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It wasn't sexual in its element. I wasn't being exploited. I was doing what happened. It was very challenging because I played Phyllis from 15 years old to 53 when she died of breast cancer.

— Lesley-Anne Down

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I did this role in Life Goes On as an HIV positive character and so emotionally that was the most challenging.

— Chad Lowe

I played a definite part in it. I guess the things that I played in films and the way the nudity and the love scenes were handled were really different.

— Bo Derek

My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives.

— Harvey Fierstein

Really, in a way, I took over the male role.

— Honor Blackman

I've played a prostitute now three times. I don't know how it's come about that way. It's just a matter of me growing up.

— Brittany Snow

I felt guilty throughout the whole time, but I was seduced. The power of these drugs, sex, power, and money, was extremely strong for me.

— John Perkins

I moved further and further away from mass entertainment. The sexual element became increasingly sinister and bizarre. Don't blame me! The bastards drove me to it! They all backed off after that!

— Robert Crumb

In all the horror films that I have done, all of those women were strong women. I don't feel I ever played the victim, although I was always in jeopardy.

— Adrienne Barbeau

If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat.

— Martha Gellhorn

After that, I was offered lots of lesbian roles, but I didn't want them because I'd already played the best there was.

— Radha Mitchell

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