My mom and I lived at Hollywood and Western, a drug-dealer and prostitute corner. It was pretty terrifying. I got beat up a lot. I saw people have sex in the alleys. I remember I was 5 years old, and this guy with a trench coat, needles and crack cornered...
Leonardo DiCaprio
On her role as the child prostitute Iris in Taxi Driver (1976): "At first I didn`t want to do the part, but only because I was afraid my friends would tease me afterwards. I thought, wow, they`ve got to be kidding. It was a great part for a 21-year old, b...
Jodie Foster
I try not to let my politics limit me artistically, and you know say like "well I can`t do that because I don`t ever want to play a black prostitute" or "I can`t do that because I don`t ever want to play,you know a drug addict". I really try not to do tha...
Kerry Washington
[her reaction to Suzanne Finstad`s 1996 biography of her, "Child Bride"] Talk about 5 minutes [of fame]! There are people in that book I`ve never even heard of. That woman made me out to be some kind of prostitute. I dated. But that was just my life . . .
Priscilla Presley
On her role as the child prostitute Iris in Taxi Driver (1976): "I spent four hours with a shrink to prove that I was normal enough to play a hooker. It was the role that changed my life. For the first time I played something completely different. But I k...
Jodie Foster
[answering the bad reviews he got on his last movie, A Countess from Hong Kong (1967)] If they don`t like it, they are bloody idiots. A diplomat falls in love with a prostitute - what better story can they get than that?
Charlie Chaplin
I`d prostitute my talents if it would further my cause, steal if there was no way out, killing my friends or anyone else if it would help my art.
Ingmar Bergman
It`s a twisted little look at cultural imperialism as refracted through a relationship between a trust-fund stoner and a male prostitute, ... It`s really fun.
Alan Ball
Even a criminal has the right to a new life, but they made sure I did not have that. They just didn`t stop calling me a prostitute for ever and ever and ever and ever.
Christine Keeler
A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.
Alan Cropsey
[Whereas Jing is girlish devotion personified, Ziyi Zhang is the epitome of forced flirtation as the prostitute Bai. When she falls in love with her drinking pal Chow, they both pretend it`s a simple transaction, even as their passion rocks the hotel and ...
Ann Powers