Dita Von Teese Quotes

I like styling girls that don't normally dress in vintage clothes and don't normally wear red lipstick; I like seeing those kind of girls restyled in a retro way.

When people say I look intimidating, it's hard for me to relate to. I hear that a lot. I don't know why.

I'm more of an exaggerator than a liar.

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

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

What modern day burlesquer hasn't been influenced by Sally Rand? My own pink ostrich fans -designed by Catherine, naturally- were the largest fans on any stage in the world (even I must up the ante). They are absolutely stunning! Made with four graduated shades of pink and hundreds of rose-colored crystals, they measure seven feet across and weigh 2.3 pounds each.

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

It might take just as much effort to fit in as it does to stand out, because you're standing up for yourself. It's those who take a risk and take chances who achieve greatness. Those who play it safe never can.

I have been obsessed with seamed stockings my whole life, and I would collect vintage ones that were made in the '40s and '50s with the authentic styling of the keyhole, the welt, the reinforced toe and heels, French or Cuban heels, and hand-stitched seams.

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

You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there's still going to be somebody who hates peaches.

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

I suppose women are attracted to the bad-boy image sometimes because it's fun to have an adventure. It's like eating junk food ... it's fun at the time, but ultimately not the best choice.

Me personally, I want to entertain people above all. When you look back at burlesque in history and the real golden age of burlesque, those entertainers were there to entertain, and there wasn't usually some big political message behind what they were doing.

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

Red lips don't look good on blotchy, uneven skin.

Don't save your good lingerie for dates, wear it for you.

Thanks to my mother, people tell me I look younger than I am, especially without make-up. And I suppose my father had a part in making me more frugal with my money.

I'm a designer, producer and I am hands-on for every project I undertake. The creative side of what I do is really something I think people overlooked for a while.

I say, enhance what others might deem less than wow and make that your beauty mark.

Would you believe I devise my entire show based upon a single one of these jewels? It's true I choose a color from my collection ( ... ) and with it I can imagine a whole world.

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

The new acts' major influences were movies and their curvy queens Brigitte Bardot and Marilyn Monroe. With their big blonde hair, ample breasts, and highly fertile hips, these bombshells inspired women everywhere to exxagerate their own voluptuousness.

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.

I'm more attracted to glamour than natural beauty. The young Marilyn Monroe was a pretty girl in a sea of pretty girls. Then she had her hair bleached, fake eyelashes, and that's when she became extraordinary. It's that idea of what you're not born with, you can create.

Everyone else can go ahead and live in their beige movie. I prefer mine in Technicolor. They might all look at me and they might talk about me and they might think I'm weird.
And you know what? I couldn't possibly disappoint them.
So let's not.
Instead, let's show them how it's done.

I feel empowered the fact that I can look the way that I do on stage and in photos - I can look that way any time I want. And I feel like it's important message to other women that they can do it, too.

I was always intrigued by the idea of bringing things together that are considered taboo or risque and bringing them together with something of high elegance and sophistication.

I'm not always in a full face of make-up! That's actually one of the things I like about make-up - that you can strip it away and show your vulnerability.

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

Corsetry is a body modification.

Ignore the critics ... Only mediocrity is safe from ridicule. Dare to be different!

When I was a little girl, I watched all old movies. My mother liked old movies, and she loved shopping for antiques, so I was around old things all the time.

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

Physical beauty isn't so impressive to me.

I like the idea of being whoever I want to be.

I don't feel I have an alter ego.

Well, when I was fifteen years old I worked in a lingerie store and that's how I feel in love with vintage lingerie because I wanted to know the history of it.

I think as someone who collects beautiful things from the past, the thing that I miss the most about modernism and the things I lament about the past are everyday things that you would use were made more beautifully.

My beauty icons are women whose images are self-created.

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 always say, either take the steps to lose the weight you keep threatening to lose, or love the way you are.

When I started performing, there was no Internet; I didn't really have anything to copy. I kind of had to just make up what I thought burlesque was, based on photographs of Sally Rand or whatever.