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"Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don't want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and violence are only as graphic as need be. And never included unless it furthers the plot or character development."
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"If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share."
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"Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!"
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"When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don't just mean sex, I married him."
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"Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle. I go for recognition of human rights, without distinction of sect, party, sex, or color."
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"The whole sex symbol or babe thing doesn't bother me."
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"It's difficult for me to say, but I don't think the sex scenes are particularly erotic."
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"They wanted to hear about the sex, of course. But not the rest; no one wanted to hear the rest."
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"What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal."
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"The moment that I realized my name was going to be said in the same sentence as children and sex, that's really intense. That's something I knew from that very moment, whatever happens past that point, something's out there in the air that is really bad."
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"Although it is a fantasy film, it's as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth."
Cinema

"I'm amazed that things have panned out the way they have. I always say I'm so lucky, though my mum always says, "You make your own luck.""
Luck

"I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that."
Actor

"I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film."
Movies

"Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death."
Death

"I'm so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert in a ton of chain mail for Ridley any day of the week. He's an amazing director and I can't wait to see the long version."
Day

"Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that."
Life

"I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn."
Autumn

"If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about."
Life

"Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to."
Experience
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