Quotes About Opinions

All my life, I've had a fear of being told what to say, so I'm not telling people what to think. I'm encouraging them to say what they think.

You're in a profession in which absolutely everybody is telling you their opinion, which is different. That's one of the reasons George Lucas never directed again.

Most people are telling me I look horrible.

The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to have lost theirs.

I'm not sure people are ever completely comfortable telling pollsters what they do and don't think.

If Paul McCartney tells me that so-and-so song is his favorite song, what do I care? What do I care what anybody else says?

The battle going on over gay marriage in America reveals an awful lot. The Bible belt - people hate gay people. Because the Bible tells them? No, the Bible tells them an awful lot of things that they ignore.

I think comedy tells a lot; you can tell what people think by what they laugh at.

The presence of a Jew in any movement no more guarantees it to be innocent of antisemitism than guilty. And that applies to anti-Zionism, too. Anti-Zionist Jews exist, but that tells one nothing about anti-Zionism.

I don't mind the fact that people hate me. Nobody likes anyone who's been on the telly as long as I have.

Some British actors are snobby about telly, and I don't understand that.

There are a number of issues that I disagree vehemently with Mr. Trump on. I question whether he's got the temperament to serve as president.

My friends tell me that I have the wrong temperament for politics.

Such work as is overtly political has usually been the result of neither experience nor insight, those essentials to any true creation, but rather of the frigid projection on to unsuitable material of opinions learnt in the abstract, ideologies accepted on trust.

There's a widespread view that the public sector from the private sector than the other way around. But the traffic seems to me to go in both directions.

If Judaism was going to survive, the rabbis would have to take their religion into their own hands and shape it so that it could deal with the reality of exile. The same sense of independence helps explain why the rabbis adopted a high degree of tolerance for each other's opinions on the meaning of God's laws. If the rabbis could argue with God, as they sometimes did, they could certainly argue with other rabbis.

Writers shouldn't fear criticism. Instead, they should fear silence. Criticism is healthy. It gets people thinking about your work and, even better, it gets them talking and arguing. But as for silence -- it is the greatest killer of writers. So if you hate a book and want to hurt it -- don't talk about it. And if you hate my books -- please, for God's sake, shout it from the hills!

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand.

I would not wish to live in a world where I could not express my honest opinions. Men who deny to others the right of speech are not fit to live with honest men.

Hard to remember these days that there was a time you had to wait for the ink and paper reviews to see your work excoriated. With the invention of the internet, any subliterate cretin can be Michiko Kakutani.

Of course, many would say it was rich for him to have opinions about how women smelled, given that his signature odor was that of an old ashtray, overlain with a splash of Pour Un Homme on special occasions. Nevertheless, having spent much of his childhood in conditions of squalor, Strike found cleanliness a necessary trait in anyone he could find attractive. He'd liked Robin's previous scent, which he'd missed when she wasn't in the office.