The World Motivation
Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.
“Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.”
— Imelda Marcos · Beauty
Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.
You know, not even your British Queen is called just Elizabeth - she's Elizabeth the Second. There's only one Imelda.
People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
We practically own everything in the Philippines.
It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.
That's part of the beauty of being an actress: you get to explore different facets of what it is to be a human being and what it is to explore different personalities, and actually, that's one of the things I love about it.
I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty.
Every day that I live, I try to find the beauty in things.
Appreciate the beauty of this earth, it's wonderful.
My dad was a journalist. One great trip we took was to Israel. We went there and drove through the whole country, and it was pretty incredible. We went to the Philippines and saw the beauty of that country but also what poverty really looks like. That had a profound effect on me.