Quotes About Judgment

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

If I'm judged against my peers, rather than anyone else we could both think of, then I reckon I deserve to make records.

The records of adopted children are sealed in California. That seal is considered inviolable... The judge ruled that, because I was famous, he didn't have the same rights as other kids.

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

A lot of people felt I was getting work because I was Boy George. My response at the time was that there's a lot of DJs making records, they're not all making good records, but they have the right to do that.

A lot of coaches say to me, 'We're kind of hesitant to recruit you because you're going to BYU.' I tell them, 'I'm keeping my mind open. BYU is a nice place, but I could go anywhere.

The recurring question that anyone from Bihar gets is whether Patna has improved. I'm not interested in answering that question.

If you feel that it diminishes your intelligence to be asked about your fashion choices for an evening on the red carpet, so be it.

Red hair stigmatizes you.

If you do a cable show, you have a radio show, whatever, if you're fat and you've got red hair, look, they're going to pick on you.

On a couple of occasions I wore dark red lipstick, and nobody likes me in red lipstick!

With music, you're laying it all out there. They're judging you right away, and you can lose them quick. With the comedy, you've always got another joke to redeem yourself. Or, even if you've only got one joke, at least the punch line is at the end. Then they have to at least pay attention until the end.

I'm pretty sure I could've ended up on 'Real Housewives of Orange County.' They need a fair-skinned redhead.

People look at you, and they've got just the perfect little box for you, the perfect category. Call you a redneck. Call you a hillbilly. Like those were insults.

Cliched characters are cliches because they're people being described by people who are on the outside. If you take two sentences from anybody and reduce them to just that, that's what you're going to get.

People have become desperate to reduce everything, including each other, to mindless categories of good and bad, as if the world can be divided into Facebook likes and dislikes.

It's hard to always be reduced to the way you look or your sex appeal or what that is.

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.

It annoys me when people who don't know what they're talking about boo the referee.

You can't applaud a referee.

It's up to the referee to decide what is and isn't a foul.

In general, I believe it's fine to have impassioned conversations about Gwyneth Paltrow, but those of us who do so should admit it's a recreational activity and not a moral referendum.

If you want to know how old you look, just walk into a French cafe. It's like a public referendum on your face.

People have referred to me as 'innocent', which makes me feel disingenuous.