Greta Scacchi Quotes

I used to cry myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because of the way men leered at and disrespected me.

Men are attracted to youth and beauty; women are attracted to power.

When women wear jeans people are tempted to pay attention to what is beyond it thus forcing them to do undesirable things.

Why do women have to face comments like, 'You are wearing short clothes; you are alluring and inviting men?'

It's difficult for me to trust a woman. Men are attracted to beautiful women. Women are attracted to men who offer security - financial security. And if you have money and you're famous, women find that sexy.

I've always thought that the stereotype of the dirty old man is really the creation of a dirty young man who wants the field to himself.

I've been getting chatted up by men ever since I was 14.

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.

For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.

Yes, Bill Clinton is a big flirt.

Violence against women is real and something I feel passionately about, and the gateway to all that is wolf whistling. It's allowing a man to impose his will on a woman who is just trying to walk down the street and live her life. It's all about unwanted versus wanted attention, and, of course, there's a fine line.

I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.

Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi looks in the mirror and sees a playboy of the old school. And men such as Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Charlie Sheen no doubt look at Berlusconi and think, 'Role model!' Women, of course, know otherwise. They see him as an aging, pathetic buffoon.

There's still a massive inequality between the genders. If you look at the trajectory of a male actor's career, there's no hesitation or hiatus. But women after the age of 35 to 40 are rarely placed in the centre of the story.

I don't find offensive that I'm being labelled a babe by blokes. I'm absolutely flattered.

I don't like the mentality that comes with rich Russian men. Because they have money, they think they can buy a woman - and they do.

We must be very careful when we say that somebody giving you compliments about your looks should be offensive. I think women really should look at why they're being offended by that.

Men are allowed to get older and women are not.

Young women from a very young age are taught that life will be easier if you can just turn on the charming smile and say very little and be complacent and docile and sweet.

Hollywood is a very strong machine that needs, and in... especially with female actors, fresh flesh. It's that cruel. But that's the way it is.

People have preconceptions about women of a certain age.

I feel like women are asked their age more than men.

Women become invisible as they age; men become impotent.

It often means that a woman is hired because she is pretty, regardless of her qualifications; that a woman's job security is eternally dependent on how well she pleases her boss, and he often thinks sexual companionship is part of the job description; and that women are fired because they have aged or they are too independent or they say 'no' to sexual byplay

You get the older version of women that you've played before.