Top 47 Sex Scenes Quotes
#1. It's difficult for me to say, but I don't think the sex scenes are particularly erotic.
Mark Rylance
#2. I've done so many sex scenes in my life and it's much easier to do a funny sex scene than a sex scene that is supposed to look like it feels.
Stellan Skarsgard
#3. I have really strong feelings about sex scenes in movies. I care a lot about sexuality and how it's depicted in mainstream media, period, but what I know is movies, and what I find is that they tend to be kind of one-note.
Desiree Akhavan
#4. With sex scenes and intense scenes, in general, a lot of it is preparation before the scenes happen, so that you don't have to worry about it on set.
Vinessa Shaw
#5. Sex scenes are always a little uncomfortable at first.
Dakota Johnson
#6. Every actor pretends that they hate sex scenes, and the truth is that they all love them, and they're lying.
Mindy Kaling
#7. Writers have problems writing sex scenes, because writing one really well is pornography.
Fran Lebowitz
#8. I'd prefer to include sex scenes alongside the adventure scenes and everyday-life scenes, as if they were all part of the same thing. Which of course they are. Sex is not discrete from the rest of our existence.
Alan Moore
#9. The best way of writing sex scenes is to do the first draft, orgasm, and then start editing. You can be objective post-orgasm.
Christos Tsiolkas
#10. Action is pretty boring to do as an actor. Action and sex scenes are silly because it's all faking.
David Duchovny
#11. Ah, Houellebecq. I've only read him in English translations so I'm sure I'm not getting the full greatness of his work, but golly, he writes better sex scenes than anyone else alive.
Chuck Palahniuk
#12. Writing Vampire Erotica is like writing sex scenes for porcupines.
Benjamin R. Smith
#13. If it doesn't have sex scenes in it, I won't do it.
Dakota Johnson
#14. The biggest problem in the fictional treatment of sex is that it's not treated as part of the story but as a pause from the story. The best sex scenes in fiction are the ones that advance the story.
K.M. Soehnlein
#15. 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
#17. I don't even like watching sex scenes in movies. I have a slight prudish side to me.
Portia De Rossi
#18. Sex scenes in books are always like first person, from this male perspective and just about how awesome he is. It feels like such a fantasy.
Joe Meno
#19. Take this. It's one of my gothics. The seventies were, sadly, not the time to include sex scenes of any satisfying nature. When the lights go out, you can imagine the hero and heroine are lying in bed, fully clothed, making shadow puppets on the wall.
Kelley Armstrong
#20. I have even taught classes on writing about sex, and I've looked closely at different writers' sex scenes. On the level of craft I've given it a lot of thought. The pitfalls are simple: It can sound clinical or medical, which isn't right, or pornographic, because the characters disappear.
K.M. Soehnlein
#21. 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
#22. I think it's a blessing that the show [Dracula] is on a network because it forces everyone to use their imaginations and be creative. The power of suggestion comes back. So, in the sex scenes, no one is ever fully naked, but I feel the suggestion is so much sexier.
Oliver Jackson-Cohen
#23. I wanted to shoot the sex scenes unadorned so that the actors could really live in the moment.
Seamus McGarvey
#24. Yes the sex scenes are explicit but we all love the dirty bits!
Airam
#25. My understanding of the way sex scenes work is that you're surrounded by crew, and you're cold, and you have to do it eight times 'cause they didn't get the lighting. It doesn't sound pleasant, but you think that actors actually enjoy it?
Mindy Kaling
#26. If you put your heart into it, you can write 30 sex scenes and have each one be different, and just as exciting as the one before it.
Nadlee Thims
#27. When writing sex scenes, there is often no pleasing anyone, except perhaps the writer herself.
Lynn Coady
#28. Nah, I've done sex scenes before, you know, like in video.
David Cronenberg
#29. If I didn't write sex scenes, all my characters would head to the kitchen and make cups of tea.
Michael Winter
#30. I'm always surprised when actors say they don't like sex scenes. It's like a freebie. It's fun to make out with someone. So yes, thumbs up on that.
Mackenzie Davis
#31. This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren't old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex.
Poppy Z. Brite
#32. Nothing can prep you for eight years of sex scenes in one day.
Morena Baccarin
#33. This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock 'n roll, and if I may say so, I'm pretty good at it.
Jon Bon Jovi
#34. Congress should make it so that all sex scenes in all films should be provided with a screaming baby sound track. That should help take away all the fun and may show a major decrease in unwanted pregnancies without having to provide birth control to anyone.
Heather Chapple
#35. Anyone can write good sex scenes. All you need is some basic knowledge of anatomy, the right vocabulary and some choice reading material. Experience has nothing to do with it.
Claire Kent
#36. No, we didn't shoot ... in the ones that I did there were hardly any sex ... there were suggestions of sex scenes but we never actually shot a sex scene as such.
Val Guest
#37. I'd say without a doubt I've had the most sex scenes in any television show, ever. Last season I did eight sex scenes in one day - I haven't topped that yet.
Julian McMahon
#38. All porn stars on Animal Farm are equal but some porn scenes are more unequal than others.
Brian Spellman
#39. Sex must be mixed with tears, laughter, words, promises, scenes, jealousy, envy, all the spices of fear, foreign travel, new faces, novels, stories, dreams, fantasies, music, dancing, opium, wine.
Anais Nin
#40. The romance stuff is easy. A sex scene ... that's hard, because you don't know what to do. Those scenes are awkward.
John Turturro
#41. Just because the book has sex in it doesn't mean women are only reading it for the sexy bits.
Jenny Trout
#42. It's a good thing, right, when an author gets turned on by the dirty scenes they write?!
Martha Sweeney
#43. No nude scenes. No sex-symbol parts. I want people to recognize me for my work, not just for being pretty.
Robin Wright
#44. Crime scenes of pure sex, thorns on her body, blow-dry.
Laura Gentile
#45. It's funny, when you start talking about primitive scenes, so many people have seen their parents having sex.
Gaspar Noe
#46. I guess the biggest difference from the things I've done in the past is that my work will be more narrative-driven adult films or vignettes, not just "gonzo" scenes, which are straight sex, no storyline.
Sasha Grey
#47. A violent scene is art, as much as a sex scene is art. For me, all the scenes were a challenge.
Adele Exarchopoulos
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