Kevyn Aucoin

“It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it won't make your soul pretty.”

“While traveling around the world, I've had the opportunity to work with every living beauty icon. I've learned to appreciate idiosyncrasy. The fact is, there is really no such thing as 'normal' - everybody's different, and that is the essence of their beauty.”

“Kids threw rocks at me, told me I was ugly and left death threats in my locker.”

“That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves, I could try and find it in me.”

“I made a crash landing here on Earth on February 14, 1962, in the Shreveport Catholic Charities Home for un-wed mothers. The infamous Bonnie and Clyde lost their lives just miles from where I was born. Like outlaws ourselves, my birth mother and I were on the run from the day she found out I was part of her.”

“Beauty has a lot to do with character.”

“Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven.”

“Fear is the most debilitating emotion in the world, and it can keep you from ever truly knowing yourself and others - its adverse effects can no longer be overlooked or underestimated. Fear breeds hatred, and hatred has the power to destroy everything in its path.”

“I spent much of my life hiding.”

“I didn't know what gay was. There was no such thing when I was growing up. I knew I had crushes on boys, but I didn't think there was anything wrong with that until I started to hear about it from the other kids in school.”

“Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom.”

“Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing.”

“I also have this incredible love for women.”

“There are two types of people in the world: people who are passionate about things, and people who've had their passion punched, beaten, or whatever out of them.”