Top 100 Nudity's Quotes
#1. It didn't bother me in the slightest and I'm someone who's never done that sort of thing before on stage or screen. It was just a device for her; it wasn't nudity for nudity's sake.
Lara Pulver
#2. I don't believe in nudity for nudity's sake, but it's really beautiful when it's done well, when it's within a story. I'm very comfortable with my body. I grew up mostly in France, where nudity is not taboo.
Leonor Varela
#3. It turns out nudity is not a problem for me. It's one of those things you think about later and say, 'Yeah, I could do this for a living.'
Winter Ave Zoli
#4. I come from a country where you don't wear clothes most of the year. Nudity is the most natural state.
Elle Macpherson
#5. With Hostel II I thought I had a very, very strong female audience so I'm going to make a movie that's going to appeal to them. The guys will love it, they'll have their moments. But there'll be a lot more male nudity in this one. I have a lot of sausage in this one!
Eli Roth
#6. I'm not for gratuitous nudity, but if there's humor, I don't have a problem.
Rebecca Romijn
#7. Sometimes nudity is sexy. Sometimes it's not. Sometimes being clothed is more sexy than being nude.
Helen Mirren
#8. It's funny because I remember when I came to the U.S. with 'Swimming Pool,' the movie did well, and it was great box office for a French movie, but I remember I was a bit upset because all people talked to me about was the nudity.
Ludivine Sagnier
#9. You condition a vulnerable boy at puberty to become aroused by brutality. It's the violence, not the nudity. Frankly, I wouldn't mind if every teenage boy had a subscription to Playboy. They'd be looking at attractive naked female bodies while they masturbated, not eviscerated female bodies.
Park Dietz
#10. There's a big line between beauty and nudity, Alice! A man does not need provocative dressing to see the beauty in a woman.
Farhan Shahjahan
#11. There is nudity, of course striptease is an essential component of burlesque but it's much more complex and intelligent than a display of nudity for nudity itself. And its often laugh-out-loud funny.
Karen Abbott
#12. In the United States of America, we are so liberal-minded on so many different aspects, but for some reason there's always going to be this weird connection with nudity being a bad thing. Americans can be so prude sometimes.
Erin Wasson
#13. I honestly don't understand the big fuss made over nudity and sex in films. It's silly.
Sharon Tate
#14. I've always found it very difficult to understand the laws as far as nudity in America - how some things are pornographic and some things are not pornographic. It's against the law to go topless on the beach, but you can go buy a gun. That just seems so absurd to me.
Elle Macpherson
#15. I think that nudity is beautiful. Sometimes it can be awful, but when it's beautiful? Cinema is the art about reality; it's art from reality. In French we say l'art de la realite. You show reality, so you have to show bodies.
Lea Seydoux
#16. I think women are sexy when they got some clothes on. And if later they take them off then you've triumphed.
Somebody once said it's what you dont see you're interested in, and this is true.
Groucho Marx
#17. There's a limit to my patience with anything that smacks of metaphysics. I squirm at the mention of "mind expansion" or "warm healing energy." I don't like drum circles, public nudity or strangers touching my feet.
Koren Zailckas
#18. I think it's so hypocritical to be so anti-nudity in films, and be so pro-violence. I'd rather see two people making love, than somebody being done in. Or being shot and getting their head blown off.
Eva Mendes
#19. People who think of children's nudity as a tool don't need freedom of expression.
Agnes Chan
#20. It's the invention of clothes, not nature, that made "private parts" private.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#21. It's not that I'm against nudity. I'm German, I'm very open, in Germany they lay in the park naked. It's just the principle.
Claudia Schiffer
#22. It's so much harder to keep your clothes on than take them off in this business. Even in Exotica, they wanted more nudity, but I didn't feel comfortable.
Mia Kirshner
#23. There's a line in one of my dad's novels about the most beautiful parts of the female anatomy being the ones that are the most innocent - the ones that have never been scandalized by nudity.
Matthew Norman
#24. At the time I came along, Hollywood's idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers!
John Hughes
#25. I think as an actor, you're more like a dancer, and you have to use your body. I don't understand all these questions about nudity. It's a nonsense. He's an actor, an artist, so get on with it.
Steve McQueen
#26. Oh, hello, me lovely, we haven't met. Asmodeus, demon extraordinaire, at your service. Any service you may require, especially those that involve nudity and adjoining body parts joining other people's body parts. (Asmodeus)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#27. Woman's nudity is wiser than the philosopher's teachings.
Max Ernst
#28. Well, I had done nudity in one other thing, but nudity for an actress is a very particular thing. It has to do with the material, and making sure it's not gratuitous, that it's done in a way that's shot beautifully, and it's for a reason. And I'd never played a lesbian before.
Laura Prepon
#29. What bothers me is our culture's obsession with nudity. It shouldn't be a big deal, but it is. I think this overemphasis with nudity makes actors nervous. There's the worry about seeing one's body dissected, misrepresented, played and replayed on the Internet.
