"I wish I had invented sex. Sex is No. 1."
- Brigitte Bardot, actress
"People don't think of writers as sex objects. The women who write to me and suggest that we ought to have sex usually turn out to be, like, eighty. And their letters always end with, "Just joking." "
- Dave Barry, humorist
"One of the things I love most about Americans is how childlike we are. We're very childlike in the sense of sex – the bathroom jokes and lascivious remarks on TV, for instance. The level of our humor is for people who are still titillated by sexual innuendo. It all strikes Europeans as incredibly immature. . ."
- Candice Bergen, actress
"I've been taught ever since I was a kid that sex is filthy and forbidden, and that's the way I think it should be. The filthier and more forbidden it is, the more exciting it is."
- Mel Brooks, filmmaker
"There's nothing wrong with making love with the light on. Just make sure the car door is closed."
- George Burns, actor/comedian
"The good thing about masturbation is that you don't have to dress up for it."
- Truman Capote, writer
"If it weren't for pickpockets I'd have no sex life at all."
- Rodney Dangerfield, comedian
"Most women have a special sexual fantasy. Mine was to make love on a bed covered with gardenias."
- Bette Davis, actress
"The wild girl and the innocent virgin are in all of us."
- Laura Dern, actress
"Think of me as a sex symbol for the men who don't give a damn."
- Phyllis Diller, writer/comedienne
"The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down."
- Errol Flynn, actor
"You realize not everybody looks at nudity the way you do. That's a drag. I think nudity is a part of life. Sexiness is wonderful. Some people think it's not. Or they do, but in a way that can be frightening to me."
- Bridget Fonda, actress
"Children today know about sex by the time they are ten. Kids talk like sailors today – and adults just don't want to know."
- Jodie Foster, actress/director
"Those beautiful clinging clothes that Jean Harlow wore in her day – that was sex. People don't understand that it is far more exciting to see a woman dressed in clothes that suggest gorgeous breasts and alluring hips than to see her bare bosom or buttocks. Naked bodies have very little personality. . ."
- Edith Head, film costume designer
"The difference with my leading ladies is that they're usually a little more svelte. They don't have their sex hanging around them like baubles."
- Alfred Hitchcock, filmmaker
"Sex is good, but not as good as fresh sweet corn."
- Garrison Keillor, writer
"I don't have any hankering to be looked upon as a sex object, a male, macho rock and roll singer. I got over that a long time ago."
- John Lennon, singer/musician
"Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got."
- Sophia Loren, actress
"I believe that sex is the most beautiful, natural, and wholesome thing that money can buy."
- Steve Martin, actor/comedian, writer
"Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy."
- Groucho Marx, actor/comedian
"Sex is not a public enemy at the moment; promiscuity is a public enemy, but sex isn't."
- George Michael, singer
"Sex is part of nature, and I go along with nature."
- Marilyn Monroe, actress
"I've always wanted to be a sex symbol, but I don't think I am."
- Sinéad O'Connor, singer
"A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes, she's a tramp."
- Joan Rivers, comedienne
"Maybe when you're an adolescent, sex is really number one. But not when you're an adult, or a parent. Sex isn't gross or dirty or anything like that. I just don't like it when people shove it down our throats like it's supposed to make up for all the other stuff that's been taken away."
- Roseanne, actress/comedienne, writer
"Sexuality. . . is something that develops and becomes stronger and stronger the older you get."
- Susan Sarandon, actress
"I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know."
- Garry Shandling, actor/comedian
"Women are like cats. After lovemaking, a woman will wind up cleaning herself. Guys are slobs. Afterward, we just want to find an unused portion of the top sheet."
- Gene Simmons, singer/musician
"If I had as many affairs as they say, I would now be speaking to you from inside a jar at the Harvard Medical School."
- Frank Sinatra, actor/singer
"The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It’s that they stay out all night looking for it."
- Casey Stengel, baseball manager
"Never play cards with a guy named Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. And never have sex with anybody who has more problems than you do."
- Sharon Stone, actress
"My own opinion is that there's far too little flirtation in our country as it is. Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines."
- Barbara Walters, journalist
"Sex is the biggest nothing of all time."
- Andy Warhol, artist, filmmaker
"The mind is an erogenous zone."
- Raquel Welch, actress
"I've been in more laps than a napkin."
- Mae West, actress
"We all look pretty ridiculous during sex."
- Robin Williams, comedian/actor
