#starlet

No, it is not my sense of the immorality of the Humbert Humbert-Lolita relationship that is strong; it is Humbert's sense. He cares, I do not. I do not give a damn for public morals, in America or elsewhere. And, anyway, cases of men in their forties marrying girls in their teens or early twenties have no bearing on Lolita whatever. Humbert was fond of "little girls"—not simply "young girls." Nymphets are girl-children, not starlets and "sex kittens." Lolita was twelve, not eighteen, when Humbert met her. You may remember that by the time she is fourteen, he refers to her as his "aging mistress. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#morality #nymphets #starlets #age

Oh, my god, he thought, realizing why he had always felt negatively towards Eden. She reminds me of my mother. The thought made his throat close up tight. He mused about the day's events. What a ride. Edward had surprised him. The man had courage, committing to love. What had he said to that starlet, none of it meant anything? ↗

— H. Raven Rose

#caffeine #commitment #courage #homoerotica #love

I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#cheap #film #hardly #i #just

I don't consider myself a starlet or a Hollywood person. ↗

— Mia Wasikowska

#hollywood #i #myself #person #starlet

Zhang Yimou is always going to need young, pretty girls for his films. But I don't really concern myself with what Zhang Yimou's next starlet looks like. ↗

— Zhang Ziyi

#concern #films #going #his #i

In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel. ↗

— Ben Hecht

#any #brothel #employed #hollywood #name