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Daily Inspiration Quote by Mark Roberts

"Nudity, in the right way, can enhance a film or a TV program or a TV commercial. If it's done tastefully, it can make it more of an interesting product"

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Roberts is making a salesman’s argument in the gentle language of an actor who’s spent time inside the machine: nudity isn’t inherently transgressive, it’s a tool. The phrasing does a lot of quiet work. “In the right way” and “tastefully” aren’t artistic standards so much as permission slips, coded assurances to gatekeepers and audiences that the body can be shown without triggering the cultural tripwires of porn, exploitation, or “trash.” He’s not defending nudity as liberation; he’s defending it as craft and commerce.

The real tell is the slippery scope: film, TV program, TV commercial. When you lump art and advertising together, you reveal the industry logic underneath. Nudity “enhance[s]” and makes the “product” more “interesting” - the language of value-add, not vulnerability. Roberts is normalizing the idea that desire can be packaged, regulated, and sold across formats, with “taste” functioning as a brand safety filter. It’s also a subtle repositioning of responsibility: if nudity offends, the problem wasn’t nudity, it was execution. Blame the chef, not the ingredient.

Context matters here: Roberts’ career sat in a mid-century entertainment culture that policed “decency” while profiting from titillation. His quote lands in that familiar American compromise - moral caution draped over market appetite. The subtext is pragmatic, even cynical: audiences want the charge; institutions want plausible deniability. “Taste” becomes the fig leaf that lets everyone pretend it’s about aesthetics when it’s often about attention.

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Roberts, Mark. (2026, February 16). Nudity, in the right way, can enhance a film or a TV program or a TV commercial. If it's done tastefully, it can make it more of an interesting product. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/nudity-in-the-right-way-can-enhance-a-film-or-a-148994/

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Roberts, Mark. "Nudity, in the right way, can enhance a film or a TV program or a TV commercial. If it's done tastefully, it can make it more of an interesting product." FixQuotes. February 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/nudity-in-the-right-way-can-enhance-a-film-or-a-148994/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Nudity, in the right way, can enhance a film or a TV program or a TV commercial. If it's done tastefully, it can make it more of an interesting product." FixQuotes, 16 Feb. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/nudity-in-the-right-way-can-enhance-a-film-or-a-148994/. Accessed 25 Feb. 2026.

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Mark Roberts (June 9, 1921 - January 5, 2006) was a Actor from USA.

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