Abhay Deol Quotes

Most of the women in film are there to be beautiful to the man.

I have four daughters. A lot of the time, I don't allow myself to be in projects that objectify women.

There's nothing wrong with looking at a woman's kneecaps.

We know in our society, women are valued for their sexual desirability and not necessarily for what they have to say.

The roles I used to be cast for were typically objectified women, so I was always being shown or spoken about through the lens of the guy.

I think that idea of 'because I'm sexy, I'm a feminist' is kind of immature. But as long as women think being sexy is what makes them beautiful and powerful... then it will continue.

I'm so aware how often women's bodies are objectified on film.

Women are inherently told their bodies are objects, so that's how we treat them.

I think we're still struggling to find a way of depicting women that doesn't objectify them.

I think it was Elisabeth Shue who said that if you start a movie with a woman seen through a man's eyes, that woman is objectified by him throughout.

I see explicit covers on magazines, and they're getting even more explicit, and it's like, Are women being empowered, or is this just what sells magazines? Are they feeling pressured, or have they really come into themselves and are saying, 'I am woman, hear me roar?'

I don't have a problem with being a woman. Women's bodies are so beautiful.

I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. That's what our purpose is in this business. You're merchandised, you're a product. You're sold and it's based on sex. But that's okay. I think women should be empowered by that, not degraded.

For a while, I was nervous about portraying women because of the objectification that automatically comes with it, whether the artist intends or not.

For things to have value in man's world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man's oldest and most constant commodity is woman.

It would have been very easy for me to put on a little tight skirt and go out and try what I always call the 'Barbie doll' roles.

These women whose antics we smirk at good-naturedly in the pap-traps put themselves out there at least partly on their beauty; they are in showbiz, and showing what they've got is part of their business as much as it is for male show-ponies from the Chippendales to George Clooney.

I don't like how women's bodies are Page 3 news. I just don't think that's big news. Women's bodies are women's bodies, and that's that. And I love to see beautiful - the female form in great art and great photography.

I'm not a type of feminist who is afraid to be sexy.

It gets quite difficult for me when I listen to pop music. I don't often understand the words, but when someone translates them to me, I think, 'What is this song representing? That women are just there to be treated like objects?'

You cannot separate sexuality from cheerleading. It is inherently what it is - growing up with the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders and all of that stuff.

I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object.

We need to stop objectifying our women in what we call our second religion... Our films. And our TV shows.

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

I love strong women in films that are allowed to play women and not male fantasies.