Dita Von Teese Quotes

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

My beauty icons are women whose images are self-created. ~ Dita Von Teese

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. ~ Dita Von Teese

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. ~ Dita Von Teese

Physical beauty isn't so impressive to me. ~ Dita Von Teese

I was really, really shy when I was a little girl. ~ Dita Von Teese

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. ~ Dita Von Teese

I like the idea of being whoever I want to be. ~ Dita Von Teese

I like having my cellphone. I like the Internet. I like being different. ~ Dita Von Teese

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

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. ~ Dita Von Teese

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. ~ Dita Von Teese

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. ~ Dita Von Teese

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. ~ Dita Von Teese

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. ~ Dita Von Teese

Ignore the critics ... Only mediocrity is safe from ridicule. Dare to be different! ~ Dita Von Teese

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

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. ~ Dita Von Teese

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

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. ~ Dita Von Teese

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. ~ Dita Von Teese

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

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. ~ Dita Von Teese

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. ~ Dita Von Teese

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. ~ Dita Von Teese

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. ~ Dita Von Teese

Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand), the first single from Eat Me, Drink Me, features a video filmed by Titanic director James Cameron. In it, Manson croons to Wood, who – with bobbed hair, gloves and a demure frock – blankly masturbates in an audience of writhing lesbians, Manson's image reflected in her heart-shaped glasses. I wanted to like the song, but found Manson's threadbare voice and overdubbed music annoying, and the chorus - 'Don't break my heart/and I won't break your heart-shaped glasses' – suggested a pugilistic retribution ('Dump me, and I'll punch your lights out!') more in keeping with Norman Mailer than Nabokov. ~ Antonella Gambotto-Burke

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. ~ Dita Von Teese

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. ~ Dita Von Teese

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. ~ Dita Von Teese

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. ~ Dita Von Teese

I always say, either take the steps to lose the weight you keep threatening to lose, or love the way you are. ~ Dita Von Teese

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. ~ Dita Von Teese

Anyone who says they don't like to receive a gift is lying. ~ Dita Von Teese

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

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. ~ Dita Von Teese

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

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

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? ~ Dita Von Teese

I'm more of an exaggerator than a liar. ~ Dita Von Teese

Red lips don't look good on blotchy, uneven skin. ~ Dita Von Teese

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. ~ Dita Von Teese

Corsetry is a body modification. ~ Dita Von Teese

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

I don't feel I have an alter ego. ~ Dita Von Teese

Don't save your good lingerie for dates, wear it for you. ~ Dita Von Teese

I think the beauty looks I most regret are those I was persuaded into. ~ Dita Von Teese

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. ~ Dita Von Teese

Manage your spending by creating and sticking to a budget. ~ Alexa Von Tobel

To the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing ... so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring about the inevitable decline of the civilization which the nations of the West have taken thousands of years to build up. ~ Ludwig Von Mises

It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong. ~ Otto Von Bismarck

Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Architecture is frozen music. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We cannot assume the injustice of any actions which only create offense, and especially as regards religion and morals. He who utters or does anything to wound the conscience and moral sense of others, may indeed act immorally; but, so long as he is not guilty of being importunate, he violates no right. ~ Wilhelm Von Humboldt

My high school wasn't a big public school; it was tiny. There were 36 girls in my graduating class. We were a big group of girls that by the time senior year came along couldn't wait to get away from school fast enough but we loved each other. It's really fun to see the girls at reunions now. ~ Cecily Von Ziegesar

Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death. ~ Otto Von Bismarck

If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty. ~ Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I get ideas about what's essential when packing my suitcase. ~ Diane Von Furstenberg

All my life I've been looking for diversity. ~ Max Von Sydow

Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

To be modern means to like antique furniture - and youthful neurosis. ~ Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

My obsession with James Franco borders on the unhealthy. ~ Max Von Essen

Water its living strength first shows, When obstacles its course oppose. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There's a cellular automaton called TVC. After Turing, von Neumann and Chiang. Chiang's version was N-dimensional. That leaves plenty of room for data within easy reach. In two dimensions, the original von Neumann machine had to reach further and further - and wait longer and longer - for each successive bit of data. In a six-dimensional TVC automaton, you can have a three-dimensional grid of computers, which keeps on growing indefinitely - each with its own three-dimensional memory, which can also grow without bound.

