my ticket to education.

I always took myself really seriously in my 20s and needed everyone to know that I wasn’t a spoiled blond actress.

Being blond just makes me feel happier, like when the sun’s hitting you. The blond pops. It’s cheerful.

My father identified as a black man. No one asked him because he was clearly black. But people always ask me. If we were together, people would look at us in a really strange way. It sucked. As a little girl I had blond hair and they’d look at me, look at him, and be disgusted.

I have a big personality, and I think big personality plus blond hair makes me come across as glib. With dark hair, people look at your face more. Before, it was all about the hair.

Perfect isn’t normal, nor is it interesting. I have no features without makeup. I am pale. I have blond lashes. You could just paint my face – it’s like a blank canvas. It can be great for what I do.

I really like red hair. I think if you have brown hair, you want blond hair; if you have blond hair, you want blue hair. We always want what we don’t have. It takes a while to admit, Hey, it’s just part of me.

I have been 130 lbs. as well as 215 lbs. I have had blond, strawberry blond, green, pink and purple hair, and none of that has ever exempted me from having lewd comments flung at me in the street.

I am not a redhead. I have never been and am still not. Well, just a little… but I was blond as a kid and then mousy brown. As I got older… it came up. I’ve got a lot of red in my hair, but I’m not a ginge.

I didn’t want to end up in Hollywood having facelifts and my hair dyed blond so I could appear on my own album cover.

I’ve never been anything than a blond my whole life. There was one time when I dyed the ends pink. My father said if I ever did that again, he’d shave my head and keep me home ’til it grew back.

When people look and decide they have nothing in common with me – I’m 43, balding, blond, whatever – there’s something absolutely invigorating about winning them over. Even if it’s eight people from Sweden who don’t understand what I’m talking about.

The key characteristics of a tempura-style batter are extreme lightness of color and texture: Good tempura should be pale blond with an extraordinarily lacy, light, and crisp coating.

People do notice me – I’m always so surprised. When I dyed my hair blond for ‘Suburgatory,’ people would still recognize me from ‘The Last Song,’ when I had red hair, and I didn’t even recognize myself.

When I was six, I entered a talent contest. I dyed my hair blond, had a chainsaw and pretended I was Eminem. The old folk weren’t expecting that.

Well, my piano’s really beautiful. I actually have two pianos. I have a Yamaha upright from the ’60s that’s blond, wood, and black, and I also have one from the ’20s from Chicago – not a well-known brand or anything.

I was this little blond girl with a guitar case bigger than me – it was pink and sparkly at the time. But I always took myself seriously, and I think that people took that seriously. I would tell them about my goal list, and they listened. I was like, ‘I want to be the one that swings the pendulum.’

I wanted to be like my friends. I hung out with girls who had blue eyes and blond hair and I thought, ‘I want to look like them!’

Hair is so important and emotional. I dyed mine black and blond after a breakup – there’s something really powerful about changing your hair when you’re in a weird place.

My natural color is dark blond, but right now I like being a brunette. I did a movie last summer and they dyed my hair platinum – I hated it.

I love my black hair, but some imes I’d like to be blond, but I don’t think it suits Asian girl… What a pity!

I did my schooling at Holy Angels, where they had stringent rules. I coloured my hair blond and red and was pulled up by the principal.

I went out for a film where they wanted seven brothers and one sister, so I was there for half a day while they were waiting for ‘Archie’ to read for a boy… I’ve had drivers come to pick me up in England looking for a blond, blue-eyed Scottish boy.

I always worked mostly in Quebec. I never thought of the States, somehow. I don’t know – I don’t have blue eyes or blond hair. I thought I didn’t fit with the stereotype of America.

I must say also that it’s never worked to my disadvantage that I have long, blond hair.

I’m insecure about everything, because… I’m never going to look in the mirror and see this blond, blue-eyed girl. That is my idea of what I’d like to look like.

On April 3, 2014, Jane Goodall turned 80. The iconic blond ponytail has gone gray, but the sparkle of intelligence, sly humor, and fierce dedication still shines from her hazel eyes.

I’ve only dyed my hair blond once, after ‘Varsity Blues.’

It’s so nice after 10 years as a blond actress in Hollywood to have people let you do smart things.

I was a loudmouth rock star when I was still in college. Purple hair this week, green hair next week, blond hair the week after. I was doing that fashion before it was really cool.

Tracey Cunningham does my color, and little by little, my ombre turned into more of a rooted blond, and then it got lighter and lighter. I love how I stand out more as a blond – it makes me feel bright and healthy.

