Jeremy Irons Quotes

The fathers, if they got me alone, would try to kiss and fondle me. I hated it.

But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.

We get these overzealous young men and their girlfriends. It's happened occasionally where one of them will lean up against the front of the stage and the guy is behind her, and it starts off as just dancing and then it gets into something more.

I had to be extremely strong to fight off Mr Hitchcock. He was so insistent and obsessive, but I was an extremely strong young woman, and there was no way he was going to get the better of me.

One of the speakers asked how many women had been harassed or abused sexually in their life? There were thousands of women in the audience, and almost every one of them raised her hand.

I absolutely refused to make out with the gorgeous male model.

You don't need a rope to pinch a stranger's butt.

Guys always follow me into the bathroom and ask for pictures and stuff.

When I was younger, of course I had people act inappropriately to me. I've had certain directors yell at me. But I didn't stand for it, and I didn't let it go far enough for it to be in any way abusive to me.

Whether it's Hollywood or Bollywood, sexual harassment is a reality. I've experienced it first-hand, and I know many of my counterparts have as well.

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

Someone who responds to "Please don't grope me" with whining and pouting isn't a friend. He's an asshole and a predator.

But I'm very thankful that no one is slamming my head against the wall anymore.

I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves on children or misuse their authority to impose on children.

Some of the things I've seen a lot of my female-actress friends who are relatively famous receive - I've seen some hideous things. Like some really, really bad things... like, the FBI should be contacted immediately.

You touch me and I'll kick you in the rear.

But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man.

I've had just about everything punched. I've had things grabbed that just shouldn't be grapped.

I was physically abused and I retaliated.

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

She'd hit me before but never over and over and over and over into the head.

I would like to say that what Mel Phillips was doing was not sexual harassment but more sexual abuse of children, because he was doing it in a sexual manner now that I look back on it.

The use of rape or sexual intimidation as a means of punishment or retribution, whether by individuals or by groups, is unacceptable in our view.

Nothing more than institutionalized pedophilia.

Rape is not illegal. It is regulated.