126 Plastic Surgery Quotes

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Famous Plastic Surgery Quotes

Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women. — Naomi Wolf

Money can't buy you happiness but it can pay for the plastic surgery. — Joan Rivers

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon. - Groucho Marx

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon. — Groucho Marx

I'm totally not against plastic surgery. I've tried Botox before. That's the only thing that I've done. — Kim Kardashian

I’ve had so much plastic surgery, when I die they will donate my body to Tupperware. — Joan Rivers

I am totally against plastic surgery. A lot of people think I have breast implants because I have the biggest boobs in the business. — Tyra Banks

Every time I undress in the locker room of my gym, I see women bearing the scars of liposuction, tummy tucks, breast implants. — Martha C. Nussbaum

I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso. — Rita Rudner

No! Beauty is emotional! That's why plastic surgery never works. Women who want to change their nose, lips, they don't understand that they are doing nothing except erasing their magic. — Mario Testino

I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate. — Fran Drescher

We get nose jobs all the time in the NHL, and we don't even have to go to the hospital. — Brad Park

God gave us intestines for a reason. I'm not keen on surgery. It's too extreme. All it took was one of those plastic surgery shows to see how violent it is. — Kirstie Alley

Remember how many beautiful women there were in the 1950s and 1960s, without any surgery? And now, thanks to degeneration, we have this. — Valeria Lukyanova

When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays. — Henny Youngman

Every six months I fly to Dallas to get botox and I also get collagen injections. — Janice Dickinson

Short Plastic Surgery Quotes

  • Breast implants gross me out. I don't think they're attractive at all. — Natalie Portman
  • Just to confirm to all my followers I have had a hair transplant. I was going bald at 25 why not. — Wayne Rooney
  • What doctor does not need platform heels and dark black eyeliner to treat their patients? — Sarah Chalke
  • Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. — John Updike
  • Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery. — Mitch Daniels
  • Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures. — Han Suyin
  • Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty. — Coco Chanel
  • My secret for staying young is good food, plenty of rest, and a makeup man with a spray gun. — Bob Hope

Plastic Surgery Image Quotes

No Plastic Surgery Quotes

No more Botox for me. Betty White's bowels move more than my face. — Joan Rivers

[On plastic surgery:] When I die, God won't know me. There are no two parts of my body the same age. — Phyllis Diller

No, it has not been hard to grow older, because I believe if you have something you believe in that will keep you alive far more than plastic surgery or Botox. — Veruschka von Lehndorff

I definitely believe in plastic surgery. I don't want to be an old hag. There's no fun in that. — Scarlett Johansson

I don't want to be vain or fearful, and I don't think I'll do anything [in terms of plastic surgery], but if I want to do something, I will. From my perspective, there's no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you're lucky! The alternative is death. — Drew Barrymore

No surgical tweaks. No Botox either. I think it is terrible, these girls in their late 20s injecting their faces and lips. One told me, If I kill my muscles now, I'll never get wrinkles. Can you imagine? — Salma Hayek

Everybody does what she needs. And if you want plastic surgery, and then you feel better, why not? There is no law. I've nothing against using something to help your beauty - but do it in a good way, with intelligence. — Monica Bellucci

Getting plastic surgery in your late 70's, it's kind of like painting your house as the fire approaches. Just die, there's no shame in it. — Dana Gould

I never had plastic surgery. I had a nose procedure done because I had to. I had no cartilage in my nose; I have a piece of cartilage from my ear put into my nose. I had a medical procedure done. I have no plastic in my nose. — Tamar Braxton

Of course, every time someone does a story on plastic surgery, my name will be dragged up. I've made it safe for other people to have plastic surgery. It's no longer a bad word. — Greta Van Susteren

Major Surgery Quotes

I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body. — Winston Bennett

I embarked on a risky course of plastic surgery and silicone injections, major dental realignments and gruesome medical procedures. I pray that young dancers, those who imitate me at their peril, will avoid this blind alley. It is more than a dead end; it is a dead beginning. — Gelsey Kirkland

I went through a big Alice Cooper phase, which was probably a major influence on my writing style later, especially after Plastic Surgery Disasters. — Jello Biafra

Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel. — Jay Samit

I think I've always had a pretty good time in life. I mean, I've had major trouble, and major brain surgeries, and challenges in relationships - like anyone else - but overall, when I wake up in the morning, and I'm aware, I'm like, "Ok. What's happening today? What's next?" — Gary Kraftsow

Remember, it is no sign of weakness or defeat that your manuscript ends up in need of major surgery. This is a common occurrence in all writing, and among the best writers. — William Strunk, Jr.