I can’t pull off blond, but I got some blond tips. Which is as close as I’ll ever come to being in a ’90s boy band.

Not everyone relates to being a blond girl with blue eyes and is proportioned so she could barely walk if she was a real person.

Marilyn Monroe had thick, dark eyebrows even though her hair was platinum and it looked gorgeous. It worked because she had brown eyes – dark eyes can handle a dark brow even if the hair is blond.

When we were kids, I remember we’d use lemon in our hair and go into the sun, hoping it would make us blond. Obviously, I have very dark hair and olive skin, and when I was a kid, I wanted to be blond, of course. It never worked.

In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda. The Germans were evil, but treated with some respect: They were, after all, blond Aryan types, just like our imaginary self-image. Japanese were mere vermin, to be crushed like ants.

I would miss months of school and then return with bright blond hair. Needless to say, there was bullying. I wasn’t beaten up daily, but there was name-calling and jealousy. You have to bear in mind that ‘Harry Potter’ wasn’t cool. I wasn’t part of the ‘Terminator’ franchise.

My dad has blond hair, my grandmother has blue eyes. My daughter has blue eyes and blond hair. So it is pretty funny to me that I’m so heavily identified as an Asian person.

I always say ‘thriller;’ if they see you’re a woman – and you’re a blond woman – people assume you’re writing about cats and romances where somebody has died.

I was at lunch with some friends one day, and we looked down at our table – blond pasta, blond pizza – and then someone joked, ‘Blonde salad,’ and it stuck.

Marilyn was a great actress, not a dumb blond bombshell. She was very smart, very astute and a good businesswoman.

Black liner looks harsh on me because I’m so blond, so I do a brown liner with a black mascara. My favorite is ‘L’Oreal Voluminous’ on my top and bottom lashes. For a while, I only did mascara on the upper lashes, but it makes me look too pretty.

Yes, I’m blonde. When I started as an actor, because of the accent and my body and my personality, it was not what the stereotype of the Latina woman in Hollywood is, so they didn’t know where to put me. The blond hair wasn’t matching. The moment I put my hair dark, it was better for my work.

Trouble is, I’m not a real ginger. I’m just a ginger-bearded, pale-skinned, strawberry blond.

I catch an old ‘Morse’ on ITV3. I’ve never thought I looked particularly like my son. He’s taller than me and blond. But when I see Lewis walk into a room with John Thaw, it’s like my son has just come onto the screen. That’s very strange indeed!

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said – and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded – ‘It’s like hair color. It’s nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It’s not a subject.’ This was a very healthy attitude.

In some instances, I don’t care what people think. In other instances, I do – especially because of the stereotype. People take a look at me and say, ‘She’s cute. She’s blond. She’s an actress. She’s a bimbo.’ You know? So I take great pains to show I’m intelligent, to show I’m not a twinkie.

I’ve learned to appreciate looking unique and not having long, blond locks… at last.

Everything goes with blond. You can wear it with any color, and it’s great.

It’s fun to be blond, and it’s almost difficult to remember how I used to look with my proper hair color.

I suffer from peroxide phobia. Every time I’ve gotten near a blond woman, something of mine has disappeared. Jobs, boyfriends… one time an angora sweater leaped right off my body.

With Trixie specifically, on the one hand, it’s a celebration of femininity. It’s that moment when you’re playing Pretty Pretty Princess, and there’s also, this is what society says a girl looks like, the amount of makeup I wear and the humongous blond wigs.

If you are AC/DC, you don’t get credit for slow songs. And if you are doing a show about food with a blond dude with crazy blond hair and tattoos who drives a hot rod, of course everyone is going to think everything you eat is deep-fried.

I’m not a real blond… Shocking.

I was too old, too young, too fat, too thin, too tall, too short, too blond, too dark – but at some point, they’re going to need the other. So I’d get really good at being the other.

I just worship Madonna. As, like, a young gay kid growing up in the ’80s and ’90s… I was at the Blond Ambition tour with my parents vogue-ing up in the mezzanine at the Nassau Coliseum.

The funny thing is that everyone thinks I’m naturally dark because all of my siblings are, but I’m naturally dirty blond.

Don’t fault me for wearing a 20-inch blond wig – it doesn’t mean I want to be a white person.

I’m thin and white and blond, but I’m not an airbrushed, perfect thing. I have stretch marks all over. I have cellulite; I have acne. To me, it feels like you can’t really be what you can’t see, and so if you don’t see those things, then you don’t feel like you’re valid.