If everybody's not a beauty, then nobody is.

Its almost like a disability if you are not born good looking, appealing or in the least bit desirable. It can be rather crippling and daunting for someone to be constantly compared and judged based on his/her appearance. I mean how shallow is that! Its like a complete arse swipe in the face debasing people. Though I admit I'm inclined to look at fat people differently sometimes. But I still respect them nonetheless. In fact, the whole superficiality thing is getting a little bit frustrating and sickening. Especially in Asian societies, girls are all expected to be beautiful. If you are not, then you are like pork chop. Guys don't really give a hoot about what you are doing, unless you are paid a million annual. But why is this all happening? I think we really need more people to learn to look beyond physical beauty. They are like the 'Supershallow'.

Anyway, I love this line by Andy Warhol, "If everybody's not a beauty, then nobody is."

I always hear myself saying, "She's a beauty!" or "He's a beauty!" or "What a beauty!" but I never know what I'm talking about. I honestly don't know what beauty is, not to speak of what "a" beauty is. So that leaves me in a strange position, because I'm noted for how much I talk about "this one's a beauty" and "that one's a beauty." For a year once it was in all the magazines that my next movie was going to be The Beauties. The publicity for it was great, but then I could never decide who should be in it. If everybody's not a beauty, then nobody is, so I didn't want to imply that the kids in The Beauties were beauties but the kids in my other movies weren't so I had to back out on the basis of the title. It was all wrong.

I really don't care that much about "Beauties." What I really like are Talkers. To me, good talkers are beautiful because good talk is what I love. The word itself shows why I like Talkers better than Beauties, why I tape more than I film. It's not "talkies." Talkers are doing something. Beauties are being something. Which isn't necessarily bad, it's just that I don't know what it is they're being. It's more fun to be with people who are doing things.