Rachel McAdams
#30. I wouldn't have done nudity, no. That's not something that I feel particularly comfortable with.
Jennifer Love Hewitt
#31. I don't have a problem with nudity. I never have. I was born naked. I'd like to buried naked. It's a way of life in Australia.
Elle Macpherson
#32. If only my genitals didn't float
When I relaxed in the bath
And we both looked down and we both agreed
It's stupid to be a man
Leonard Cohen
#33. I don't hesitate to do nudity as an actor if it's done well.
John Lithgow
#34. Obviously sex and nudity sells, but that's what people go to cable for but that's not going to happen on network daytime television ... so I think it really is always going to come down to story. How do you make a story interesting enough so people will tune in? That's always going to be it.
Jack Wagner
#35. I play characters who are comfortable naked, but that's something you work up to. I did a play off-Broadway in New York when I was in college. It was full-frontal nudity. It's nerve-racking.
Joe Manganiello
#36. It's something I decided from the very beginning I would never do - nudity.
Claudia Schiffer
#37. So, if they're coming in and having to do scenes that involve nudity or sexuality, in some way, the utmost important thing is that everyone feels comfortable and safe. If there's any gray area, that's going to be a problem.
Michael Sheen
#38. Nudity and sex scenes are two completely different things. Nudity you can kind of get used to, but not when there is movement and relating involved. The sex scenes are very uncomfortable because that's something to be protected, so you have a visceral reaction to not exploit that.
Lucy Lawless
#39. I think nudity is funny, especially when it's inappropriate.
Chelsea Handler
#40. So, what's your style preference? (Grace) For what I have in mind, nudity works best. (Julian)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#41. Male nudity, full-frontal nudity, has always been considered a lot more taboo than female nudity. As far back as I can remember, there's been a double standard between men and women. I think it's time that men get equal time in terms of nudity.
Darren Star
#42. You have to overcome enormous self-consciousness, but nudity is about the strongest thing you can do in an acting performance. It's the most unsettling or the most comic or the most sexual.
John Lithgow
#43. Ari to Fleur:
"I made plans for your glorious self."
"Do they require nudity?"
"Extensive. Prolonged."
Fleur's smile was so wide he thought her jaw must hurt.
Patricia A. Knight
#44. I've never done nudity in my whole career. I certainly don't think now is the time to start. I don't think it's necessary for anything I've done, although I have absolutely no opinions against anyone who feels comfortable doing it.
Sarah Jessica Parker
#45. He does not listen for an answer, but yawns, his face opening lewdly upon regions compared with which nudity becomes a milliner's invention.
Mervyn Peake
#46. No nudity or sex happens at hostess clubs. It's basically like prostitution, but they just hang out with you. I was very confused.
Aziz Ansari
#47. 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.
Mark Roberts
#48. There's the theory that nudity doesn't really make something sexy; the characters and their relationship make it sexy.
Tim Robbins
#49. In England, there are so many TV commercials with nudity in them, and there are so many TV programs that show nudity on a regular basis. It's becoming more of a norm.
Mark Roberts
#50. I didn't feel like a slut, a bad mother, a terrible person. I didn't worry about my nudity or if he liked what I was doing. This shit was natural, like I was born to be in Joe Callahan's bed and it was natural to him too, like Joe Callahan was born to be in me.
Kristen Ashley
#51. I feel the sexiest when I'm by myself, walking around nude. I have this new obsession with nudity, it's really weird. It may sound weird, but I just really love embracing the body.
Ciara
#52. I've done nudity. I'm an exhibitionist. It doesn't matter.
John Turturro
#53. I suppose you've got to look like you're made of steel for nudity. You've got to get some arms on you.
Joe Dempsie
#54. There's something therapeutic about nudity. Clothing is one of the external things about a character. Take away the Gucci or Levi's and we're all the same. But not when the nanny is around. But I will with my wife and kids.
Kevin Bacon
#55. The nudity is down to the individual actor or actress. If they feel comfortable and it's done in a way that they feel comfortable doing, then who am I to say anything?
Nathalie Emmanuel
#56. I played a definite part in it. I guess the things that I played in films and the way the nudity and the love scenes were handled were really different.
Bo Derek
#57. I love my country, but I believe that we are too quick to censor nudity.
Eva Mendes
#58. I didn't grow up in a naked household, but nudity was not a taboo thing. My mother was an artist and there were naked sculptures and paintings all over the place.
Ingrid Michaelson
#59. A mantra like one of those ridiculous self-help hypnosis cds playing in my head on a loop: I am a strong, confident, sexually experienced woman who does not need to feel ashamed of her nudity.
Jessica Gadziala
#60. I'm sure that a veiled arabian woman's exposed toes contains more sex appeal than a western pin-up's total nudity.