When people are facing a severe illness or a major surgery, that may be one of the most significant opportunities for spiritual transformation that they will encounter. — Allan Hamilton

I spent the first forty years of my life making major interventions into other people's lives, and I have an idea of the limitations of that method. I see a major event as rather like major surgery. It is a moment, but whether people use it, whether people go with it, needs to be seen. — Rachel Naomi Remen

It is not always worth the discomforts of major surgery to get minor recovery. — Richard Asher

I had a major surgery, a major abdominal surgery, and a mass was removed from my pelvic area, and I do have some more recovery to do. But everything seems to be fine. — Robin Quivers

Surgery Today Quotes

Today's woman puts on wigs, fake eyelashes, false nails, sixteen pounds of make-up/shadows/blushes/creams, living bras, various pads that would make a linebacker envious, has implants and assorted other surgeries, then complains that she cannot find a 'real' man — Maynard James Keenan

I know today that appreciating your own beauty does not come solely from therapy, make up application, or plastic surgery- although these things can help. Rather, it comes from a little door that opens in our minds and helps us celebrate our differences and find pride in our uniqueness. — Laura Mercier

Today I would say, 'I am against plastic surgery.' It's a grave act. An act that touches our soul. It was frightening. — Emmanuelle Beart

I'm having surgery today to have my face cleaned up. But it will take some fancy stitching to make me all beautiful again! — Patsy Cline

Aspects that we consider normal today could very well be repugnant in the future - eating animals, for one thing, or abundant choice, or invasive surgery. I was simply trying to demonstrate that what is acceptable today may not be acceptable forever, and vice-versa. — Jasper Fforde

I'm so against surgery. I can tell you today and I can tell you for sure I will never do anything to my face. Nothing. The age I am? That's it. — Emmanuelle Alt

I would love to make a film about aging that would take place before the war. It would follow the stages in the life of a woman who would not have at her disposal the resources of today like cosmetic surgery, creams and pills. — Roman Polanski

The 'drugs or surgery only approach that modern medicine uses to treat today's diseases is archaic. — Julian Whitaker

Plastic Surgeons Quotes

Tell the image makers and magazine sellers and the plastic surgeons that you are not afraid. That what you fear the most is the death of imagination and originality and metaphor and passion. Then be bold and LOVE YOUR BODY. STOP FIXING IT. It was never broken. — Marion Woodman

On bad days, I think I'd like to be a plastic surgeon who goes to Third World countries and operates on children in villages with airlifts, and then I think, 'Yeah, right, I'm going to go back to undergraduate school and take all the biology I missed and then go to medical school.' No. No. — Tama Janowitz

A woman went to a plastic surgeon and asked him to make her like Bo Derek. He gave her a lobotomy. — Joan Rivers

A cynic might conclude that the real purpose of the $500 million-a-year implant business is the implantation of fat in the bellies and rumps of underemployed plastic surgeons. — Barbara Ehrenreich

Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills. — Dolly Parton

One thing to remember on the Eiger, never look up, or you may need a plastic surgeon. — Don Whillans

It's a plastic surgeon you need, not a doctor — John Cleese

You can't treat an illness with cosmetic surgery, and that's why it would be great if there were qualified therapists in plastic surgeons' offices, and that people would go to a therapeutic meeting before plastic surgery. I think that should be part of the FDA requirement. — Sharon Stone

A well-off plastic surgeon can suffer just as much as an Irish lad who has been abused or whatever. — William Nicholson

I may be married to a plastic surgeon, but I'm 98 percent real. — Heather Dubrow

Cosmetic Surgery Quotes

Just like cosmetic surgery, teeth whitening is a personal choice. Your dentist shouldn't be the one to bring it up—it should be YOU who brings it up and drives the treatment. — Mark Burhenne

When asked her view of cosmetic surgery, Carmen Dell'Orefice replies, '”That's a very polite way of asking me, I'm sure, ‘Have you had a facelift?' Well, if you had the ceiling falling down in your living room, would you not go and have a repair? — Carmen Dell'Orefice

I have a professional acquaintance whose recent eyelid job has left her with a permanent expression of such poleaxed astonishment that she looks at all times as if she had just read one of my books. — Florence King

What does it profit a 78-year-old woman to sit around the pool in a bikini if she cannot feed herself? — Erma Bombeck

I can't even get three weeks off to have cosmetic surgery. — Paul Lynde

Cosmetic surgery is terrifying. It never looks good. Those women look weird. They look in the mirror and think they look great, but they don't see what we see. I think it's hideous. They scare small children. — Jerry Hall

People in California seem to age at a different rate than the rest of the country. Maybe it's the passion for diet and exercise, maybe the popularity of cosmetic surgery. Or maybe we're afflicted with such a horror of aging that we've halted the process psychically. — Sue Grafton

Cosmetic surgery and the ideology of self-improvement may have made women's hope for legal recourse to justice obsolete. — Naomi Wolf

I have had some cosmetic surgery, especially after I lost weight and stuff, and I've had my breasts lifted - but not injected. That would scare me to death, anyway. — Dolly Parton

