I can’t be described as a sex symbol; I think it’s ridiculous.
It was said that Chile was not ready to vote for a woman, it was traditionally a sexist country. In the end, the reverse happened: the fact of being a woman became a symbol of the process of cultural change the country was undergoing.
Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.
The Christian Bible is a symbolic book, not a literal one. The one Christians know as Jesus was actually a symbol for the sun. Ancient sun worshippers believed the sun died at the end of the winter solstice and then three days later it would be reborn at the start of its cycle – December 25.
When Seoul hosted the Games in 1988, it became a symbol of the Asian Tigers’ ascent onto the world stage. In 1992, the Barcelona Olympics represented the unification of Europe. And when Rio plays host in 2016, it will reinforce the growing importance of Brazil and Latin America as a whole.
In many ways, Tucker Carlson’s a better symbol of the pathetic state of what passes for conservative journalism than even Glenn Beck or the late Andrew Breitbart, to name two of his contemporaries with a much larger following.
A lot of hip-hop artists wear fur, and they think it’s a status symbol. That doesn’t register for me; I just see dead animals.
Spider-Man has always been a symbol of goodness and doing the right thing and looking after your fellow man.
What’s beautiful about Godzilla is, of course, it’s in every way a symbol of Japan dealing with the aftermath of the atomic bombs being dropped on them, and their ideas of how they’re affected by it.
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable.
I have the all-seeing eye of Horus on the back of my arm, which is a symbol of protection; it watches my back.
Caterpillar has become a symbol of the growing divergence in corporate America between profits and wages.
Mick Jagger, his face was very new. It became a sex symbol.
The raised arm and the clenched hand was a symbol of unity with the fingers coming together and a symbol of strength. It was never – I don’t believe it was ever meant as a threatening gesture.
I heard one time that the Superman glyph is the second or third most recognizable symbol on Earth after the Christian cross.
Because so many voters happen to be illiterate, India invented the party symbol, so that voters who could not read the name of their candidate could vote for him or her anyway by recognizing the symbol under which they campaigned.
God bless America – what other civilization would give Patrick Dempsey another shot to rule as a sex symbol, twenty years after ‘Meatballs III: Summer Job?’ His reign as Dr. McDreamy on ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ is proof that there’s nothing we love more than giving Eighties celebs a heartwarming second stab at life.
For me, I can’t play a metaphor or a symbol.
The olive tree is a tree full of health. It is a symbol of eternity. Of all things, it has peace attached to it.
I love Damien Hirst. I respect his work a great deal, and I am happy that the polka dots I started using have become a symbol of love and peace around the world with everybody joining hands to use them in this way.
Yemen is a symbol of our continued military hubris in the Middle East – an addiction Obama was supposed to cure but didn’t.
Seed investing is the status symbol of Silicon Valley. Most people don’t want Ferraris, they want a winning seed investment.
I felt like I was in the wrong body, especially when you’re considered a sex symbol.
Every phenomenon of nature was a word, – the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas.
I have never apologised for my assets or for being a sex symbol.
My mother began her political journey as a symbol of hope and resistance to the repressive, regressive, Islamist regime of General Ziaul Haq.
Diamonds have an image of purity and light. They are given as a pledge of love and worn as a symbol of commitment.
I think of myself as an actor first, not a sex symbol. Do I think I’m sexy? No, that’s someone else’s judgment, and I honestly don’t think you can try to be sexy and really succeed.
The world’s central banks and the International Monetary Fund still have vaults full of bullion, even though currencies are no longer backed by gold. Governments hold on to it as a kind of magic symbol, a way of reassuring people that their money is real.
I have made it a point to reach out to the masses personally – so I am there as a symbol for the masses.
For me, I want a president who is more than a symbol, someone who has ideas that I align with.
It’s interesting when you’re in your thirties and you’re not the same pretty boy that you were when you were 21. I think people’s anger at themselves getting older is projected on to you because you become a symbol of that.
But, in real life, I’m not a sex symbol. I’m popular with female viewers, but television is fantasy land. People watching don’t see the real person; they see a romanticised image.
If I wake up one day and people tell me I’m not sexy, I’m not going to stop making good music and having fun. That ‘sex symbol’ thing is typically part of being in the limelight. You better be very talented in your music, but it’s good to be nice to look at, I guess.
Sex appeal is a good thing for commercial cinema. Though I can’t sit at home and consider myself a sex symbol, it is for people to do so. I want to be known as an interesting actor.
Silicon Valley is actually a prime target for an ICBM missile strike. It occurred to me as I has touring Apple Park that if I was concerned about Americans’ safety and the symbol of America’s future I would think that those is Silicon Valley as the most vulnerable. That’s where you would be attacking the future economy.
I don’t want to be known as a sex symbol. There’s a great stigma that goes with that tag. I want to be a Sam Elliott.
What better symbol of unity, what better symbol of growth, than to have Mike Espy in the United States Senate.
A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it.
I think, in many people’s minds, the Confederate battle flag is not only a memorial to our ancestors, which is perfectly OK, but also a symbol of white superiority and an inclination for people to believe that even slavery would’ve been OK.
An owl is traditionally a symbol of wisdom, so we are neither doves nor hawks but owls, and we are vigilant when others are resting.
I don’t think that I am a sex symbol, although it’s very flattering.
It’s not my plan or whatever in my life to be a sex symbol. It never is. You are who you are, but you can’t help what you look like. And when you do a film, like for me, it’s just not about that. I would prefer to downplay it. I prefer to downplay the sex appeal.
I think the leotard for me became, after I retired, a sort of a symbol of the confines of still fitting into the ballet world in mind and body.
It’s rather amusing at my advanced age to become a sex symbol.
Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol: the printed book.
An Oscar is a symbol that is known in every corner of the world.
America is a symbol of freedom – it’s a symbol of democracy – and if that is threatened, we have to take this platform and use it to be a voice for the voiceless.
When we talk about Oscars, it’s almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that symbol. So, a movie like ‘The Artist’ that costs $14 million, has to go out and compete with movies that cost $140 million. How does David deal with Goliath?
Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.
Share your smile with the world. It’s a symbol of friendship and peace.
What does it mean when I wear something that makes me look like a Disney Princess? Versus something that’s like ‘ooh, maybe Kiki Layne can be a sex symbol.’ Because these are things that, sometimes dark skin actors with natural hair, we don’t get put into those types of conversations.
Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it’s looks, most women know otherwise.
If the person who can effectively sanction ill-conceived wars can play the electric guitar, which is a symbol of rebellion, then that whole worldview becomes confused.
Al-Aksa is a religious and national symbol.
There is a lot of contradictions of mermaids as a symbol. I’m always interested in contradictions.
I didn’t want to be a sex symbol. That was perhaps my mistake, but you can’t really change who you are.
My parents were no ordinary people. My mother turned Gandhian, and my father was a staunch communist. They named me after the great saint as a symbol of communal harmony.
