Nell Scovell Quotes

I... had guys on the set who didn't like me... they weren't interested in the cold character.

Yes, Bill Clinton is a big flirt.

Male writers don't want to be judged in the room. They want to be able to scarf an entire bag of potato chips while cracking fart jokes and making lewd comments without fear of feminine disapproval. But we're your co-workers, not your wives.

I don't like the tropes, particularly in my industry, that the senior women are mean to the junior staff.

I have had an actor squeeze himself up against me during a shot in a song and whisper in my ear that he was so glad that I was in the film with him. When I threw him off me and refused to speak to him again, he made my experience miserable.

In our industry, everything is taken lightly. Guys say so many things, and if you react to them, they go, like,'We are kidding.' Things like 'You are looking hot sexy' are common.

Although it is tempting to describe the conduct of Tinder's senior executives as 'frat-like,' it was, in fact, much worse - representing the worst of the misogynist, alpha-male stereotype too often associated with technology startups.

Women in pro-ams are always telling me about all the business deals they've struck on the golf course playing with their male work colleagues.

The music industry is dominated by guys. I work with men 98 percent of the time - producers, arrangers, musicians, engineers.

Men are much more agressive with their advances.

Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.

Most of us don't think forwarding a racist joke or speaking in an insulting 'comedic' accent is appropriate at the workplace. Unfortunately, for those raised in the toxic culture of conservatism, the sort of mentality that leads government employees to do those things is widespread.

Never tolerate a toxic person in your organization.

All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected.

It's a great dynamic. The dynamic between men and women in the workplace is really interesting.

The fast food industry is rife with sexual harassment. These kids need the job and the supervisors--almost all male--take advantage of them.

One famous movie executive, who shall remain nameless, exposed himself to me in his office. 'Mr X,' I said, 'I thought you were a producer, not an exhibitor.'

Women should not be forced to accept sexual harassment as the price of admission to a life and career in the political world. They should not have to endure unwanted touching, innuendo, and propositioning from men in positions of power.

There is no excuse whatsoever for men to harass women in an abusive sexual manner. And, I am devastated that anyone should deem me capable of thinking otherwise.

The daily deluge of tales of lechery and trauma holds a hidden but crucial truism: sexual harassment routinely feeds on income inequality. After all, it's much harder to exploit an equal.

I've worked opposite so many male actors whose egos have been so delicate that it was just so hard to do the work.

There are some men who enter a woman's life and screw it up forever.

Sometimes when women come forward about sexual harassment, they're seen as a troublemaker.

I've been in a very male-dominated business for decades. I found, particularly early on, that there's plenty of room for passion, but there's very little room for emotion.

Men are even afraid to say, 'You look nice,' or, 'You look pretty,' when you come out of hair and makeup to walk on set. And before, men would constantly - producers would constantly say things, but that's kind of a way that they would butter the actresses up and make them feel secure.