Melissa Marr Quotes

But doesn't it seem like Chelsea's sort of being pimped out in some weird sort of way?

The biggest crime in Nabokov's 'Lolita' is imposing your own dream upon someone else's reality. Humbert Humbert is blind. He doesn't see Lolita's reality. He doesn't see that Lolita should leave. He only sees Lolita as an extension of his own obsession. This is what a totalitarian state does.

Straight girls like me. They flirt with me to get whatever they want. Of course it works.

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

I thought that the fashion world could be a bit fake sometimes, but it's nothing compared to Hollywood. These girls would walk over their grandmothers' graves to get a part, and the producers talk about actresses like they're dirt, picking over every part of them so that they end up paranoid and having surgery.

Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.

I have become a marketing tool and I feel very uncomfortable with that. There's no space for me to express myself.

If you're doing well, you're a target, nobody's interested in you except how you can be of use to them.

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

I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.

I hate it when people use sex as a weapon against the people who are engaging in it. It's so hypocritical.

When you're an actress, you become this thing in people's hands that people are trying to manipulate. I cannot stand it.

I have to say, without getting up on a soapbox, I find these reality shows absolutely disgusting.

The idea of going to New York for five days and kinda being paraded around by the NFL as they make money off your every step, and the whole purpose is just for publicity for me to stand there in a suit and go, 'Look at me everybody!'... That sounds horrible.

I mean, taking photographs is a very nasty thing to do. It's very cruel.

When someone else is making money off of you and using your body, you need to step off the carousel.

It's very hard to not give in, to sell your soul: to flatter a more experienced male person of power, a producer or director, in order to get what you want. You feel a pressure to flutter your eyelashes and flirt because you know that will work, and I think it's admirable to not do that.

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 got girls that can cook, I got girls that can clean, I got girls that'll do anything between.

The woman who thinks meanly of herself is any man's purchase.

Love is the use one makes of another.

You have no right to make jigsaws of people.

Choices always were a problem for you. What you need is someone strong to guide you. Deaf and blind and dumb and born to follow, what you need is someone strong to use you - like me.

...but you are too much for them: the weak in courage are strong in cunning; and one by one, you have absorbed and have captured and dishonored, and have distilled of your deliverers the most ruinous of all poisons; people hear Beethoven in concert halls, or over a bridge game, or to relax; Cézannes are hung on walls, reproduced, in natural wood frames; van Gogh is the man who cut off his ear and whose yellows became recently popular in window decoration.

When people can't use you, they ridicule what you represent. I was lucky that I understood that, because when one does not understand that, it is very easy to be broken and to be subdued.