Helena Bonham Carter Quotes

Obviously, I did a couple of things right on the old casting couch.

The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it.

I can't even begin to tell you how many casting couches I was attacked on. Not just by casting people, but by stars.

The only sexual act that is sinful is the one that uses or abuses.

A lot of directors tend to manipulate actors' vulnerability to get what they want, and that can work.

I don't know how much of the 'casting couch' exists in the industry, as I've not seen it myself. I'm glad that I've not had to.

Information should never be used as a weapon on a team.

But doesn't it seem like Chelsea's sort of being pimped out in some weird sort of way?

I can honestly, and proudly, say that I never was on the casting couch. Oh, of course there have been advances from certain men in the movie industry, but nothing overwhelming.

Jim Bakker came along. He said, Jessica Hahn, listen. You're a virgin. As God as my witness. He said, We need a girl that we can trust.

I met Bill Clinton in 1977 while I was working as a news reporter for KARK-TV in Little Rock, Arkansas. Shortly after we met, we began a sexual relationship that lasted for twelve years.

All fighters are prostitutes and all promoters are pimps.

If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.

I'm not the kind of guy who's taking advantage of my position.

I don't think that sleeping with one of the owners gives you the advantages people think it does.

The daily deluge of tales of lechery and trauma holds a hidden but crucial truism: sexual harassment routinely feeds on income inequality. After all, it's much harder to exploit an equal.

For me, talking about the casting couch in the Malayalam film industry was like calling the sky blue. There is nothing new about calling a spade a spade. My intention was not to create an effect; I just wanted to pluck a few weeds in the system and throw them out.

It's very hard to not give in, to sell your soul: to flatter a more experienced male person of power, a producer or director, in order to get what you want. You feel a pressure to flutter your eyelashes and flirt because you know that will work, and I think it's admirable to not do that.

One of the epidemics in our industry is the abuse of power.

Tanushree Dutta became Miss India as she slept her way to the top.

I don't know how I would react to the casting couch. I'm sure that at that moment, you won't really know what to do. Whatever you do at that moment is instinctive.

Casting couch is not just a man's fault. It is important to say this because we blame the other side always.

I've been propositioned by men who were in a position to cast me. I lost a few roles because I didn't give in.

There is casting couch in the Malayalam industry.

The horrible thing is, as a model, it wasn't that unusual to be in a weird situation where a photographer or someone feels they have a right to your body.