“I stared at her. Maybe I wasn't the brightest guy in the world when it came to girls, but I was pretty sure Rachel had just dumped me, which was lame considering we'd never even been together.”

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

Uptown Girl.
Song lyrics, An Innocent Man (1983)

Source: The Reckoning

Interview for Allure magazine, February 2008
Context: For so long, I didn't play the object of attention or affection. It wasn't until L. A. Story that anyone cast me in a role that had my sexuality as a point of interest or focus or operation. I just wasn't examined in the same way that a 'pretty girl' would be.

Variant: No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.

Source: Someone Like You

Mail On Sunday, September 2008
Carl Barat

As quoted in the article 'Canada dry' in the London Evening Standard (March 11th, 2005)

Source: Out of Sight, Out of Time