Rachel Weisz Quotes

Sometimes a woman's looks or sensuality are too readily wrapped up in their power.

I think trying too hard to be sexy is the worst thing in the world a woman can do.

When I wrote 'My Humps,' I said, 'This is the stupidest thing ever,' but in a good way. I always wondered what it must be like to be a girl, always gettin' pulled on. Maybe she's the smartest genius on the planet, but she's rackin' double Ds with a 26-inch waist and a big ol' ass and no one's ever gonna see her like that because that's the way the world is today.

Objectivity is almost a choice you make. As a burlesque performer, I didn't choose to be objectified.

And there is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean.

I look at Jessica Alba and think she's got a great body. I think that's what women are supposed to look like.

I dress for women and I undress for men.

Age brings a freedom. When you're young, you're much more subject to the idea of what feminine is or how you should look or how you should behave.

Certainly a woman should never disguise the fact that she is a woman. A woman's body is very beautiful.

When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think it's a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society.

There's a certain freedom that comes when people don't expect you to be sexy.

I have no hips, and I feel like my body's like a teenage boy's. But I can have the hair long, put on makeup, wear a dress, and do the exact opposite as well.

I always joke that I'm a feminist with a boob job.

Whatever character I play, I want to inspire. I don't want to just be the girlfriend or be the wife.

And she's feeling like her worth is between her legs.

A woman can do anything. She can be traditionally feminine and that's all right; she can work, she can stay at home; she can be aggressive; she can be passive; she can be any way she wants with a man. But whenever there are the kinds of choices there are today, unless you have some solid base, life can be frightening.

A lady I will be, but a man's accessory, his handbag, no thank you. I will not be someone's ornament. I will not just be someone's honey, baby, sweetheart.

The notion that Playboy turns women into sex objects is ridiculous. Women are sex objects. If women weren't sex objects, there wouldn't be another generation. It's the attraction between the sexes that makes the world go 'round. That's why women wear lipstick and short skirts.

I'm doing my bit for the women's movement. The women have always been naked in movies, and now I'm just desperate to take my clothes off as much as possible.

I told my girls, 'Look at Rihanna: She's one of the biggest pop stars in the world. She's really famous, really powerful, really rich. Yet in every single video she can only wear panties. Poor Rhianna! We'll know when she is properly powerful and successful when we see her in a lovely cardigan.'

I could never be a woman, 'cause I'd just stay home and play with my breasts all day.

We are women. We are attractive. We have great bodies. You can't escape that fact, so why not use it to our advantage? If sex sells, I'm all for it.

The Olinka girls do not believe girls should be educated. When I asked a mother why she thought this, she said: A girl is nothing to herself; only to her husband can she become something. What can she become? I asked. Why, she said, the mother of his children. But I am not the mother of anybody's children, I said, and I am something.

I came out of the womb waving red lipstick.

Some girls are taught to be sexy.