Sex Quotes

"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"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"It's that I'm 39. I feel hot and sexy, actually... I feel it inside myself. I don't feel dried up and tired and no longer interested in sex is what I'm trying to say"

Kyra Sedgwick, Actress

"Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out"

Orlando Bloom, Actor

"Kids. They're not easy. But there has to be some penalty for sex"

Bill Maher, Comedian

"I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex"

Katharine Hepburn, Actress

"Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age"

Katharine Hepburn, Actress

"The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less"

Brendan Behan, Dramatist

"It was a wonderful time to be young. The 1960s didn't end until about 1976. We all believed in Make Love, Not War. We were idealistic innocents, despite the drugs and sex"

Margot Kidder, Actress

"A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all"

Betty Friedan, Activist

"My mother was like a sister to me, only we didn't have sex quite so often"

Emo Philips, Comedian

"Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

"If the Liberals' law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will"

Stockwell Day, Politician

"They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?"

Kanye West, Musician

"Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex"

Pamela Stephenson, Actress

"Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same sex marriages. It has happened in Saskatchewan"

Stockwell Day, Politician

"Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers"

Natalie Portman, Actress

"Nope, no sex scandals yet. But I am open to offers!"

John Cusack, Actor

"Bishop Frederick Henry of Calgary is facing at least two official objections to his public statements along with expensive hearings before the Alberta Human Rights Commission for expressing his biblical views on same sex marriage"

Stockwell Day, Politician

"Managing people's sex lives is something that I don't think is a good role for government"

William Weld, Politician

"A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse"

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Author

"The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity"

James Dickey, Novelist

"Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence"

Natalie Portman, Actress

"A lot of more modern films seem to just be out for violence or sex or what have you, without relating it to what's going within human beings. But every now and then one comes along that does that, and it's a joy"

Kim Hunter, Actress

"It's the teenage and university crowd, so we give them lots of sex jokes and gross humour"

Keenen Ivory Wayans, Comedian

"As the bull market goes on, people who take great risks achieve great rewards, seemingly without punishment. It's like crime without punishment or sex without sin"

Ron Chernow, Author

"There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements"

Norman Mailer, Novelist

"The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test"

Joan Chen, Actress

"We are at a major epoch in human history, which is that we don't need sex to recreate the race. You can have babies without sex. This is the first time in human history that has been true, and it means, for example, we could do some extraordinary things"

David Cronenberg, Director

"It's unfortunate. Title IX is rather simple: don't discriminate on the basis of sex"

Birch Bayh, Politician

"Nah, I've done sex scenes before, you know, like in video"

David Cronenberg, Director

"I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

"The women's movement hasn't changed my sex life. It wouldn't dare"

Zsa Zsa Gabor, Actress

"Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

"Sex is like money; only too much is enough"

John Updike, Novelist

"I know nothing about sex, because I was always married"

Zsa Zsa Gabor, Actress

"For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do, they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities"

John Updike, Novelist

"I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. That's what our purpose is in this business. You're merchandised, you're a product. You're sold and it's based on sex. But that's okay. I think women should be empowered by that, not degraded"

Megan Fox, Actress

"I have the libido of a 15-year-old boy. My sex drive is so high. I'd rather have sex with Brian all the time than leave the house. He doesn't mind"

Megan Fox, Actress

"You always hear actresses talk about how unromantic it is to act a love scene or a sex scene - which it is. You're doing it with all these lights on and cameras flying around and people on the set"

Sheryl Lee, Actor

"Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder about how to account for different kinds of human behaviour"

Marvin Harris, Scientist

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