Omari Hardwick Quotes

I'd be lying if I said I never think about my female fans in certain shots and certain scenes. Like, when I'm topless, I might think: 'This one is for the ladies.'

A sex-symbol becomes a thing, I just hate being a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something I'd rather have it sex than some other things we've got symbols of.

I was originally cast to be the brains of the Enterprise. Somehow I became The Chick. There's a little ugly girl inside of me going 'Yay! I'm a sex symbol!'

I'm not a sex symbol.

I am not a sex symbol.

People equate sexy with promiscuous. They think that because I'm shaped this way, I must be scandalous - like running around and bringing men into my hotel room. But it's just the opposite.

Anytime I'm given scripts where I'm sort of the fantasy girl, it's hard for me because that's not real and I don't think it's a great thing to put out there consistently.

Women would all be better off if we realized we didn't have to choose between being an intelligent being and a sexual being.

There's a lot more to being a woman than being 18 years old on the cover of Maxim magazine.

I'm comfortable with my femininity, and I don't try to change what I look like just because I'm reporting on football at the end of the night.

I think it will be helpful to people because I know the expectations that are put on you as a sex symbol, and how Marilyn Monroe suffered and so on, and I was able to get free of that.

My visibility may have gotten Hollywood to redefine what's attractive.

I like being a pin-up girl. There's nothing wrong with it.

It's not my plan or whatever in my life to be a sex symbol. It never is. You are who you are, but you can't help what you look like. And when you do a film, like for me, it's just not about that. I would prefer to downplay it. I prefer to downplay the sex appeal.

For a while, I was nervous about portraying women because of the objectification that automatically comes with it, whether the artist intends or not.

I don't love dolls. I love women. I love their bodies.

Fighting the ageing process just doesn't work. I think that actresses, ultimately, are responsible for the faces we give to women.

These women whose antics we smirk at good-naturedly in the pap-traps put themselves out there at least partly on their beauty; they are in showbiz, and showing what they've got is part of their business as much as it is for male show-ponies from the Chippendales to George Clooney.

All women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols.

I'm not afraid of my femininity and I'm not afraid of my sexuality.

Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?

For lack of a better term, they've labeled me a sex symbol. It's flattering and it should happen to every bald, overweight guy.

A lot of directors idealize their leading ladies or turn them into these objects of sexuality and beauty.

I suppose it's the feminist in me, but I didn't always associate modelling with an intelligent career. I used to put myself down for doing it.

I did an internship with Dove when they were doing the 'real beauty' campaign, and I was really inspired by that. Growing up in L.A., being a young woman, and seeing how the media tells young women to be everything you're not, I kind of wrote about that experience.