Top 100 Quotes About Nudity
#1. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. Everyone knows what a hypocrite is. That's the guy who gripes about the sex, violence and nudity on his VCR.
Zig Ziglar
#6. 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
#7. 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
#9. Nudity is the costume of lovers and corpses.
Mason Cooley
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. I've done nudity. I'm an exhibitionist. It doesn't matter.
John Turturro
#13. Nudity is undignified and an error of taste
Adolf Hitler
#14. Nudity is the uniform of the other side ... nudity is a shroud.
Milan Kundera
#15. Ignoring it makes it irrelevant. No man wants his nudity to be irrelevant.
Karen Marie Moning
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. I love my country, but I believe that we are too quick to censor nudity.
Eva Mendes
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. I've never done any nudity, but I would do basically anything if a role called for it.
Claudia Schiffer
#26. 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
#27. Nudity ... I have to say I will never do it again.
Moira Kelly
#28. Once we are aware that our nudity makes us objects of desire, we become naked.
Chloe Thurlow
#29. I'm finding now more and more that nudity is so rarely serves the story in any film.
Judy Greer
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. Her nudity is her armor. It blinded the drooling fools. They couldn't see anything else while they saw her body.
Brent Weeks
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
Honore De Balzac
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. Nudity, I find, rapidly becomes boring when it is not treated as scandalous.
Marie Brennan
#42. For an Irish-Catholic boy with a nudity hang-up, it was an island of terrible freedom in a sea of No.
John Valentine
#43. 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
#44. I've done nudity in lots of things before. It's something that's never particularly bothered me.
Ewan McGregor
#45. 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
#46. I avoid all the language and nudity and violence and everything. I have enough of that at home.
Tim Conway
#47. 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
#48. It's only in the United States that they make a big deal about nudity.
Christopher Atkins
#49. I want to have a record of your nudity in one of my works of art."
~Larsson TIGER
Pet Torres
#50. I come from a country where you don't wear clothes most of the year. Nudity is the most natural state.
Elle Macpherson
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. I was suddenly conscious of my nudity under my robe as the fabric swished against my bare skin. It felt strangely liberating and slightly naughty.
Valerie Biel
#55. 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
#56. You've asked me out tons of times."
"Not really. I've made inappropriate suggestions and frequently pushed for nudity. But I've never asked you out on a real date.
Richelle Mead
#57. If I were a parent, I would feel like nudity should not be on the back of any magazine. No, it should be on the front.
Jarod Kintz
#58. She had originally agreed to appear naked, but on seeing the cars informed me that she would only appear topless - an interesting logic was at work there.
J.G. Ballard
#59. Nudity is a problem for Americans. It disrupts our social exchange.
Eric Fischl
#61. First off, I think nudity is taken differently in America, though they did make a fuss in England, too.
PJ Harvey
#62. Halfway measures, such as loincloths or fig leaves, remain more titillating than complete nudity.
Paul-Ludwig Landsberg
#63. A thorough inspection of the birthday suit revealed a number of holes.
Les Coleman
#64. 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
#65. For me, nudity and strong language have never been huge loadbearing elements of how I like to tell a story. Graphic images certainly are.
Bryan Fuller
#66. I've never had a problem with nudity, but I don't put it out there without a reason.
Eva Mendes
#67. 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
#68. Strip those clowns down to nudity, shove the chrome where they doo doo be.
Big Pun
#69. I don't want anyone to get seriously hurt. But I do watch awards shows to critique the clothes while I sit around eating chips in my sweat pants and in hopes of seeing some hilarious accidental nudity.
Eliza Coupe
#70. Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional honesty and nudity would burden them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#71. 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
#72. Europeans have a different take [on nudity] than American actors do. They're not quite as hung up.
Dennis Haysbert
#73. Africans had to be taught that nudity is wicked; this was done very cheaply by missionaries.
Bertrand Russell
#74. Why should we think nudity is such a revolting thing in a land where there is so much violence and corruption and racism and hatred? Nudity seems like a welcome relief from all the bullshit in life.
Anthony Kiedis
#75. Well, for me, gratuitous abstinence is just as bad as gratuitous sex.
Bianca Sommerland
#76. Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
John Berger
#77. I just think that people are so weird about nudity and the human body. Sex is not bad, naked bodies are not bad and naked bodies don't always have to be connected to sex.
Emily Browning
#79. Religious strictures are often the source of attitudes toward nudity. Society urges the wearing of clothing partially as a means of controlling the powerful sexual urges that are feared will be released by nudity, causing chaotic behavior.
Patricia Garfield
#80. It's the invention of clothes, not nature, that made "private parts" private.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#81. You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
Simone De Beauvoir
#82. Nudity is natural but not until a person accepts and loves who they are.
Jolene Blalock
#83. The nudity of his words took him by surprised, as if it were Harold himself who was wearing no clothes.
Rachel Joyce
#84. People who think of children's nudity as a tool don't need freedom of expression.
Agnes Chan
#85. 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
#86. If God had meant us to walk around naked, he would never have invented the wicker chair.
Erma Bombeck
#88. God, what if TMZ got hold of the truth about me? What a liar I am, I mean? What kind of role model am I? I make Vanessa Hudgens look like Mother Freaking Teresa. Minus the whole nudity thing. Because I'm not about to take naked photos of myself and send them to my boyfriend.
Meg Cabot
#89. 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
#90. With scripts I've always looked at them and thought about kids, you know? Thought about the world and the impact ... I won't do nudity and I never felt comfortable with that whole idea or things with huge sexual content - not my thing.
Carrie-Anne Moss
#91. I have no problem with nudity. I can look at myself. I like walking around nude. It doesn't bother me. I see all the people walking around nude; it doesn't bother me.
Ursula Andress
#92. Blade shot her a quick glance, his eyes skipping off her nudity, his face heating again. He picked up the dress. "Don't you want to put this on?"
She shot him a disbelieving look. "I'm in the middle of giving birth. I'm not going to put on a damned dress!
T.C. Southwell
#93. 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
#94. I just want to make scary movies," Jerome replied. "With occasional nudity.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#95. I'm not at all interested in doing clothes for movies or stage, in stage dressing or costuming. Nor can I design lingerie, for I never wear any! At one time I used to wear a lot of lingerie but now I'm in a mood of total nudity!
Sonia Rykiel
#96. Raise your hand if you had no idea you'd see so much nudity in one week of jury duty.
Twelve hands flew straight into the air.
And unbelievably, Payton laughed.
Julie James
#97. My issue in the past with nudity was that these scenes had been written solely for box office draw.
Neve Campbell
#98. 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
#99. Friendships were tricky things, especially friendships as old as theirs was. Nudity was nothing more than a collection of hard-earned scars and marks. Love was a given, uncomplicated by sex or vows, but honesty was always waiting there, ready to capsize the steady boat.
Emma Straub
#100. 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
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