Quotes About Acceptance

I don't expect people to know my name. I don't get offended if people don't know me.

Seriously, we all need to get over being offended every time someone says something you don't agree with. Guess what? That's life. And I'd rather have that life any day than only hear from people who agree with me.

I feel offended when people bring up my four marriages. I was 19 when I first got married and I thought it would be for ever. But each of my marriages has added to my life and helped form me as a human being.

Once you feel loved by the universe, you're already accepted, and you're not really concerned about offending people.

Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals.

No offense, Nazis, I don't want to hurt your feelings, but I don't like you. I like Jews.

Actually, the original nickname that I was told - it scared me to death - was Heavy G. I think the last thing you want to be known as is Heavy anything. No offense to Heavy D - rest his soul. Worked for him, wasn't really my bag.

In 'Gran Torino,' I play a guy who's racially offensive. But he learned. It shows that you're never too old to learn and embrace people that you don't understand to begin with. It seems like nobody else got that message, I guess.

I don't lead a particularly Bohemian existence. The main criterion for me is not to be judgemental of other people so long as what they do is not harmful or offensive to others.

When I was younger, I initially hated football because they put me on the offensive line because I was the biggest kid.

My first letter of acceptance, to UMass - Amherst, came with an offer of a fellowship and a note from John Edgar Wideman.

It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.

Nobody is more individual than you, so be confident with who you are and what you have to offer because everybody has got things to offer.

I never turned a part down when they offered me money.

I've always basically done everything that's been offered to me. I'm one of the few actors who enjoy working a lot.

Whenever I'm offered something, I always read the script and meet the director. I still appreciate just being considered.

I'm not good at fantasy, no. I have been offered stuff, and I can't get my head around it.

I've become one of those actors who find it difficult to say 'no' when things are offered.

If someone offered me a movie, I will take your script.

Personally, as an artiste, I never do any discrimination. If I am offered a 'Golmaal 4,' I'll run and do it.

Being a 'hunk' is going to do great things for my love life, and I'll get a lot more offers. But I'll certainly never see myself as one.

Whenever offers come my way, if I connect with it, then I am completely open to it.

Every time the UFC offers something, I just take it.

I guess when somebody offers you a movie, you don't say no. That's what I've learned.