Love & Passion Quote by Oliver Reed

Oliver Reed delivers this like a barroom confession that’s also a dare: crude enough to shock, casual enough to pretend it’s honesty. The first clause is deliberately ugly - “use women as a sex object” - a phrase that sounds less like desire than extraction. Then he tosses in “maybe I’m kinky,” a wink that tries to convert misogyny into eccentricity, as if the problem is taste, not power. It’s a rhetorical sleight of hand: label the offense as personal quirk, and you’ve already softened the judgment.

The “However” is where the line reveals its real strategy. “I like to talk to them as well” is pitched as a humanizing add-on, a small act of courtesy offered as moral evidence. Subtext: don’t call me a brute; I’m a brute with conversational range. It’s the classic mid-century masculine bargain - yes, I objectify, but I’m not a monster, I’m charming. Reed’s screen persona traded on exactly that mix: volatility and charisma, menace buffered by wit. The quote reads like brand maintenance.

Context matters: Reed came up in an era when male celebrities were rewarded for public bad behavior, and the press often treated it as roguish color rather than a belief system. The line is self-aware without being self-critical. It anticipates the accusation, repeats it, and then tries to defuse it with a half-apology disguised as a compliment. The result is a neat little capsule of how “lad” culture learned to launder entitlement through humor.