"My goal was always to be recognized as a good actor but no one was interested in that, simply because society just wants to warm towards your appearance. This is the great blemish of society"
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The line also carries the particular frustration of a 1990s and early-2000s breakout, when celebrity culture hardened into an image economy turbocharged by tabloids and glossy profiles. Law became a face that could be marketed faster than his craft could be argued for, and the “good actor” aspiration reads like a demand to be judged on labor rather than aura. It’s not just vanity; it’s about agency. If you’re packaged as a look, you’re always on the verge of being replaceable by another look.
Calling it “the great blemish of society” widens the target beyond Hollywood, but the phrasing is telling: “blemish” implies something persistent, even intimate, like a stain you can’t scrub out. The subtext isn’t that beauty is bad; it’s that superficial consensus is lazy, and laziness becomes morality when it’s mistaken for taste. Law’s sting is the recognition that admiration can be a kind of dismissal.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Law, Jude. (2026, January 16). My goal was always to be recognized as a good actor but no one was interested in that, simply because society just wants to warm towards your appearance. This is the great blemish of society. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/my-goal-was-always-to-be-recognized-as-a-good-94583/
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Law, Jude. "My goal was always to be recognized as a good actor but no one was interested in that, simply because society just wants to warm towards your appearance. This is the great blemish of society." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/my-goal-was-always-to-be-recognized-as-a-good-94583/.
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"My goal was always to be recognized as a good actor but no one was interested in that, simply because society just wants to warm towards your appearance. This is the great blemish of society." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/my-goal-was-always-to-be-recognized-as-a-good-94583/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.




