Skins Quotes - Page 12

The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt.

[To the South African parliament:] I do not know why we equate - and with the examples before us - a white skin with civilization.

What comfort there is in the skin of someone you love!

I never felt the urge to jump off a bridge, but there are times I have wanted to jump out of my life, out of my skin.

I don't want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something that's under their skin, so you try to make the films really tactile.

I don't consider myself a shy person necessarily, but there's something about getting under the skin of a character and allowing you an abandon or a sense of courage that you would never have in your own life.

You have to work out where your place is. And who you are. But we're all spirit. That's all we are, we're just walking dressed up in a suit of skin, and we're going to leave that behind.

A woman is most beautiful when she smiles. Other than that, the most valuable tip I've learned is always use a skin moisturiser!

In our present state of degeneration it is through the skin that metaphysics must be made to re-enter our minds.

Drink a bunch of water and get facials regularly. I take care of my skin.

I know that having the perfect body doesn't fix all your problems, or make you love yourself more. To me, it's all about being comfortable in your own skin.

I'm pretty blessed when it comes to clear skin. I owe that to being Cape Verdian. My whole family has great skin. My grandfather is 80 but doesn't look a day over 50. And we all love the sun, too, so blessed is an understatement!

I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.

Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

Maybe you've had skin next to your skin, but when was the last time you let yourself be touched?

I'll usually run an ice-cube over my skin to close all the pores. That's pretty much my daily routine.

New skin, a new land! And a land of liberty, if that is possible! I chose the geology of a land that was new to me.

I've been out with some extremely beautiful women who have had no sex appeal whatsoever. It really is a lot more than skin deep.

Live like a mud-fish: its skin is bright and shiny even though it lives in mud.

Finding joy is probably tantamount to finding yourself and being comfortable in your own skin.

People say, Why dont you just paint with paintbrushes? I say that I feel more connected to my painting using my skin. Its very tribal in a way - savage!

I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.

Adoption was something that was always under my skin, that I knew would be a part of my life, and, when I decided to start filing, it was very clear. It was like I knew that this was exactly what it needed to be. So then you go through the process, and it's tough. It's not the easiest process - and then again, I've never liked things too easy in life. But it emotionally knocks you out.

The only thing I really get snobby about is - not food or wine or certainly not television - I would say I get snobby about skin-care regimens and people taking care of their skin in the right way.