Quotes About Society

I do hope that 'Interstellar' and this kind of science in film will catch the public fancy and help to reignite an interest in science - and a respect for the power of science in dealing with the problems that society has to deal with.

Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.

As a kid, I always liked reading stories where I had a power-projection fantasy. I wanted to be inside of a story where I had power and influence, was going to rise to power, was going to somehow influence my society.

I think we are just so far away from the political elite. Whether you are on one side or the other, you're still part of that group.

I feel like there's something interesting to learn from anyone's story, no matter their place in society. I think we've gotten really far away from that - we're in such a celebrity-obsessed culture.

I really feel like we have drifted too far away from real America.

Youth fare aside, I have generally always been interested in what's going on culturally.

We'll always be fascinated by people who live above the law.

Nobody's born evil. I guess that's why we're drawn to violence. We're fascinated by it, but there's a moral in how you examine it.

People are fascinated with the fast life, the easy life. For some reason, that's an American dream, and it goes all the way back to the Edward G. Robinsons and the Cagneys.

I am fascinated by that person who is trying to live authentically, but they are on the outside of society, so how do they manage in the world around them?

'Coriolanus' deals with the birth of democracy. And that has been fascinating because I've been talking about politics so much because of 'Borgen.' It's a nice bridge.

I was born in the 1980s, so learning about the late 1960s was really fascinating, not only just because of the way things looked and sounded but because of what was going on in society at that time.

I find it very difficult to see the boundary between womenswear and menswear. It's bizarre the ways in which society reacts; they find it difficult to comprehend seeing parts of the body on a man. I think it's fascinating.

There's definitely a fascination with crime stories and stories of characters acting out against authority.

Britain's fascination with its changing language is renowned.

Fascism is not the result of dictatorship.

The United States is not, nor has ever been, anything close to a fascist country.

The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.

'Women's fashion' is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women.

You know, one had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion.

Single mommyhood wasn't fashionable in the mid-'70s.

But from what I can see all around me today, that America is fading fast, if it's not already gone.

I know I have endorsed fast food in past, but now that people know me, I feel I should not do it. I have matured over the years as an actor, and I feel there is certain kind of responsibility that we have towards the society.