Gene Vincent Quotes

There is no excuse for making disrespectful and demeaning comments about women.

The industry is quite chauvinistic generally. Expectations of women, girls, what they should look like, how they should be, what they should say, what they should wear, how their hair should be, what colour their skin should be.

But I've lost parts because of my looks. I auditioned to star with Richard Dreyfuss in 'The Buddy System.' The producers said no one would believe he would leave me for another woman. They just couldn't see me with him.

No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.

People only go by looks. If you have big breasts it doesn't mean that you are dumb.

It's strange how men feel they have the right to criticize a woman's appearance to her face.

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.

Men don't make passes at crones with big (rhymes with passes).

In drawing attention to the physical characteristics of women leaders, they can be dismissed as either too pretty or too ugly. The net effect is to prevent women's identification with the issues. If the public women is stigmatized as too 'pretty,' she's a threat, a rival--or simply not serious; if derided as too 'ugly,' one risks tarring oneself with the same brush by identifying oneself with her agenda.

When I wrote 'My Humps,' I said, 'This is the stupidest thing ever,' but in a good way. I always wondered what it must be like to be a girl, always gettin' pulled on. Maybe she's the smartest genius on the planet, but she's rackin' double Ds with a 26-inch waist and a big ol' ass and no one's ever gonna see her like that because that's the way the world is today.

Because I was the blonde, I was promoted as the video vixen.

I don't like actors, I like women.

A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.

The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hearts.

In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying.

When I try to get work in the US all they say is that I need to lose weight - but I bet they never said that to Mae West.

People make such a big deal about how people in bands look, especially if you're a girl.

Britney would make a better prostitute than Christina. She's thicker.

We're in the dark ages if J-Lo can have a music career because of her ass. And let's face it, that's it.

If you talk about an issue, what comes back is a description of what you're wearing. Reporters only want to know how tall you are and if your teeth are capped.

It was not easy to get to where I am. My challenge is to learn to deal with the jokes that are common among men that I heard and continue to hear sometimes among men.

Few people realize what a handicap it is to be what people call a beautiful woman. I'm glad, of course, that I don't look like an unmade bed, but too often, I'm just taken at face value. And there aren't many men who believe a beautiful woman can have any brains.

Film is not a woman's medium. If you weren't the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you.

I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in sports.