Quotes About Opinion

I have to say that most of the deals I have done initially were badly received, and after a while, people realised that maybe I was not that wrong.

Looks matter a lot, and it has always mattered. We always judge. I have not only been on the receiving end, but I have also judged others.

I most definitely would not buy the 'Daily Mail,' which pours a kind of livid torpor into the eyelids of the average Brit - I skimmed through a copy recently and couldn't believe the rubbish in it.

The reception for 'Enemy?' I don't care. No matter what other people think, it was important for me. I will stand for that movie, even if I stand alone.

A few people have said my granddad looks like me, but I reckon he's far better looking.

From infancy, I had been accustomed to hear pro and con discussions of slavery and the American Civil War. Although the British government finally decided not to recognise the Confederacy, public opinion in England was sharply divided on the questions both of slavery and of secession.

I totally support civil partnerships and that same-sex relationships are recognised in law. But marriage, to me, is between a man and a woman.

Oftentimes, when constituencies or sectors of opinion are distinct, when they are confronted with a situation where they're going to have to make a serious compromise, they react very negatively publicly, but they also recognize when they step back that this is right.

I particularly recognize that reasonable people can disagree as to what that proper balance or blend is between privacy and security and safety.

There are a lot of people who don't believe I deserve to be recognized as one of the top-10 best and I don't necessarily disagree with them.

Directors say that you should get actors before they are recognized. They will be a pain or have an opinion.

The Facebook way is that you sit at the table and you state your opinion, back it up with data, and make a recommendation.

Back in the day, if someone at the record label didn't care or like your music, it never got to the public. It just got shelved.

I have to think that 'Nessa Dorma' is the greatest rock ballad that's never been recorded as such.

Sometimes I hear records that are being recorded at the absolute highest quality, and I just don't like the sound of it.

When you're recording classic songs, you've got to kind of make them your own, and you can't always worry about what people are going to think.

I never could get into The Chambers Brothers. They make good records, but I never could get behind it.

I don't think people buy records because of anything that happens on Facebook. They buy records cause they're friends say 'I bought this record and I love it.'

Records... a record just shouldn't be that important.

Sometimes I'd hear things on other people's records and I say I wanted it on my records, but Leslie Kong said, no, it wasn't right and that it wasn't my style.

Can we all admit that 'Parks and Recreation' is horrible? Is this something we would all know, but don't say? Maybe everything should not be improv'd.

I'm tired of Nick Saban. I used to love Nick Saban. I don't know what he does on the recruiting side - he's the truth.

But if an actress asks me my opinion, I would tell her there are a million different designers who make faux fur. If you like that look, wear faux fur. If you're doing it on the red carpet, you're doing it for how it looks. Faux fur and real fur look the same on camera.

Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.