Charlotte Rampling Quotes

I want men to stop calling me a queen and treating me like an imbecile.

The whole sex symbol or babe thing doesn't bother me.

All women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols.

I enjoyed showing a bit more leg in the last few stories. It was good fun, but it can be quite sexist. But it doesn't worry me personally all that much.

I don't agree with beauty contests. I did it one time. It wasn't embarrassing being Wonder Woman; it was embarrassing walking around on stage in a bikini. It was ridiculous, stupid, and humiliating.

If actors can show their abs, why can't women show their bikini bods?

I think women are very attractive.

I am a girl, not a piece of meat.

Is the casual objectification of women so commonplace that we should all just suck it up, roll over, and accept defeat? I hope not.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

I didn't particularly like being objectified.

If you yell about one woman, you're not a misogynist. If I yell about Michelle Bachman, that doesn't make me a misogynist. If I compare all women to Michelle Bachman, then I'm a misogynist.

There are some people who still feel threatened by strong women. That's their problem. It's not mine.

I don't find offensive that I'm being labelled a babe by blokes. I'm absolutely flattered.

Women always feel like they're being stared at and judged, and rightfully so.

All that some actresses want is for people to take them seriously instead of caring about how they look.

For me, it's very offensive when I notice that it's all about my appearance, how I look, that a man doesn't care who I am.

Girls are telling me to take my shirt off. It's like, 'Hello! I'm a person, too!'

I respect women like Gloria Steinem who paved the way. But when you say 'feminist' now, there is a message that if you are sexy and you acknowledge that part of your personality publicly, then it's somehow an affront to women. And I reject that.

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

'Sexy' doesn't have to come with the price tag of being dumb.

It is frustrating when in an interview people say: 'Give us your make-up tips' and 'How do you stay skinny?' I think: 'Do you ask a guy that?'

I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup.

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

We didn't take Charlize Theron seriously until she did 'Monster' and became physically ugly. I would love to see women be able to be powerful, complex, smart, opinionated and taken seriously, even if they are beautiful.