And when the simulated TVC universe being run on the physical computer is suddenly shut down, the best explanation for what I've witnessed will be a continuation of that universe - an extension made out of dust. Maria could almost see it: a vast lattice of computers, a seed of order in a sea of random noise, extending itself from moment to moment by sheer force of internal logic, "accreting" the necessary building blocks from the chaos of non-space-time by the very act of defining space and time. ~ Greg Egan

Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Great men have great dogs. ~ Otto Von Bismarck

Authorship is, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, an infamy, a pastime, a day-labor, a handicraft, an art, a science, a virtue. ~ August Wilhelm Von Schlegel

In abbreviated form, by a kind of symbol, only the most essential information is passed on and passed on only to those concerned. It is more than a metaphor to describe the price system as a kind of machinery for registering change, or a system of telecommunications which enables individual producers to watch merely the movement of a few pointers, as an engineer might watch the hands of a few dials, in order to adjust their activities to changes of which they may never know more than is reflected in the price movement. ~ Friedrich August Von Hayek

I've always liked wrinkles. When I was a young girl, I used to make lines on my face with my nails because I loved Jeanne Moreau. I always wanted to be older; I always added years to my life. For the longest time, if people thought I was older, I would take it as a compliment. ~ Diane Von Furstenberg

O my Charlotte, the sacred, tender remembrance! Gracious Heaven! restore to me the happy moment of our first acquaintance.
I smile at the suggestions of my heart, and obey its dictates.
their hearts do not beat in unison
I turned my face away. She should not act thus. She ought not to excite my imagination with such displays of heavenly innocence and happiness, nor awaken my heart from its slumbers, in which it dreams of the worthlessness of life! And why not? Because she knows how much I love her.
I possess so much, but my love for her absorbs it all. I possess so much, but without her I have nothing.
My dear friend, my energies are all prostrated: she can do with me what she pleases. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Strategy can therefore never take its hand from the work for a moment. ~ Carl Von Clausewitz

I love sexy, intelligent women. Sexiness is hard to define. Of course a woman can be beautiful, but I think it's something in the eyes. It's a woman saying something secretive, something in her eyes that's almost animalistic. ~ Ellen Von Unwerth

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I am very anxious to please the public, particularly as it lives and lets live. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

At nineteen, one lives in the utter idolatry, therefore the extreme superstition, of sex. Monstrously exaggerated tales about sexual feats, which we listen to greedily, determine our expectations. The disappointments are correspondingly great. ~ Gregor Von Rezzori

Whenever you touch topaz, it touches you. It awakens a gentle fire, like wine awakens in grapes. Still unborn, clear wine seeks channels amidst stone, demands words, bestows its secret nourishment, shares out the kiss of human skin. The touch of stone and man in serene peace kindles garlands of fleeting flowers, which then return to prime sources: flesh and stone: contrary elements. (Translation, Beatriz von Eidlitz) ~ Pablo Neruda

War is elevating, because the individual disappears before the great conception of the state ... What a perversion of morality to wish to abolish heroism among men! ~ Heinrich Von Treitschke

The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

For I'm afraid of loneliness; shiveringly, terribly afraid. I don't mean the ordinary physical loneliness, for here I am, deliberately travelled away from London to get to it, to its spaciousness and healing. I mean that awful loneliness of spirit that is the ultimate tragedy of life. When you've got to that, really reached it, without hope, without escape, you die. You just can't bear it, and you die. ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim

What a place for him who intends to pass an examination, to write a book, or who wants the crumples got by crushing together too long with his fellows to be smoothed out of his soul. ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim

To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Death is Nature's expert advice to get plenty of Life. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I came across my diary again today, which for some time I have neglected, and I'm astonished how consciously, step by step, I walked into it all. How clearly I have always seen my condition and acted like a child nevertheless, and how clearly I still see now, and still with no sign of a cure. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The state is the only institution entitled to apply coercion and compulsion and to inflict harm upon individuals. This tremendous power cannot be abandoned to the discretion of some men, however competent and clever they may deem themselves. It is necessary to restrict its application. This is the task of the laws. ~ Ludwig Von Mises