Chris Frantz Quotes

I can honestly, and proudly, say that I never was on the casting couch. Oh, of course there have been advances from certain men in the movie industry, but nothing overwhelming.

Men, all men, were always trying to get hold of me, you know.

I've been getting chatted up by men ever since I was 14.

Young men do not want to have to take a consent form and a lawyer on a date, just as young women have every right to go on a date and to say 'No', having it respected.

It often means that a woman is hired because she is pretty, regardless of her qualifications; that a woman's job security is eternally dependent on how well she pleases her boss, and he often thinks sexual companionship is part of the job description; and that women are fired because they have aged or they are too independent or they say 'no' to sexual byplay

Guys always follow me into the bathroom and ask for pictures and stuff.

I worked on the Harvey Weinstein-produced 'The Great Raid,' where I warned a young co-star not to take Harvey up on his invitations to drinks unless the whole group was there.

I wasn't naive, but at the end of my Miss America year, when two different executives attacked me during what I thought were informational interviews about jobs, I was shocked. I didn't see it coming, and the worst thing about it was the shame I felt, as if I'd done something wrong.

I had people when I was younger trying to feel me up. Older men. I just told them to get lost.

I just couldn't handle people coming on to me with motives other than music.

It's hard being a woman in this industry, period. A lot of the time, guys make you feel like you need to hook up with them - especially as an artist - producers and other artists trying to collaborate with them, they make you kinda feel sometimes you need to hook up with them or flirt with them just to make a song.

The horrible thing is, as a model, it wasn't that unusual to be in a weird situation where a photographer or someone feels they have a right to your body.

Meet them once and you're innocent; meet them twice and you're not. So if you see me having drinks again with Harvey Weinstein then, okay, you've got me.

Sexual harassment is complex, subtle, and highly subjective.

The fathers, if they got me alone, would try to kiss and fondle me. I hated it.

I came across awful characters when I got some kind of status and came to Hollywood. Then you have directors trying to sleep with you, assuming that you will do things because of the way you dress.

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

If you're a woman and a guy's ever said anything romantic to you, he just left off the second part that would have made you sick if you could have heard it.

I absolutely refused to make out with the gorgeous male model.

I can't even begin to tell you how many casting couches I was attacked on. Not just by casting people, but by stars.

Sometimes women feel uncomfortable when men stare at them when they try on shoes.

The boys in junior high get really lewd and say outrageous stuff to the girls. If somebody yelled the stuff at me that I've heard at junior high schools I've visited, I'd be scared and humiliated.

You don't need a rope to pinch a stranger's butt.

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

I would like to say that what Mel Phillips was doing was not sexual harassment but more sexual abuse of children, because he was doing it in a sexual manner now that I look back on it.