Hugh Hefner Quotes

I didn't want to be the girl who posed in 'Playboy' and then - by the way - made some music.

I don't have a problem being labeled a sex symbol, though I personally don't feel very sexy about myself.

I was in Asia and people asked me about being considered sex symbol. I don't know if that's good or not, because where I come from, sex isn't something you're allowed to talk about.

I'm not a sex symbol.

When people say, 'You're perceived as a sex symbol,' I love the idea of that because it's so absurd.

I consider Playboy very wholesome, frankly.

I think a lot of times, when people who get a chance to meet me and be around me, they understand that I'm not the person that the media make me out to be.

Just because of 'Rangeela' and 'Daud,' it can't be said that I am a sex symbol.

I love being regarded as a sex symbol, but I can't take it too seriously.

I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit.

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.

Just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn't mean I'm naughty.

I am not a sex symbol.

I'm such a girly-girl! I don't know why people don't see that.

I think the problem I have is that first impressions are the ones that stick with people. And people's first impressions of me are obviously from the film, from 'Gregory's Girl.'

I don't consider myself a sex symbol.

I may be known as the girl who was sunbathing topless with a Prince but Jordan is known as that thick girl who always falls out of clubs drunk. I know which one I prefer.

I'm the girl next door, not the sex symbol.

The guys you see me bring home, we're only cuddling and making out like any other person would do, but we're on camera and the whole world's seeing it, and it does look like I'm having sex.

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

I would like people to know me for who I am, especially since I think people have a very skewed image of me. I was playing a lot of cute characters, a lot of little girls; I was objectified. And I don't want people to think of me as that because it's not who I am, and because I've seen a lot of hostility towards that image.

The press creates a caricature.

We've been slighted in the press for being heartfelt.

When people see me, I might come across as just eye candy.

Some people will never take Madonna seriously - just as many never took Marilyn Monroe seriously. Novelty images - especially that of a sex symbol - are hard to erase.