I think any girl who comes to Hollywood with sex symbol or bombshell hanging over her has a rough road.
— Kim Basinger
Unpopular Sex Symbol quotations
I wasn't a sex symbol, I was a sex zombie.

I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol.

Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks.
Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.
Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.
A sex symbol is a heavy load to carry when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.

It's ridiculous that people call me a sex symbol.
I don't feel like that at all. My daughter would get a kick out of it - she'd find it very funny. I'll take it though. I'm very humble. But it's certainly not the way I feel.
Myra Breckenridge is the antithesis of sex symbol. Shes revolutionary; shes a warrior.
I am not a sexy woman, I'm not beautiful, I'm not a sex kitten, I don't flirt with people, yet I've been tagged more of sex symbol than women who truly are and I that's solely because I don't reveal too much: people are curious.

Do I look like a sex-symbol or a pin-up boy? It's just that my father presented me like a dream.
I never think of myself as any kind of sex symbol, but I get letters from all over, all sorts. It's really cool. I get a lot from inmates, which is kind of scary. But the best was the guy who wanted to send me a plane ticket to fly me to his prom.
Back in my heyday, when I was out on the streets - I'm engaged now, about to get married - but before that I was quite the sex symbol. My line was, "If I was taller, would I have a chance?".
Burt Reynolds, great sex symbol of the movies, who said, I owe it all to one great part. Never got a dinner!
God bless America - what other civilization would give Patrick Dempsey another shot to rule as a sex symbol, twenty years after 'Meatballs III: Summer Job?' His reign as Dr. McDreamy on 'Grey's Anatomy' is proof that there's nothing we love more than giving Eighties celebs a heartwarming second stab at life.
I don't want to be known as a sex symbol.
There's a great stigma that goes with that tag. I want to be a Sam Elliott.
It's hilarious to be considered a sex symbol.
In school I was a beanpole with a nose I hadn't grown into. Being thought of as sexy makes one employable, but it's not going to last forever, so I try not to think about it. It's like something that exists outside of me.
Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.
You have to be born a sex symbol. You don't become one. If you're born with it, you'll have it even when you're 100 years old.
I'm a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they've made of me- and that I've made of myself- as a sex symbol. They expect bells to ring and whistles to whistle, but my anatomy is the same as any other woman's and I can't live up to it.
I was the first home-grown sex symbol, rather like Britain`s naughty seaside postcards. When Marilyn Monroe`s first film was shown here [The Asphalt Jungle (1950)], a columnist actually wrote: `How much like our Diana Dors she is`.
I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.
I look in the mirror and I don't see a sex symbol.
I just see a guy who looks like he's been beaten with a baseball bat. I mean, is this the face of a sex symbol? They say that because I work in the movies.
I read that I’m supposed to be Hollywood’s new sex symbol .
I think I’m the most unsexy thing that ever was. I’m open for everything of course, but I’m certainly not aware of being sexy.
I was always a character actress and never a sex symbol.
Even when I was the leading lady, I was a character actor.
I would never know how to sell myself as a sex symbol. That's not how I'm programmed.
For lack of a better term, they've labeled me a sex symbol.
It's flattering and it should happen to every bald, overweight guy.
A sex symbol becomes a thing.... I just hate to be a thing.
I have no illusions at all about being a sex symbol.
None of my former girlfriends ever thought of me that way, and I don't have any packs of women chasing me down the street like a Brad Pitt or someone like that.
I was in Asia and people asked me about being considered sex symbol.
I don't know if that's good or not, because where I come from, sex isn't something you're allowed to talk about.
I don't view myself as a sex symbol. I think beautiful people come from within and that's how I look at it. I'm definitely not sexy.
I hate the whole reluctant sex-symbol thing.
It's such bull. You see these dudes greased up, in their underwear, talking about how they don't want to be a sex symbol.
If I was a sex symbol, I would be getting laid a lot more than I am now.
I've always just simply seen myself as an actor.
And I believe that it serves me well to just think in terms of my craft. If hypothetically, I saw myself only as a sex symbol, or as some other limited stereotype, I think I would feel like a complete failure.
I can't be described as a sex symbol; I think it's ridiculous.
As a sex symbol, I don't know what is appealing to women.
I think it's the way you treat women that makes you sexy if you like.