You watch yourself age and it’s hard to feel like a sex symbol.
Being attracted to my own sex was as much part of who I was as being short or blonde or drawn to the library, but I was made to grow up feeling ‘other.’ Most books, films – even advertisements – didn’t reflect how I felt, and I often watched the world from the outside.
I’m not a big fan of trying to be a sex symbol or any of that stuff because I really like the music to speak for itself.
Every time I’ve done comedy in, like, traditional comedy clubs, there’s always these comedians that do really well with audiences but that the other comedians hate because they’re just, you know, doing kind of cheap stuff like dancing around or doing, like, very kind of base sex humor a lot, and stuff like that.
It’s not entrapment. Because the decoys never make the first move. Nor do they raise the issue of having sex. It’s always the potential predator that does that.
For the speedy reader paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex.
Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.
People will always choose more money over more sex.
I never thought that sex was wrong, sinful, dirty. When you take away the thought of things being dirty or forbidden, then you can really enjoy your sensuality.
Sex and drugs were simply not discussed in our culture at that time.
‘Sunset Boulevard’ – the story of Hollywood movies draped on a depressing sex affair – is an uncompromising study of American decadence displaying a sad, worn, methodical beauty few films have had since the late twenties.
If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.
But when I was a teenager, I was in my room learning how to play bass by listening to Rush and the Sex Pistols. I wasn’t reading Karl Marx.
Great sex is wonderful while it’s happening, but who remembers great sex they had in 1983?
Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
If I had my way, I would have sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll at least 4-6 hours a day. So long as there are going to be things in the way of that, we’re going to have a revolution.
I think that the enormous emphasis on violence and sex, and in particular violent sex, may not make rapists of us all, but it predisposes us to accept a kind of world in which these things happen.
A geometry implies the heterogeneity of locus, namely that there is a locus of the Other. Regarding this locus of the Other, of one sex as Other, as absolute Other, what does the most recent development in topology allow us to posit?
In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.
I know I walk a fine line between being a respected actor and being what they call a sex symbol.
We’re warriors, this culture, and we’re very puritanical about sex and very embracing about violence and I don’t know why that is.
I actually think it doesn’t even matter what age you are or what sex – though that does play into it sometimes – you always have to fight in any kind of creative world because nobody knows your own brain and your own creative ideas better than you do.
Sex – the poor man’s polo.
Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.
How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?
Flight attendants all over the world saw ‘Sex and the City.’ Doesn’t matter what country you are in. The flight attendants know Jack Berger.
This country can no longer afford to choose our leaders from a talent pool limited by sex, race, money, powerful fathers and paper degrees. It’s time to take equal pride in breaking all the barriers.
Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.
I really think that people’s right to happiness shouldn’t be dictated by some policymaker in Washington, D.C. I’ve come to know a lot of people that – sexual orientation is such where they’re in love with people from the same sex, and I just don’t think it’s our role in the government to say, ‘No you can’t be married.’
The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say – or their beliefs – or sex.
According to New York publishers, Bill Clinton will get more money for his book than Hillary Clinton got for hers. Well, duh. At least his book has some sex in it.
Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.
Journalists ask me, ‘Why don’t you ever talk about sex in your performances?’ True, I don’t talk about sex – not in my personal life and not in my professional life. This is modesty.
You’ve got to have a sense of humour about sex. When you look at it, it’s all pretty ridiculous, isn’t it?
The era we live in we see child are more advanced then us. And that is why they need knowledge even on sex before they involve themselves in crime because of curiosity to know about sex.
I need sex for a clear complexion, but I’d rather do it for love.
We’ll engage in pretty extreme violence in the world but, you know, the one thing that comes to humans as easily as eating or breathing or sleeping, is sex.
I feel like I’m too old to just have sex. I mean, I want to have sex, but with somebody who really loves me.
We seem to live in an age where we are quietly appalled by the idea of appetites, whether they be for sex, food or diamonds.
The women’s movement hasn’t changed my sex life. It wouldn’t dare.
I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I’ve always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I’d fall in love with a woman. Damn.
I would never know how to sell myself as a sex symbol. That’s not how I’m programmed.
It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life.
When I’m with my friends’ teenage children, I always say, ‘Are your friends having sex yet?’
That whole sex symbol thing I never took seriously to begin with. Thank goodness, or I’d be suffering right now because it’s out of your hands what happens to you with age.
Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.
There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
Masculinity is what you believe it to be. I think masculinity and femininity is something that’s very old-fashioned. There’s a whole new generation of people who aren’t defined by their sex or race or who they like to sleep with.
My son has followed fashion since he was a punk. He and I agree that fashion is about sex.
It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on.
So I think we’re kind of an alternate choice for people who have had it with sex and violence.
There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don’t need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.
Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman’s attention.
Teenagers watch and listen to all kinds of things. It is the nature of being a teenager to seek out intense stuff. Stuff about death and sex and love and fear. Teenagers are the bravest, most curious, most philosophical, most open-minded readers there are, which is why so many less-than-young adults like writing for them.
Thoughts have no sex.
It was a feeling of loyalty to our own sex and an enthusiasm to have every degradation that was put upon our sex removed.
A man who fails is funny… if my sketches teach anything, it is that, for the male, sex is a snare and a delusion. What’s so corrupting about that?
Sex keeps me fit and healthy. What can be better than that? It’s not about crazy diets or gym workouts.
Women are more likely to have sex and fall in love, which can be tough because that’s not the way men work.
Whenever women catfight, men think it’s going to turn to sex.
Most of the sex I’ve seen on the screen looks like an expression of hostility towards sex.
But the point of using the number was to show that sex was a great part of my life as basketball was a great part of my life. That’s the reason why I was single.
Any sex outside of the marriage bond between a man and a woman is violating God’s law.
He allowed us to choreograph the sex scenes.
Chasing the sensation. Whether it was drugs or sex or whatever. Those things had become my main focus in life.
When I moved to Seattle, I was hanging out with kids who had done drugs, had sex a million times. I look at them now and realize their childhood was taken away.
Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.
Well, I thought the Sex Pistols were the cream of the crop. They came in and topped everybody, for sure. They took all the existing strands and made a perfect package out of them.
