Rod Steiger Quotes

Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.

I don't want anyone seeing me naked.

I don't like to take my clothes off.

To have all your life's work and to have them along the wall, it's like walking in with no clothes on. It's terrible.

I am unwilling to strip completely before the cameras.

You take off your clothes and you're in bed with somebody, and that is indeed where whatever you've concealed, your particularity, whatever it may be, however encrypted, is going to be found out, and that's what all the shyness is all about and what everybody fears.

Dancing in the strip club, Not the dancing, but the being naked was excruciatingly scary for me.

Oh my God. What in—” I was going to be killed by two generations of beautiful women. While naked. “Mom,” Isabel snapped, interrupting. “Do you mind not staring? It’s totally perv.

In the next minute, I will be entirely naked. In the minute after that, fully dressed.

One man's transparency is another's humiliation.

Everybody asks me what it was like to be in my underwear for my network television debut.

I'm trying my best to keep my private life guarded. It's not easy at all. Non, non, non.

It's awkward: Here you are with most of your clothes off in bed with this person who you've really just met. You're strangers to each other's bodies and you're coming together for the first time in front of all these people.

I'm even embarrassed at times when my friends come upon my pictures.

Nudity is who people are at the most interesting point of the evening, when they take off their protective layer, when no one is watching.

I have this recurring nightmare where I'm giving a speech in front of my old high school classmates, and they start laughing at me, and I look down and realize I'm naked. And a shark.

I don't put myself through that nauseating experience of looking at someone's face while they go through your stuff. Ugh! It's just horrible! It gives me the cringes to even think about it.

I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not.

I actually had an experience where I thought somebody was breaking into my house. That's got to be the most terrified I've ever been in my life. I don't know if that's saying much. The fear, especially as a female in a house by yourself, was horrible.

Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.

Sometimes you feel more naked when you're totally dressed than the other way around.

I would never be on a reality show.

Did I feel naked being naked? Yeah. Totally.

When someone watches us eating, we feel exposed. We might also harbor a suspicion that the person staring wants to steal food from our plate. The taboo, in any case, is long-standing.

My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.