Nudity Quotes · Page 9

“Cioran once said that “one touch of clearsightedness reduces us to our primary state: nakedness.”

— Rabih Alameddine

Doffing the ego's safe glory, he finds his naked reality.

— Dag Hammarskjold

We all came into this world naked. The rest is all drag.

— RuPaul

Sometimes nudity is sexy. Sometimes it's not. Sometimes being clothed is more sexy than being nude.

— Helen Mirren

[The US is] naked, absolutely nude, to attack [by the Soviets].

— Dan Quayle

Woman's nudity is wiser than the philosopher's teachings.

— Max Ernst

Everyone is a potential naked slave to you once you become a trainer.

— Anne Rice

Women are legally allowed to be topless in New York, Ohio, Texas as well as Maine.

— Anonymous

I avoided nudity unless a film couldn't be told without those scenes. If you look at my films, few of them have…

— Greta Scacchi

I certainly am not doing nudity because I think lightly of it - I don't think it's something that one should just…

— Morena Baccarin

From the American newspapers you'd think America was populated solely by naked women and cinema stars.

— Nancy Astor

Her nudity is her armor. It blinded the drooling fools. They couldn't see anything else while they saw her body.

— Brent Weeks

“For an Irish-Catholic boy with a nudity hang-up, it was an island of terrible freedom in a sea of "No.”

— John Valentine

The body is an actor's tool, like the face, malleable. I never thought that being naked was immoral or outrageous.

— Emmanuelle Beart

Oh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper - both of us -…

— Arthur Rimbaud

I have no problem with nudity. I can look at myself. I like walking around nude. It doesn't bother me. I see…

— Ursula Andress

To be sure an European woman would blush to her fingers' ends at the very idea of appearing publicly stark naked; but…

— John Gabriel Stedman

It has to be absolutely believable. It's also going between images and scenes with nudity and sexuality that would be seen, in…

— Michael Sheen

“I know our nakedness means something. I know our nakedness is as much a form of trust as it a form of…

— David Levithan

If we are to understand the human condition, and if we are to accept ourselves in all the complexity, self-doubt, extravagance of…

— May Sarton

I think it's important to sort of normalize male nudity on screen, because women are always naked. And none of the male…

— Eliza Hittman

One of the great things about female nudity is that at least they have the comfort of knowing that men have all…

— Jason Segel

“The good news was that we’d found Santa. The bad news was that he was floating in a giant tube of clear…

— Phillip Andrew Bennett Low

I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body,…

— Shelley Winters

“In the sallow afternoon, I watched her get dressed.”

— Kien Nguyen

Go then, a starveling girl With no perfume or pearls, Only your nudity O my beauty!

— Charles Baudelaire

“Our nudity becomes a true prayer as we “exhibit”5 our bodies as “holy and pleasing to God.”6”

— Jim C. Cunningham

The undressed is vulgar; the nude is pure, and the well-dressed tainted.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I feel that nudity is sort of what we do as actors.

— Katherine Waterston

I'm not for gratuitous nudity, but if there's humor, I don't have a problem.

— Rebecca Romijn

Naked we came forth and naked we shall go from this world. Everything is a gift. We own nothing.

— Joel Randymar

A naked person is one whom even a thousand people cannot undress.

— Vikrant Parsai

I've never had a problem with nudity, but I don't put it out there without a reason.

— Eva Mendes

I don't know if you want to see the Everybody Loves Raymond guy in a nude scene.

— Ray Romano

Of course WE never had to do nude scenes. I'm glad, too, because I'm susceptible to pneumonia.

— Irene Dunne

In India, people have narrow-minded views about nudity and boldness.

— Pooja Bedi

Nudity isn't something people should take offense to.

— Emily Ratajkowski

I've never done any nudity, but I would do basically anything if a role called for it.

— Claudia Schiffer

I avoid all the language and nudity and violence and everything. I have enough of that at home.

— Tim Conway

Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.

— John Updike