Quotes About Public

Hypocrisy is the scarlet letter in politics.

I think there's something basically wrong with the general public that they do need their icons.

Those were the ideals that drove us to nationalization of the health service.

I would say, up until 'Anchorman,' I wasn't any kind of household name or anything, but I wasn't necessarily identified as much with being a comedian.

I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.

If we tried to write about politics, you'd realize that we're all a bunch of idiots.

When I first became famous, I didn't know if I could go where I wanted to because I didn't know how people were going to act. Some folks would scream and holler, and I didn't know what to do with that.

It's very hard for politicians to ignore even just a handful of letters about the same issue.

Advocates of unrestricted abortion do not want the public to focus on these undeniable facts of fetal development, but the facts cannot be ignored.

The science-denial machinery is a serious adversary, and it has a big advantage over real science: it does not need to win its dispute with real science; it just needs to create a public illusion that there is a dispute.

I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget my debt to them.

I keep the bad-boy image just to make my fans happy.

I still have this image: I can't be controversial, I can't say things.

Of course, that is true of a lot of people, whether they drink or not - celebrities or actors have an image they've created, and an image people like of them.

I think with most all of us, we want control of our image - it's part of the work that we do.

Did I say that the President's entire job is image management? Of course not.

The language of the moment or, as it were, the language of the order in which we live, is the image. I felt that if I wanted to commune with the public, I should best do so through the language of image. It's a conscious embrace of a contradiction.

Many people have this image of me. For a long time, I cared about that.

I don't care about my image.

Humiliating events have a way of capturing the public's imagination. So it has been since antiquity, when gladiators were pitted against each other and the legions of Spartacus were crucified in endless rows on the way to Rome.

There was never a moment when I was like, 'I'm going to enter the public conversation on the importance of female nudity.'

Public sharing is an important part of science.

I personally feel that an actor should not take an important part in politics.

Our healthcare system should seek to improve the health of the most people possible.