Kinsey Quotes

No, 'F/X 2' was a job. I enjoyed doing it but that was definitely a job. I wrote that, I didn't direct it but 'Candyman' and the earlier horror movies I made, I was completely into horror and suspense and always have been. It's informed everything I've done, even the way scenes are shot in 'Kinsey and 'Gods and Monsters.'

Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar.

And the Institute sent me a little film footage of Kinsey himself preparing to do an interview for television to talk about his work, so that was quite valuable for me.

Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.

Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.

Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.

Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion.

Kinsey's quest was really for us all to be tolerant and accepting of each other.

The truth is, I could no more dictate her nature than she could dictate mine. Kinsey's happy as she is and she doesn't need to be rescued, improved, or saved.

Well, from an acting point of view, I bear no relation, I don't look like Alfred Kinsey at all, but I thought somewhere in my artist's soul, my actor's soul, I could capture something of the spirit of the man.

When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years - which are the gay movement and the women's movement - I think there is a direct line from Kinsey to those.

And Kinsey thought that anybody who defined themselves based on their sexual acts was limiting themselves.

Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.

Books are like movies of the mind and it's better to leave Kinsey where she is.

I'm not sure Kinsey has changed in these first twelve books. I think the reader learns more about her, but from Kinsey's perspective, only three years have passed while the rest of us have been getting older at a much faster clip.

I thought, well of course, Kinsey absolutely adored teaching. He was a wonderful teacher. So these kids really inspired me. So that was a clue I hung onto. He loved young people, he absolutely loved them. And he loved teaching them and trying to help them.

Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.

One of the people that became a major source was Clarence Tripp who worked with Kinsey.

I know a little more about Kinsey than I know about sex because that is his subject not mine.