Quotes About Judgment

Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.

I think of myself as an actor first, not a sex symbol. Do I think I'm sexy? No, that's someone else's judgment, and I honestly don't think you can try to be sexy and really succeed.

Just because of 'Rangeela' and 'Daud,' it can't be said that I am a sex symbol.

Of course I'm going to be labeled as a sex symbol. I made my bed, and I'm sleeping in it.

I can't be described as a sex symbol; I think it's ridiculous.

To be sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating.

I feel people think I'm almost like a robot - like an android... I just don't really get portrayed as someone who has feelings or who is sympathetic... like a self-absorbed ice queen.

The idea that people feel that they have to be sympathetic to me? It's a funny concept.

People have very difficult lives. We can judge them for making the wrong decisions, but if you look harder and understand that these lives can be difficult, hopefully you're at least a bit more sympathetic to the decisions these people have to make.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.

Whether rich people make money or lose money, they get no sympathy from the public.

It's not very interesting to establish sympathy for people who, on the surface, are instantly sympathetic. I guess I'm always attracted to people who, if their lives were headlines in a newspaper, you might not be very sympathetic about them.

People know you as an actor, and labels are so comfortable for people. That syndrome is always hard to get past.

You have to avoid what I call the 'smartest boy in class syndrome,' which is, just because you know it, you don't have to tell it. I often will go through a manuscript crossing stuff out, and say, 'This is just too much,' you know?

I suffer from imposter syndrome all the time. Even if I'm just at a party, I'm thinking people are going to find out that I'm really boring.

We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admit that we know of no better system, except possibly flipping a coin.

The American justice system administers punishment. It does not conduct inquests and it does not find facts.

I don't think I'm always right, but I would like to empower people to come to sound conclusions using a systematic way of looking at things.

what do you do with a man who is supposed to be the holiest man who has ever lived and yet goes around talking with prostitutes and hugging lepers? What do you do with a man who not only mingles with the most unsavory people but actually seems to enjoy them? The religious accused him of being a drunkard, a glutton and having tacky taste in friends. It is a profound irony that the Son of God visited this planet and one of the chief complaints against him was that he was not religious enough.

Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible.

I realized that if I had said to them, "You had that young man turned out of the carriage because he had a second-class ticket," they would have nodded and said, "Yes," and if I had gone on and said, "But you yourselves have only second-class tickets," they would not have seen that the second statement had any bearing on the first; and I cannot picture to myself the mental life of people who cannot perceive that connexion.

For all she knew, he could be a criminal, although she didn't think so. She repressed a hysterical laugh. Did she think he had an honest face? Black and blue and honest all over?

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact. —George Eliot