Quotes About Confrontation

Denial is a very powerful thing.

In the Depression especially, I think you learn to face problems and not run away from them.

If I desired to kill the senator why did I not do it? You all admit that I had him in my power.

If you can't stop somebody from working and making movies that you hate, what's the next best thing? Destroy them personally.

I don't really like conflict at all, and I really find conflict pretty devastating. I try to avoid it at all costs.

A battle is developing between them' I say developing, because it's not yet on.

If you're going to talk about the devil, at some point you've got to meet the devil.

Bro, how are you going to tap on the neck, on the choke? Go to sleep, man. Be a man.

Many people are target people. Once when Louis B. Mayer insulted me I poured a glass of water over his head.

Saying 'I am not interested in politics' is no guarantee that people will leave you alone. The politically-inclined will single you out as a soft target and go after you.

I've gotten stopped for reckless eyeballing, for staring too hard. These officers think they're Tarzan and this is a jungle, that all the animals need to be tamed.

I make my films because I'm affected by a situation, by something that makes me want to reflect on it, that lends itself to an artistic reflection. I always aim to look directly at what I'm dealing with. I think it's a task of dramatic art to confront us with things that in the entertainment industry are usually swept under the rug.

If I'm at a book signing, and someone decides to take me to task, it can make for quite a sticky moment.

You cant argue the tasks with a despotic autocrat. It doesnt work.

I have a huge fear of birds, but I truly believe in facing your fears head-on, so, I now have two sparrows tattooed on the back of my arms.

There's something very... spiritual about fighting. It's physically very challenging. It's for killing people, after all, so it's taught me how to look at something head on. It's like living - confronting something. Everything for me came from films.

You can't punch people in the face, punch people in the face, punch people in the face, and ask them to have tea and crumpets with you and think it's all good. Life doesn't work that way.

This is a tough game. You can't be intimidated. You can't be frightened. And as far as I'm concerned, the Tea Party can go straight to hell.

My dad always told me to stand up to bullies, and Bill O'Reilly is kind of a bully, and he's the kind of kid who hits other kids on the playground. And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, 'Teacher, sue him.'

Why did you come here?" he asked at last "Because you hit me on the head and dragged me here." If I was going to die, I was going to go in true Rose style

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I'll kill her, you know. The queen, not Natalie. Screw the guardians. I'll do it. She can't get away with that.

Angeline's personal space because Angeline punched her too.

We can retreat and retreat and let ourselves get backed into corners forever," she'd said once. "Or we can go out and meet the enemy at the time and place we choose. Not them.