Quotes About Compromise

If you're really on top, you probably didn't do that great, 'cause you have to water it down a bit for it to get that mass appeal.

I was always the mediator.

I'm a huge mediator.

People are all at sixes and sevens with each other. They're always quarreling. They never somehow resolve anything.

The Golovkin thing came up and I said 'fight me at 172lbs and I'll think about it' and he wanted me to go down to 166. He wouldn't even come up to super-middle and I was already retired by that point.

On certain issues, one has to rise above party politics for the country to run.

You always have to sacrifice something when you want to achieve something.

A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it.

You don't have love without sacrifice; you can't have sacrifice without love.

It's always easier to sacrifice when you're not the one who has to do it.

It takes some sacrifice to have a healthy relationship.

If there's one thing I learned about being with someone, it's you have to be willing to give every drop of yourself. Both people need to sacrifice so much to make it work and most of my single friends they don't want to do that.

If fighting ever got in the way of my marriage, you'd see me sacrifice my career.

It's pretty sad when you have to choose between the lesser of two evils.

Saddam was a bastard, but he was our bastard.

I never satisfied that kid but I think he and I have made a deal now.

To make the films I want, I just have to live within my means and scale down my lifestyle - and be with somebody who's cool with that.

As a screenwriter, you're always being told: a good scene is one where somebody wants something, the other one doesn't want to give it.

You hate to see yourself do one draft of a script and then have somebody else come back in and change what you've done.

You get something, but for that you make a pact with the devil.

Sometimes I take a movie that I know is not great; it's not great on the page, but I need to work. Sometimes I need to make the money. I need dough. I want to work, and so I'll take something that is compromised in some arena. But it's like, actors gotta act.

I think, a lot of times, we find ourselves in a relationship where we are on two different pages.

I don't know what's better gettin' laid or gettin' paid.

Sometimes compromise is painful.