Daniel White
#62. Ignoring it makes it irrelevant. No man wants his nudity to be irrelevant.
Karen Marie Moning
#63. Nudity is the uniform of the other side ... nudity is a shroud.
Milan Kundera
#64. Nudity is undignified and an error of taste
Adolf Hitler
#65. I've never done any nudity, but I would do basically anything if a role called for it.
Claudia Schiffer
#66. I really like gratuitous nudity. I hate when people go, 'I'll only do it if it makes sense for the movie'. It never makes sense. So I like it - the more gratuitous the better.
David Duchovny
#67. I don't think they're gratuitous with the nudity on 'Game of Thrones.' It's very much part of the world. There's a lot of it, but that's the world they come from. It never is there to distract from the scene or the actors or story.
Neil Marshall
#68. Nudity is the costume of lovers and corpses.
Mason Cooley
#70. I am a man of many talents." I grinned, arranged my plate on the raised surface. "And apparently some of them don't require nudity." "Har-har.
Chloe Neill
#71. The risk for me has to do with the nudity aspects. I'm an American actress in mainstream movies, and I would like to always be able to do them. For some reason, nudity is perceived differently here than it is elsewhere, and I didn't want to lose any American audience that I was building.
Amanda Seyfried
#72. Everyone knows what a hypocrite is. That's the guy who gripes about the sex, violence and nudity on his VCR.
Zig Ziglar
#73. 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
#74. Always ask for what you want, because the worst thing that can happen is embarrassment but the best thing that can happen is nudity.
Cassandra Clare
#76. Then she looked at the man on the tree and she smiled wryly. "They just aren't as interesting naked," she said. "It's the unwrapping that's half the fun. Like with gifts, and eggs.
Neil Gaiman
#78. It's only in the United States that they make a big deal about nudity.
Christopher Atkins
#79. And once we reach the city, my stylist will dictate my look for the opening ceremonies tonight anyway. I just hope I get one who doesn't think nudity is the last word in fashion.
Suzanne Collins
#80. I avoid all the language and nudity and violence and everything. I have enough of that at home.
Tim Conway
#81. Nudity was an inconvenient but unavoidable part of pack life. We'd all thought nothing of it before Leah came along. Then it got awkward.
Stephenie Meyer
#82. I've done nudity in lots of things before. It's something that's never particularly bothered me.
Ewan McGregor
#83. I always thought, because America is supposed to be the land of the free, nudity would be part of the norm over there, but it isn't. It's surprising.
Mark Roberts
#84. For an Irish-Catholic boy with a nudity hang-up, it was an island of terrible freedom in a sea of No.
John Valentine
#85. Nudity, I find, rapidly becomes boring when it is not treated as scandalous.
Marie Brennan
#86. In some ways the nudity really makes people feel more uncomfortable because it's not nudity that is just making bodies look like sexy little pieces of body parts stuck together. It's much more blunt and real and there is not a sexy soundtrack behind it all.
Marielle Heller
#87. The problem with our society is that our values aren't in the right place. There's an awful lot of bleeding and naked bodies on prime-time networks, but not nearly enough cable television on public programming.
Bauvard
#88. I wouldn't do nudity in films. For me, personally ... To act with my clothes on is a performance; to act with my clothes off is a documentary.
Julia Roberts
#89. I want to have a record of your nudity in one of my works of art."
~Larsson TIGER
Pet Torres
#90. A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
Honore De Balzac
#91. I did some artistic nudes when I was I 8 with a French-Canadian photographer while I was modeling. They were beautiful shots, and they were not about nudity.
Lexa Doig
#92. I suddenly realize that I'm naked, which shouldn't bother me since it's the phone, but for some reason it does.
"How's it hanging?" Kyra asks and now I think I'm blushing. It's just an expression, but jeez!
Barry Lyga
#93. In my family nudity just doesn't exist; I'm pretty sure my parents were both born fully clothed and still shower that way.
Huston Piner
#94. Her nudity is her armor. It blinded the drooling fools. They couldn't see anything else while they saw her body.
Brent Weeks
#95. If I was on Game of Thrones, I think the nudity and sex questions would probably get irritating, but this is a show about sex.
Lizzy Caplan
#96. There are one hundred and ninety-three living species of monkeys and apes. One hundred and ninety-two of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape self-named Homo sapiens. The zoologist now has to start making comparisons. Where else is nudity at a premium.
Desmond Morris
#97. I'm finding now more and more that nudity is so rarely serves the story in any film.
Judy Greer
#98. Once we are aware that our nudity makes us objects of desire, we become naked.
Chloe Thurlow
#99. Nudity ... I have to say I will never do it again.
Moira Kelly
#100. The link between nudity and sexuality is a modern invention. If there are no mysteries, there are no secrets, no shame when the time comes for him to Change. Our exterior bodies are borrowed treasures.
E.A. Copen
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