Feist

I was a bar-back, which is the person who cleans the bathrooms at the end of the night in the bar, and a cook. I had kind of given up. I was into backing other people up. Music was something I just did on the side and I don't think I had the energy to pimp myself out, like call people up and ask them to book me to play.

Canadian Musician

Tom Hiddleston

I thought theater people wouldn't see me if I hadn't trained. I didn't want to just be the Brideshead guy, to spend the rest of my life wearing waistcoats. I got the chance to try everything. Not just Romeos, but pimps and grandfathers and even one role as a woman in a Naomi Wallace play called Slaughter City.

English Actor

Hunter S. Thompson

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.

American Journalist

Xavier Dolan

Facts are, directors are not thinking of me; they think I only act in my films, because they're stupid. Or they think I'm a control freak, that I will try to, I don't know, pimp their scripts and just change everything, which I will never do.

Canadian Actor

John Ridley

If some of us can get an Oscar for extolling that it's hard out there for a pimp, why can't others of us admonish: 'Then quit acting like a pimp'?

American Director

Tiger Woods

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.

American Golfer

Larry Holmes

All fighters are prostitutes and all promoters are pimps.

American Athlete

The term 'pimp' as a noun carries negative moral and legal implications, often associated with crime.

Negative Connotations

Use 'pimp' with caution; it's very informal and may offend or shock in professional or formal settings.

Avoid in Formal Use

Though traditionally male-associated, 'pimp' can refer to any gender in the role of managing prostitutes.

Gender Neutral

'Pimping' as a verb is a sensitive term that can evoke strong emotions due to its association with exploitation.

Emotional Impact

While 'pimping' has a specific criminal meaning, in slang, it can mean promoting something aggressively.

Colloquial Usage

The verb 'pimping' is not suitable for children's conversations due to its adult themes.

Inappropriate for Kids

'Pimp' as a verb in slang means to upgrade or customize, often showing off wealth or status.

Modern Slang

The phrase 'Pimp My Ride' comes from a TV show where cars are customized, a common reference.

Popular Culture

Using 'pimp' in the context of making something cool is very informal and trendy among youth.

Informal and Trendy

 The common perception was that only pimps and pushers and prostitutes were from the South Bronx. And if you are told from your earliest days that nothing good is going to come from your community, that it's bad and ugly, how could it not reflect on you? So now, my family's property was worthless,

Majora Carter: Greening...

 And I think people don't fully understand how broad the message is. There is a circle that's been started for rescued sex workers in Miami. They're using "Lean In" to help people make the transition back to what would be a fair life, really rescuing them from their pimps, and using it.

Sheryl Sandberg: So we...

 wheelchair accessibility across the United States to raise funds and awareness for DMD and to convince the producers of MTV's hit show pimp my ride to customize Darius's wheelchair on national television footage from the trip became a successful nonprofit

“Darius Goes West” PIPE...

 You probably think about a young girl or woman, who's been brutally forced into prostitution by a violent pimp. That is real suffering, and that is a real story. That story makes me angry for far more than just the reality of that situation, though.

Noy Thrupkaew: Human...

 No, I don't think I said anything, I just finished playing and went home. All right class, so then there were men who had more than just a passing relationship to this issue. The next subject described himself as a reformed and remorseful pimp

Sarah Jones: One woman,...

 you're beginning to construct some characterization of the relationship between Hamlet and Polonius, which was not good. But if you dig some more, "fishmonger" means a broker of some type, and in this setting, would mean like a pimp,

Insults by Shakespeare

 were expected to earn enough money a day to support a hundred-dollar-a-day heroin addiction, their living expenses and their pimp. And with unprotected sex, they were paid more, and predictably, this would lead to a pregnancy.

The Housing First...

 if they are in sexual slavery, but the brothel owners and the pimps and the male customers are prosecuted, and -- -- prostitution has gone down. In the United States, we take just the opposite position.

Jimmy Carter: Why I...

 maybe it's my own reflection, I've never been able to do anything but crashing cars and shooting prostitutes and pimps. So it was not very constructive. So, I'm making fun of it, but we discussed this

Paola Antonelli: Why I...

 that thermometer might be a bit confused when pimp I guess if I had to be honest it definitely feels it definitely feels