I'm addicted to cosmetic surgery! — Janice Dickinson

Surgery Quotes

Every eye is an eye, when you're doing the surgery there that is just as important as if you were doing eye surgery on the prime minster or the king. — Fred Hollows

I'm a football coach. I'm not a doctor ... They don't call plays, I don't do surgeries. We have a great deal here. — Bill Belichick

Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery. — Deepak Chopra

A good rule to remember for life is that when it comes to plastic surgery and sushi, never be attracted by a bargain. — Graham Norton

The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage. — William Stewart Halsted

Think about it: Heart disease and diabetes, which account for more deaths in the U.S. and worldwide than everything else combined, are completely preventable by making comprehensive lifestyle changes. Without drugs or surgery. — Dean Ornish

If surgeons drill out or remove too much tissue, especially the turbinates, the nose can’t effectively filter, humidify, clean, or even sense inhaled air. For this small and unfortunate group of patients, each breath comes in too quickly, a hideous condition called empty nose syndrome. — James Nestor

They botched one of the two surgeries and created a hernia. You can't treat chronic pain with surgery. — Eric Berg

One popular new plastic surgery technique is called lip grafting, or 'fat recycling,' wherein fat cells are removed from one part of your body that is too large, such as your buttocks, and injected into your lips. People will then be literally kissing ass. — Dave Barry

My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again. — Natalie Portman

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More Plastic Surgery Quotes

Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest. — Kate Winslet

I am totally against plastic surgery. A lot of people think I have breast implants because I have the biggest boobs in the business. But I was a 34C when I was 17...They stay up when I wear a push-up bra. But if people could see me when I come home and take off my bra, how could they think these are fake? — Tyra Banks

Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century. — Barry Humphries

I did have reconstructive plastic surgery and a tummy tuck. And from hip to hip, there's a very big scar. It looks better than it did... So I say, if you don't like that skin, have it removed. This is my advice: if you're gonna do it - just go for it. — Carnie Wilson

I lent a friend of mine $10,000 for plastic surgery and now I don't know what he looks like. — Emo Philips

I still can't believe that some pseudocritics continue to accuse me of having murdered tango. They have it backward. They should look at me as the saviour of tango. I performed plastic surgery on it. — Astor Piazzolla

Acting is about being real, being honest. — Kate Winslet

If you choose to be Frankenstein with Botox and plastic surgery, you've bought your own private mask. — Frances Conroy

With age comes wisdom. You don't need big boobs to be feminine. Look at Liberace. — Joan Rivers

I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery. — Joan Rivers

I think I'm the only 65-year-old actress in Los Angeles who hasn't had plastic surgery, so somebody's gotta play the old-lady parts! — Jane Elliott

I feel weird if I can't move my face, and that one time I overdid it, I felt trapped in my own skin. — Courteney Cox

Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young. You can fool anyone, apart from the young. The worst are the lip operations. There are people who have it done and I don't recognise them afterwards. They look like they flew through the windscreen during a car accident and were patched up badly afterwards. — Karl Lagerfeld

I don't want plastic surgery or fillers or Botox. — Sofia Vergara

Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young. — Karl Lagerfeld

I haven't had any plastic surgery - despite what people think, this is my nose. I have had Restylane and Botox, but I don't think of that as plastic surgery any more. — Tom Ford

I don't want to fight aging; I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested. — Christine Lahti

My thinking about plastic surgery is this. I haven't had it, but never say never. Because when you do, you are definitely going to go there. — Diane Keaton

I'm not a big fan of plastic surgery. Because it looks like you had plastic surgery. — Norman Reedus

Plastic surgery is distressingly popular and I feel that the fashion industry has killed tens of thousands of women over the years from anorexia. — Nan Goldin

I think everyone is forgetting what plastic surgery is for - if you have a face-eating tumour, lose a breast or are involved in a car accident, then it's a good idea. — Sally Phillips

Clever plastic surgery can restore an appearance of youth, but nothing changes the expression of age and experience in the eyes. — M.C. Beaton

I don't get bothered by people saying what they say. I'm a happy person and I'm happy with my looks. I'm not an insecure person. I believe if somebody chooses plastic surgery it should be for themselves, not for anyone else. — Ashlee Simpson

Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil. — Nawal El Saadawi

I don't have anything to hide. And for the record, I am not against plastic surgery. I believe that any woman that wants to do anything or fix anything that bothers her - if she's doing it for herself - I'm all for it. — NeNe Leakes

If somebody wants to have plastic surgery, more power to them. I think there's a point where you go overboard. — Shannen Doherty

I think that promoting insecurity in the form of plastic surgery is infinitely more harmful than an artistic expression related to body modification. — Lady Gaga

It's tricky to say 'never,' but I will never have plastic surgery. — Sayings

I believe if somebody chooses plastic surgery it should be for themselves, not for anyone else. — Ashlee Simpson

On the red carpet, I saw all these great stories, and I also got to see the plastic surgery up close. — Steven Cojocaru

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