Quotes About Identity

I'm not a sex symbol. How could I be with these skinny bowlegs?

I have no illusions at all about being a sex symbol. None of my former girlfriends ever thought of me that way, and I don't have any packs of women chasing me down the street like a Brad Pitt or someone like that.

I look at the Star of David as a symbol of righteousness.

I don't think I'm going to be an international sex symbol. I mean, I know I'm not going to be an international sex symbol.

It's not my plan or whatever in my life to be a sex symbol. It never is. You are who you are, but you can't help what you look like. And when you do a film, like for me, it's just not about that. I would prefer to downplay it. I prefer to downplay the sex appeal.

The whole sex symbol or babe thing doesn't bother me.

Rather than a big figure, I guess you could say I'm more of an influential minority symbol.

I have never apologised for my assets or for being a sex symbol.

I was astounded nobody had thought of making a rainbow flag before because it seemed like such an obvious symbol for us.

I would never know how to sell myself as a sex symbol. That's not how I'm programmed.

Just because of 'Rangeela' and 'Daud,' it can't be said that I am a sex symbol.

I'm quite cool about my sex symbol image. It's nothing to be proud of or ashamed of.

After 'Jungle,' people have realized that I'm not just a sex symbol.

I find the whole concept of women screaming at me so odd. It's very flattering, but I don't think I will ever consider myself to be a sex symbol.

I think any girl who comes to Hollywood with sex symbol or bombshell hanging over her has a rough road.

Nothing has been more detrimental to me than to be considered a symbol, because I never stood for any of that... The civil rights movement thought they would do me harm over the years by disassociating themselves from me. Well, nothing in the world was more to my advantage. I was never one of them... I had my own divine mission.

I think the leotard for me became, after I retired, a sort of a symbol of the confines of still fitting into the ballet world in mind and body.

I wouldn't want to be known only as a sex symbol. I wanted to be known as an actress equally or even more so.

When people say, 'You're perceived as a sex symbol,' I love the idea of that because it's so absurd.

The fact that I got famous and became a sex symbol around my normal, frumpy, love-handled self is so gratifying - and, dare I say, culturally gratifying as well.

The 'movement' is paramount, the concept of 'family' is the symbol we wish to project.

If I was a sex symbol, I would be getting laid a lot more than I am now.

I was in Asia and people asked me about being considered sex symbol. I don't know if that's good or not, because where I come from, sex isn't something you're allowed to talk about.

I think it will be helpful to people because I know the expectations that are put on you as a sex symbol, and how Marilyn Monroe suffered and so on, and I was able to get free of that.