If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.
Meg Greenfield
Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn`t matter.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
During an interview with Roger Ebert regarding his film Munich (2005) and the response from Jewish critics that claim it depicts Israeli and Palestinian causes as morally equivalent: Frankly, I think that`s a stupid charge. The people who attack the movie...
Steven Spielberg
You made the right choice, kiddo! - Peck`s tongue-in-cheek response when he discovered that his second wife, the French journalist Veronique Passani, had passed up an opportunity to interview Albert Schweitzer at a lunch hosted by Jean-Paul Sartre in orde...
Gregory Peck
[his response (in 1979) to an indication that he shared the spotlight with Star Wars (1977) villain Darth Vader, played by David Prowse, another muscle-bound actor] Anybody could play Darth Vader. Vader is basically just a big guy behind a costume. The ch...
Lou Ferrigno
[response to the otaku view of cute female lead characters as a form of wish fulfillment] It`s difficult. They immediately become the subjects of rorikon gokko [play toy for Lolita Complex guys]. In a sense, if we want to depict someone who is affirmative...
Hayao Miyazaki
In response to an invitation to write an autobiography - "Books written by actresses are for the birds. Besides what would I write?...that somebody was looking for an Italian type to play the ingenue in a film and I might do?"
Claudette Colbert
I do want to say things in these films. I want audiences to come out with shards stuck in them. I don`t care if people love my films or walk out, as long as they have a strong response.
Terry Gilliam
Everyone said no. Everyone with a date book and a phone in Los Angeles said no. [On Hollywood`s initial response to his Garden State (2004) script].
Zach Braff
In response to radio interviewer who asked if he would co-star with Robert Redford in sequel to Indecent Proposal (1993) "Like a rocket!...I`d shack up with anyone for a million dollars. I`d shack up with a gorilla for a million, plus 10 percent."
Paul Newman
In response to a new 2006 PBS censorship policy requiring additional visual pixelization for the deaf of recognizable lip movements of sworn words: "All I can say is I`ve been reading the lips of bleeped-out words, angry baseball players, and stoned-out r...
Marlee Matlin
Is it just me, or is a porn award show just not the right place to be discussing your thoughts on the war? - Response to a question at the 2003 X-Rated Critics Organization Awards (quoted in "High Society" October 2003)
Jenna Jameson
[crowd cheers] "That was a good response and I`m not going to ask you to do it again. There`s nothing I hate more than going to a concert and the guy says `You having a good time?` and you scream your head off and then the guy says `I can`t hear you!` and...
John Mayer
I care more about telly because it made me an actor and there`s a much more immediate response to TV. You can address the political or cultural fabric of your country.
Christopher Eccleston
I wasn`t surprised that Jamie got the award. But I knew that cameras would be stuffed up my face so I had my response ready. Anyone who says they don`t practice is a liar. -on losing out on the Oscar to Jamie Foxx during the 2005 Academy Awards.
Leonardo DiCaprio
I`m happy that my films were discovered by chance by foreign film festivals. That makes me realise more that there is a world outside Japan too. For me, it`s an occasion to meet many people and to experience directly the response of international audience...
Takashi Miike
I don`t consider myself a great dresser either. But I try. Most of the time I`m in khakis and a white T-shirt. I`m a total Gap girl. Super casual, hair in a pony tail and no makeup. - in response to being voted as one of the Worst Dressed by People magazi...
Jennifer Hewitt
It was an intense movie and the response was polarized -- which was great, because it stuck in people`s minds. That film has helped me immensely. [On Hard Candy.]
Ellen Page
I`d rather be thought of like that than to play Mary Poppins. -- Charlotte Rampling, in response to her tendency toward playing villainess roles
Charlotte Rampling
In response to bootleg copies of the movie popping up: "Is it wrong for someone who`s bought a film on DVD to let a friend watch it for free? Of course it`s not. It never has been and never will be. I think information, art and ideas should be shared. I d...
Michael Moore
(About his drunk-driving accident) With regard to that incident, whatever attention has been given to it, I brought it upon myself. So I would definitely not say that my childhood in this business caused that in any way but the response to it is definitel...
Haley Osment
Perhaps you missed my turn as a gay cop in `The Big Bounce` (2004)? -in response to a interview who told Andrew "I didn`t know that you exist."
Andrew Wilson
You made the right choice, kiddo! - Peck`s tongue-in-cheek response when he discovered that his second wife, the French journalist Veronique Passani, had passed up an opportunity to interview Albert Schweitzer at a lunch hosted by `Jean Paul Sartre` in or...
Gregory Peck
I was affected by it - of course I was. What bothered me was that I was being criticized before I had done the work. I wasn`t going to get into an argument with these people, so my only response was, `See the movie and then you have the right to criticize...
Daniel Craig
Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It`s almost always the wrong response.
Larry Summers
