Quotes About Opinion

Free speech is one of the most important things to me, but I think it gets confusing when it comes to offense. Because for one, just because you have the right to say anything, it doesn't mean you have to.

Francois Hollande is an intelligent man. I do not have a problem with him. The only thing is, he has never held office at the state level. Honestly, can you imagine Francois Hollande as president of France? Imagine it!

I'm in no way suggesting that my opinion matters more than anyone else's, of course, but the only thing that bothers me is apathy. People that sit out of the process and complain about it, or pretend that politics isn't a part of their everyday lives.

In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste.

What people will say about me then - or maybe not say - will be the only thing that finally counts.

The problem with individual opinion is that it doesn't necessary correlate with what the mass audience is thinking.

When my colleagues went to endorse Rob Garagiola, nobody asked me for my opinion about that. And I didn't ask anybody else. I did what I thought was the right thing to do, and I made a decision, just like they did.

When it's supposed to be, when it's the right thing. I have a very strong opinion about things and what works best for me in terms of manifesting my desires.

'The Simpsons' obviously is a huge success, and Fox has nothing to do with its success, with its creative success, and as a result they don't really like the show. They don't like 'The Simpsons' at Fox.

I'm not one of these people who say how much better American drama is than English. I find it mostly too American, except for The Sopranos, which I think is the best thing.

In my opinion, theater shouldn't give advice to citizens.

The mainstream is generally garbage. Look at the heavily subsidized theaters.

I've never been a big horror genre fan, but I did go see 'Nightmare on Elm Street' in the theaters and I dug it. I thought it was cool.

Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.

Media bias has been a favorite theme of the Right for decades, of course.

We're so surrounded by so much of this marketing and just being told on a regular basis that you have to like this, you will go here, you want this. I found that to me that fit perfectly into what a theme park of dinosaur would be about.

And it's my opinion that people who don't like dogs are coldhearted and impatient.

Leslie, it doesn't matter how other people feel about your spouse! Don't you see? You chose him, you had to live with him, he was your package to adore or be fed up with! Once you made your choice, I didn't have a right to an opinion.

I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you.

The gooey, amorphous "spirituality" of paganism allowed people to do their own thing in matters of religion. Sing, shout, prophesy, pray, go into a trance . . . nobody gave a fig, so long as you did not attempt to impose any of your high-falutin' opinions on anyone else.

No audience likes a writer's opinion thrust down their gullet as simply a tract. It has to be dramatized and made acceptably palatable within a dramatic form.

Isocrates was ninety years old in 346 BCE but as active an opinion-former as ever.

No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.

The right really dominates radio, and it's amazing how much energy the right spends telling us that the press is slanted to the left when it really isn't. They want to shut other people up. They really don't understand the First Amendment.