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Quotes About Exhibitionism

I don't think that just because you go on stage you are an exhibitionist.
~ Alison Goldfrapp
When you stand up acoustic in front of an audience, you really are a man without any clothes on. And that can be fun - it depends how much of an exhibitionist you are, I suppose. I quite enjoy it.
~ Richard Thompson
Both lyrically and sonically, glam metal is the sensible accompaniment for removing one's pants for money.
~ Chuck Klosterman
It felt beyond strange to be riding topless in broad daylight, but the exhibitionist inside her—inside every submissive—was deeply aroused.
~ Claire Thompson
I had intended to write this book anonymously, using my prison number only. But when the manuscript was completed, I saw that as an anonymous publication it would lose half its value, and that I must have the courage to state my convictions openly. I therefore refrained from deleting any of the passages, in spite of an intense dislike of exhibitionism.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female. The determining male gaze projects its phantasy on to the female form which is styled accordingly. In their traditional exhibitionist role women are simultaneously looked at and displayed, with their appearance coded for strong visual and erotic impact so that they can be said to connote to-be-looked-at-ness.
~ Laura Mulvey
Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.
~ Laurence Olivier
An Australian study entitled 'Who Uses Facebook?' found a significant correlation between the use of Facebook and narcissism. 'Facebook users have higher levels of total narcissism, exhibitionism, and leadership than Facebook nonusers', the study reported. 'In fact, it could be argued that Facebook specifically gratifies the narcissistic individual's need to engage in self-promoting and superficial behaviour.
~ Tim Chester
Authorship is exhibitionism, and readers a species of voyeur.
~ Terri Guillemets
An exhibitionist is nothing without a voyeur.
~ S.A. Sachs
Googie architecture could...be seen in its finest flowering among the essentially homogeneous and standardized enterprises of roadside commercial strips: hot-dog stands in the shape of hot dogs, ice-cream stands in the shape of ice-cream cones. There are obvious examples of virtual sameness trying, by dint of exhibitionism, to appear unique and different from their similar commercial neighbors.
~ Jane Jacobs
I don't like when people seem to put every single thing on and just walk up and down outside waiting to be photographed. I think that's a bit lame.
~ Alexa Chung
I have a problem with the blatant celebrity exhibitionism that happens in this business and being sold purely as a brand.
~ Jason Patric
Exhibitionismul inerent unei marturisiri nu face decat sa agraveze suferinta.
~ Philip Roth
I was just watching baby videos of me and I was obviously an exhibitionist.
~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt
You're kidding? These people live in a glass box with no option to shut the world out? That's kind of—" "Exhibitionist. Yeah. Fishbowl-like." "I was going to say vulnerable," she says softly.
~ Unknown
You go to someone and you think, "I'll tell him this." But why? The impulse is that the telling is going to relieve you. And that's why you feel awful later—you've relieved yourself, and if it truly is tragic and awful, it's not better, it's worse—the exhibitionism inherent to a confession has only made the misery worse.
~ Philip Roth
If you don't stop, I'm going to take you right here, in front of God, Jacob, and the seagulls.
~ Unknown
I've done nudity. I'm an exhibitionist. It doesn't matter.
~ John Turturro
I'm an exhibitionist, I was an exhibitionist as a kid.
~ Dave Van Ronk
Nudity, I find, rapidly becomes boring when it is not treated as scandalous.
~ Marie Brennan
Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.
~ Laurence Olivier
The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.
~ Orson Welles