Lorde Quotes

I've seen beautiful actresses get spat at or just someone trying to get a rise out of them so they can get an extra hundred bucks for a photo. It's really rough.

I'd always been treated like an object, not like a human.

Disrespect is the weapon of the weak

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

The powerlessness of the child is often forgotten. And after it comes the terrifying phase of moving into adulthood.

If you want to humble an empire, it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when they crumple and burn, it tells us we are not so powerful and we can't be safe.

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

He who is ashamed would like to force the world not to look at him, not to notice his exposure. He would like to destroy the eyes of the world.

I'm definitely sensitive to the idea of exploitation. You don't want to glamorize certain things.

We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

He was using me. When he cast me in Sideways I was nothing but a vessel.

I can totally identify with the younger kids. I'll never do what Jon Spencer did to me when I was 16, though. I made a tape with my friends and I put it onstage right near his mic stand by the pedal board and he pulled it out with his foot, kicked it to the center of the stage, looked me in the eye and stomped it to pieces.

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.

Fashion can be a really powerful tool, but it's also a place where you can be totally humiliated and have your power taken from you.

It's really disgusting what Hollywood can do to a guy.

Slow, skinny, and an utter countryside coward: I lived in dread of nettles, spiders, and the very sound of a wasp. As a victim, I was beneath the dignity of the bullies in my year but fair game to the ones in the year below.

Childhood can be hell. One reason … is that as a child you have no power.

Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised.

[Should we] pry intimately into the lives of an undefended and appallingly damaged group of human beings, an ignorant and helpless rural family, for the purpose of parading the nakedness, disadvantage and humiliation of these lives before another group of human beings, in the name of science, of ‘honest journalism”?

Young, handsome men never flirt with me. I get heat from old dudes that run the parking garages.

I see a 16-year-old now, and to ask her to take her clothes off would feel really weird. But they were like, 'If you don't do it, then we're not going to book you again.' So I'd lock myself in the toilet and cry and then come out and do it. I never felt very comfortable about it. There's a lot of boobs. I hated my boobs! Because I was flat-chested.

I haven't faced a casting couch in the South or Bollywood. But yes, I have faced my share of harassment in both industries. I don't have the guts to name them because they are powerful people - men and women who made sure I felt helpless.

No man wants to accept they could be getting used for money. But it's OK for them to let us know that they use us?

I've become a little immune to the gazes of strangers because it's been a part of my life for so long.