Love & Passion Quote by Judge Reinhold

It lands like a classic Reinhold deadpan: a showbiz confession that swerves into self-parody before you can decide whether to blush or laugh. “My first sex scene - and it was with myself” is built as a bait-and-switch. The first half cues the familiar actorly rite of passage, the talk-show anecdote audiences expect: nerves, awkwardness, a co-star, a little scandal. The dash snaps that expectation in half and replaces it with something both absurd and strangely intimate: not sex as romance, not sex as conquest, but sex as staging - and the only available partner is the self.

The specific intent feels comic, but it’s not just a one-liner. It’s a sly jab at how the industry manufactures “first times” as marketable milestones. By making the partner “myself,” Reinhold punctures the macho mythology that often shadows sex-scene stories. The humor is self-deprecating, yet also defensive: if you turn the experience into a joke first, you control the frame. No one else gets to sensationalize it.

Subtextually, it hints at the weird narcissism baked into performance. Actors spend their lives managing their image, their body, their desirability - sometimes literally choreographing intimacy. A “sex scene with myself” reads like the ultimate metaphor for that closed circuit: desire, camera, and ego folded into the same person.

Context matters because Reinhold’s persona has long been the relatable, slightly put-upon guy in glossy, hormonal comedies. The line keeps that brand intact: he’s in the room where sex sells, but he’s still winking at the whole transaction.