"I love everything that's beautiful; a lot of things"
About this Quote
In the context of a mid-century film culture that sold women as surfaces, Andress is both leaning into the expectation and quietly repossessing it. She can afford to praise beauty because she has been conscripted into representing it; at the same time, she's refusing to let "beautiful" stay narrow or moralizing. The line hints at a private corrective: beauty isn't a pedestal, it's a preference, a pleasure, a sensory habit. It also works as self-protection. If you declare yourself a lover of beauty in general, you sidestep the trap of being judged for loving any particular thing too much.
The simplicity is strategic. An actress known for iconic image gives an answer that sounds light, but carries a worldview: desire is not an apology, taste is allowed to be broad, and beauty isn't a cage unless you let other people define its size.
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| Topic | Joy |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Andress, Ursula. (2026, February 16). I love everything that's beautiful; a lot of things. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-love-everything-thats-beautiful-a-lot-of-things-77852/
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Andress, Ursula. "I love everything that's beautiful; a lot of things." FixQuotes. February 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-love-everything-thats-beautiful-a-lot-of-things-77852/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I love everything that's beautiful; a lot of things." FixQuotes, 16 Feb. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-love-everything-thats-beautiful-a-lot-of-things-77852/. Accessed 17 Feb. 2026.









