Femme Fatale Quotes

• And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They're a lot of fun, they're sexy, they're manipulative, they're dangerous.

  Brian De Palma

  Sexy, Fun, Character

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• I always wanted to be a femme fatale. Even when I was a young girl, I never really wanted to be a girl. I wanted to be a woman.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Girl, Women, Empowering

  Interview with David Colman, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 24, 2012.

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• I've been playing sexually aware women most of my life. At this point I expected to be playing moms and wives. It's exciting to play a femme fatale.

  Kim Cattrall

  Mom, Play, Wife

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I would love to play the Femme Fatale or an action role like Trinity in the Matrix or something like that. You know, a part with a lot of costume changes.

  Josie Maran

  Play, Roles, Costumes

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• Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary cliche. But the femme fatale expresses woman's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all of men's relationships with women.

  Camille Paglia

  Men, Feminism, Ancient

  "Sex, Art and American Culture: New Essays". Book by Camille Paglia, 1992.

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• I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her.

  Salma Hayek

  Men, Thinking, Black

  "Salma Hayek and Pierce Brosnan talk about After the Sunset!". Interview with Brian B., movieweb.com. November 9, 2004.

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• I wanted to play a mother again. I thought it would be interesting to play the mother of an older child. And it was also the kind of part I've been looking for my whole career, actually, in film. You know, just to play a femme fatale who's very smart, and wicked.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Mother, Children, Smart

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• Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance. She wields the sexual power that feminism cannot explain and has tried to destroy. Through stars like Taylor, we sense the world-disordering impact of legendary women like Delilah, Salome, and Helen of Troy. Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary clich?. But the femme fatale expresses women's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all men's relations with women.

  Camille Paglia

  Stars, Power, Greatness

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.12, Vintage

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• I'm not really a femme fatale.

  Carla Bruni

  Femme

  Interview with Barbara Walters, abcnews.go.com. August 1, 2008.

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• The mystique of the femme fatale cannot be perfectly translated into male terms.

  Camille Paglia

  Males, Femme, Term

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.43, Canongate Books

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• I think that plain old intellectualism [can be] a more powerful force than the idea of the femme fatale.

  Lana Del Rey

  Powerful, Thinking, Ideas

  "Original Sin: An Interview With Lana Del Rey". Interview with John Calvert, thequietus.com. October 4, 2011.

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• I suppose you could pass for a starlet. You do have that femme fatale air about you. Like you crush boys’ dreams in your spare time.

  Janette Rallison

  Crush, Dream, Boys

  Janette Rallison (2009). “Just One Wish”, p.28, Penguin

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• I’ve never considered myself a femme fatale as I’ve never seduced anyone and ruined their lives. At least as far as I know.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Femme, Ruined, Knows

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• I am cursed with a right leg that arouses the desire of any male dog that happens to be passing. I used to think that this only happened to me but I've discovered that many people have the same problem. They have a femme fatale limb.

  Jasper Carrott

  Funny, Dog, Thinking

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• When men create movies about femme fatales, it really is always about how that female can destroy that male. It's not really about what's happening on the interior of that female.

  Anna Biller

  Men, Males, Female

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't think we're the screaming femme fatale running away from danger as much as we used to be. I think people are seeing us as much more multi-layered personalities with desires, and wants, and needs as much as any male figure out there.

  Barbara Crampton

  Running, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I feel a strong affinity to Ke$ha and Katy Perry and a lot of these women who are really pushing the girl power femme fatale thing. It's fun and it's unapologetic, and they tell women they can do whatever they want, and that's true, and that's a message that I want to carry, to tell girls they can do whatever they want.

  T. J. Miller

  Girl, Strong, Fun

  "Because T.J. Miller is a Funny Functioning Drunk". Interview with Amos Barshad, www.gq.com. July 27, 2011.

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• I've worked with a lot of great glamorous girls in movies and the theater. And I'll admit, I've often thought it would be wonderful to be a femme fatale. But then I'd always come back to thinking that if they only had what I've had - a family, real love, an anchor - they would have been so much happier during all the hours when the marquees and the floodlights are dark.

  Eve Arden

  Girl, Real, Dark

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's more empathetic representations than we're used to seeing. I honestly feel like in the early days of Hollywood, women did have those. Women had very traditional roles in society of wife and mother, but when they went to the movies, they got to see women be, like, really cool, amazing characters and femme fatales and all of this. And then there was just this systemic reaction where it was all about, "How do we make money?" And everybody wants to sell things to boys. And then women's entertainment became devalued in a way that I think is disrespectful and hurtful.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Mother, Character, Boys

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• I'd love to play a femme fatale. And I wouldn't mind working with George Clooney.

  Laurie Holden

  Play, Mind, Femme

  Source: collider.com

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• Stained is about a lonely bookshop keeper, and her past comes back to haunt her. I play a femme fatale, schizophrenic serial killer. They offered me the part and I was like, "I'm just curious why you thought I would be perfect for this role," and the director (Karen Lam) said, "You have this look that, when you're smiling, you're really sweet, but when you're not smiling, you look like you could kill somebody."

  Tinsel Korey

  Lonely, Sweet, Past

  Source: collider.com

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• For Fleur de Chine, I imagined the romantic and mysterious women from Asia's cinematic past-from the '30s femme fatale in a cheongsam and dark lipstick, to the'60s Hong Kong heroine of In the Mood for Love. I wanted to capture that fascinating, exquisite and slightly scandalous femininity.

  Tom Ford

  Dark, Past, Mysterious Woman

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• Well, I'm not at all like the tough, sexy femme fatale in Confidence but it's fun to play people who're really different from you, from different cultures and places. I suppose I'm a bit quieter than most of the people I play.

  Rachel Weisz

  Sexy, Fun, Play

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