Dita Von Teese's Quotes

Some days are just bad days, that's all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that's just the way it is!

I advocate glamour. Every day. Every minute.

I make a point to never, ever point out my physical flaws... this is advice I give to women as often as I can. People don't notice the things we see in ourselves that we hate, so why direct them to it?

Don't underestimate the cosmetic power of sunglasses. It's worth spending a bit of money on a quality pair. I usually go for Dior or Louis Vuitton.

I love glamour and artificial beauty. I love the idea of artifice and dressing up and makeup and hair.

I've always loved the idea of not being what people expect me to be.

Physical beauty isn't so impressive to me.

Anyone who says they don't like to receive a gift is lying.

As a little girl growing up in a small farming town in Michigan, my idols were women like Marlene Dietrich and Rita Hayworth.

But I'm not the girl who changes into flats because my feet are tired at the end of the night. I go the distance. I go all the way.

Corsetry is a body modification.

Every one of my products - my lingerie, my perfume, and everything that I do beauty-related with regard to building my burlesque shows - is just me.

I can't stand wearing the same clothes all day. It makes me insane. I like to dress for the afternoon and for dinner.

I don't feel I have an alter ego.

I don't have long-standing regrets; they pass as I see how things are meant to be.

I feel better about myself when I look my best. I always find the time to put on my powder and do my chignon.

I like having my cellphone. I like the Internet. I like being different.

I like when people know who they are, know their limitations and what they want to do. It's the same thing for me.

I started dressing vintage when I was a teenager because I didn't have money for designer clothes.

I think the beauty looks I most regret are those I was persuaded into.

I want to remind people of a different kind of glamour, a different look, and breaking the rules of fashion. I wanna break the rules.

I was really, really shy when I was a little girl.

I'd say the only time I ever get nervous is around great ballet dancers or people I really admire.

I'm more of an exaggerator than a liar.

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.

Iron hand in a velvet glove.

Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.

Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.

I came, I saw, God conquered.

My cousin Francis and I are in perfect accord - he wants Milan, and so do I.

To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven.

All over the land are vast and handsome pastures, with good grass for cattle, and it strikes me the soil would be very fertile were the country inhabited and improved by reasonable people.

One-third of our people were dangerously ill, getting worse hourly, and we felt sure of meeting the same fate, with death as our only prospect, which in such a country was much worse yet.

Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust to God, Our Lord, and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst.

Two days after moving we recommended ourselves to God, Our Lord, and fled, hoping that, although it was late in the season and the fruits of the tunas were giving out, by remaining in the field we might still get over a good portion of the land.

The only way to sustain a career is to be as prolific as you can be, and open to opportunities.

Ultimately when I throw myself behind a movie, I have to really believe in that director's vision.

Being on a set where the director has lost control is just sickening. No one goes the extra mile, there's a lot of eye-rolling... it just breeds inertia. If a director is in control, the crew follow their leader. But the second anyone senses the directors are not sure, people just swoop in.

In film producing, there is an inherent tension between the director, the money and the producer, and that's what keeps it flowing and honest and accountable.

Theatrically seeing a movie with a group of people and having a collective experience has an authenticity that you can't get with your big screen television.