David Shuster Quotes

He was using me. When he cast me in Sideways I was nothing but a vessel.

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.

The biggest crime in Nabokov's 'Lolita' is imposing your own dream upon someone else's reality. Humbert Humbert is blind. He doesn't see Lolita's reality. He doesn't see that Lolita should leave. He only sees Lolita as an extension of his own obsession. This is what a totalitarian state does.

Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which human beings are objects.

Publishing companies are like schoolyard bullies that can't even fight well.

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.

I hate it when people use sex as a weapon against the people who are engaging in it. It's so hypocritical.

Powerlessness also corrupts.

A bully waits until they are in the ascendancy to pounce on people.

A man in a position of power over me used that said power to try and take advantage of me.

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

Fighting means you could lose. Bullying means you can't. A bully wants to beat somebody; he doesn't want to fight somebody.

Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.

Pity is just another form of abuse.

Straight girls like me. They flirt with me to get whatever they want. Of course it works.

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

I've stood up to producers before, and even a director. I saw them being abusive. A lot of people on the set are scared to say stuff when they're not being treated right.

I'm definitely sensitive to the idea of exploitation. You don't want to glamorize certain things.

Conceptually, I always took issue with bullies and those who took advantage of others, whether it was a teacher's cruelty to a student, or a student who picked fights with others.

With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

The law is solely made for the exploitation of those who do not understand it.