Advancement often depends not on rightness of action, but on acceptable behavior and image, e.g., self-control, appearance and dress, perception as a team player, style and patron of power. The result of all this is ethical erosion.
Appearance Quotes
You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal – no one will see it. But when a button is missing – everyone sees that.
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, it must be a duck.
I don’t seem to have a 20th century face.
Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them… there is nothing.
Don’t judge a book by its cover.
I always give a little thought to my appearances, and come on as early as possible – don’t want to hold them is suspense for the wrong reason! I’ve been in all my films, on and off. Missed a few. Only cancelled one. It got into the press ahead of time… I was going to […]
Mellow nuts have the hardest rind.
A red-nosed man may be a teetotaler, but will find no one to believe it.
Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely.
