Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It’s the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
I find that people in the food world are amazingly willing to talk about what they are doing, even when those things are quasi-legal or taboo.
Male nudity, full-frontal nudity, has always been considered a lot more taboo than female nudity. As far back as I can remember, there’s been a double standard between men and women. I think it’s time that men get equal time in terms of nudity.
I think there’s a lot of taboos in hip-hop that people try and stay away from. I think a big one is, people are afraid to speak about God to a certain extent, and I think if you’re not free to speak about God, then you’re not free.
In Arab Islamic society, it is traditionally taboo to criticize the lifestyle or personal philosophy of any practicing Muslim.
Therapy shouldn’t be taboo, if it’s going to clear your head.
A woman going out with a younger man feels like the last taboo.
The truth is I never think of any subject as taboo.
I was drawn to people that were expressing feeling because that was what was taboo in my family, expressing feeling. And that was what I was made of.
I love Cillian Murphy’s character in ‘Peaky Blinders’ and Tom Hardy’s in ‘Taboo’ – theses are characters that, as audience members, we follow along with and root for. But our own morality is tested throughout that journey, because these characters ride a thin line between morality and amorality.
Today’s generation likes stand-up comedies in which the performers give their take on a number of subjects. Some of them are a taboo, but youngsters enjoy them. However, when we act in a drama, what is uppermost on our mind is the people’s perceptions and opinions.
I always describe race as the final taboo in American theatre. There’s a real reluctance to have that conversation in an open, honest way on the stage.
The world of football has changed. ‘We’re going to start a freshman quarterback!’ ‘Oooh really?!’ That was taboo. It’s not a shock anymore.
Every culture is different in terms of what is taboo and what is acceptable. I grew up in Singapore, where people are very mindful of that. One can see that as restriction or as consideration for a fellow person living within a shared environment.
I’ve done Graham Norton’s show three times now. He tackles taboos and subject matter that wouldn’t make it past the censors in the States.
Being gay is no longer a taboo subject in Germany.
I don’t believe in nudity for nudity’s sake, but it’s really beautiful when it’s done well, when it’s within a story. I’m very comfortable with my body. I grew up mostly in France, where nudity is not taboo.
I’m not uncomfortable around guns – I’ve hunted for most of my life – but bringing them on stories is considered taboo.
I’ve always been attracted to things that are taboo. I’ve never been afraid to go to that dark place.
I’m glad I’ve established this as my zone: ‘the taboo breaker.’
Folklore provides a socially sanctioned outlet for the discussion of the forbidden and taboo.
I think that drag, being mainstream, it’s such a wonderful thing because even my sister, years ago, they thought it was so taboo and didn’t understand it, or maybe they thought, ‘Justin, do you want to be a woman?’ and I’m like, ‘No, Alyssa’s my character.’
Not taboo – it’s just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd – they’re movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting.
Mentioning the word ‘menstruation’ has always been a taboo in India. People always shy away from talking about menstruation hygiene, and the awareness about the topic is very dismal.
Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman’s body and of female sexuality.
Isn’t privacy about keeping taboos in their place?
There are certain values that, in my opinion, television has lost – various moral lines. How far you go in, say, revealing what people get up to on reality TV, and also graphic violence and swearing – the taboo of various swear-words is no longer there. It’s worrying.
It’s a taboo that comes back over and over, to suggest that women can feel divided – that you can love your child and want to do everything for it, and at the same time want to put it away from you and reclaim something of yourself.
The notion of what is public and what is private has been dissolved. My children see documentaries; they see Instagram. Everyone is very open: it has become less taboo to expose lives.
I don’t know why it’s still a taboo to be a feminist.
Some people have a taboo about doing advertising in the States. You know, where they kind of make their bread and butter. But to me, that’s crazy.
I was totally surprised by the spread of the legalization of same-sex marriage. In just my lifetime we have gone from a taboo to even talk about homosexuality, to the sanction by governments of homosexual marriage. Few such large social considerations have ever before been turned over in such a short time.
To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it’s also to feel, quite powerfully, that you’re not allowed to descend into the deepest fathom of your grief – that to do so would be taboo somehow.
The taboo regarding menstruation exists across the world, even among the educated.
I always thought of vampires, especially the young-adult ones, as a metaphor for sex – sucking blood, forbidden, taboo. I think they just ooze sex. Vampires are all the big themes in life in one attractive, bloodsucking package.
There’s this huge taboo around talking about money that we have as a society.
