Jules Verne Quotes

At my age, I only travel business class because I just don't bend anymore; my body can't cope with it.

Often in my game as an actor, someone else pays for your travel and there's nothing like being able to lie flat on a flight home from L.A.

I am far more pragmatic than the stereotype of the sex permits.

We toured the world, all over Europe and to the Far East and Australia.

They always said to me that I needed to be more feminine. I think it's so wrong. Being boisterous doesn't mean you are not feminine.

Being good at fashion and beauty and girly stuff has been such a point of insecurity for me; I'm not good at coming up with jokes that make fun of other people for that, because I don't feel like I have a mastery of it myself.

I always take abroad with me one really good soft pillow--to me it makes all the difference between comfort and misery.

I became a model to see the world, to make enough money to travel and experience other cultures.

One of the main problems of our time is that men are deprived of their human qualities that are wrongly called feminine, and women are deprived of their human qualities that are wrongly called masculine.

You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women.

The way the world sees women vs. men is a subject that really interests me.

The great fault in women is to desire to be like men.

Those that think my clothes are androgynous also still believe that women should look like Barbie dolls. That's precisely the problem, the deep-rooted assumptions about what is feminine.

Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.

I don't know why the players make such a big fuss about sitting in the first class section of the plane. Does that mean they'll get there faster?

Hey, people who travel with their bed pillow. You look insane.

He was the most deliberate person in the world, yet always reached his destination at the exact moment. As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme. Around the world in eighty days

I have always disliked being a man. The whole idea of manhood in America is pitiful, in my opinion. This version of masculinity is a little like having to wear an ill-fitting coat for one's entire life (by contrast, I imagine femininity to be an oppressive sense of nakedness).

As a model, you really get to work everywhere in the world. You get a little bit of this, a little bit of that.

I feel that women and men should free themselves up. It took me a while to get over my dysphoria about shopping in the men's section, trying on men's clothes, but when I was thinking about my life and the kind of woman I wanted to be, it was never just this by-the-book feminine thing.

The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be, rather than recognising how we are.

I've been fortunate enough to travel to comic conventions in Portugal, France, Canada, and it's an honor to get to meet people from all over the world.

No one who claims this to be a small world has ever flown across the Pacific.

Maleness in America is not absolutely defined; it has to be kept and re-earned every day, and one essential element in the definition is beating women in every game that both sexes play.

It's hard to think of them polite flows when Stephano Polato suits are your night clothes, and Jordan sweat suits are your flight clothes, and you still make it even when they say your flight closed.