People love talking about the banality of evil and the fact that ordinary people do bad things. I actually want to stay away from that.
My dad wanted me to play football so bad, he took me to Washington High School on the west side of Atlanta because they were number one. They never lost.
Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and malnutrition.
Actors are the best and the worst of people. They're like kids. When they're good, they're very very good. When they're bad they're very very naughty.
I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.
It is very important as a human being to be able to laugh at yourself and circumstances and particularly as a Christian. We have to know that good times don't last always and bad times don't last always.
I certainly know first hand the waste one lady can create through her primping routine, because I am a victim of fashion: to me a day without makeup and a bouffant to match is a day wasted. I love it all - whether it's fancy, cheap or, I'm ashamed to say, even if it's bad for the environment.
When the reviews are bad I tell my staff that they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank.
No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes.
The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it.
If you wait until the right time to have a child you'll die childless, and I think film making is very much the same thing. You just have to take the plunge and just start shooting something even if it's bad.
In California, where you're allowed to drive at 16, you get so much freedom with that. It's a freedom to get outside of your parents' house and to do bad things.
I have a friend who calls me the queen of the nightmares because I've always had really bad nightmares. I keep a notebook by the side of my bed, so I'll wake up in the night from a bad dream, and my heart's pounding, and I'm really scared, but I write it down, and sometimes I get ideas for books that way.
The world of the stage and the performance on the stage usually does not tend to translate very well - it doesn't tend to hold very well - once cameras are on it; it's not like it's terrible or embarrassing or bad anything, but, I, as an actor, would perform a role differently for an audience than I would for just cameras.
You just don't see Muslims being matter-of-fact Muslim. They're always defined by their Muslim-ness. We're either terrorists, or we're fighting terrorists. I remember seeing 'True Lies' and going, 'Why are we always the bad guys?'
I believe that stress is a factor in any bad health.
My mother has had breast cancer twice. And my mother has always been this very positive human being: a glass-half-full type. Like, when she was in treatment and feeling really bad, she would always talk about some nurse that was particularly nice to her.
None of them going to treat me bad, honey, I'm too strict for that.
They do injury to the good who spares the bad.
Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Protectionism has to be avoided. Protectionism is not only on goods but also in the area of services. Financial protectionism is also bad and should be avoided.
I normally sleep very well, but when I do have bad dreams, they always involve my children.
The bad thing about being a famous comedian is that every now and then someone approaches me to tell an old joke. Don't tell me jokes - I have that. People also say the weirdest things, sometimes sarcastic things, and even evil things. They like to provoke to get a reaction.
Another term for balloon is bad breath holder.
When I first started out, I was a bad actor.
There are good characters and bad characters.
You should not be defined by one bad performance.
I do not let a bad score ruin my enjoyment for golf.
In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.
What really interests me is how a woman who has had a bad experience with a man comes through it and gets a new life. I feel you have to be positive. You have to say, 'Look, okay, he's ditched you, but there's life after.'
I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.
To some people I'll always be the bad guy.
I never put down a bad script and I never walk out of a bad movie because I'm always hopeful things will change.
I am happy to play the bad man.
