Quotes About Upending

I'm attracted to polarizing characters who upend the civility of life.

Tea Party adherents are actually more religion-driven and more anti-abortion than the party they are supposedly upending.

People have expectations from you - and the whole fun of acting is taking expectations and completely upending them. That's how you get laughs in comedy, and that's how you scare the daylights out of people in a horror film.

I like to play with transgression and upending conventions, and I like the idea of rooting genre films in character.

There's something to be said for a likable character, but fiction has a way of upending our ordinary standards.

A courtroom is supposed to be a place where the status quo can be disrupted - even upended - when the Constitution or laws may require, where the comfortable can be afflicted and the afflicted find some comfort, all under the shelter of the law.

Writer and director Aislinn Clarke doesn't use the phrase elevated horror. But she has suggested that a difference does exist between something being "scary" and true, lingering horror. The creation of horror depends on upending convention and, she suggests, should "punch up" against those in power rather than "merely making monsters of those at the bottom

The time was fast approaching when the first should be last and the last should be first.