Bad Quotes

It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private exertions; but it is no less bad policy to let those things alone which can only be promoted by interfering social power.

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

I spent most of my high school years on movie sets and I'd have like one teacher, which was really bad.

I wanted to play a good guy after doing this lunatic on The Sopranos for two years. And then they did the sequel to Bad Boys, where I get to play the barking captain again.

I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.

Then I got a bad back injury, and they thought I wasn't going to have any feeling in my legs.

It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation.

By March '87 we're down to seven thousand, by the end of the year we're down to twelve hundred. The whole bottom just fell out of the market. It was bad for me because I was in Australia at the time.

Most animals are built to withstand one bad year.

When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'

A woman today is good, or she is bad, according to the way she does a thing - and not because of the thing itself.

I don't read reviews because if they're bad I'm devastated and if they're good I get a big head.

There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.

The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional.

From a very young age, militarism and trying to solve the world's problems through militarism is something that has always resonated with me as being a bad idea.

I try to be bad, but nobody will let me.

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

Nobody's really unsympathetic, I think. People do good and bad things. If a character's totally unsympathetic, they're not real and I'm not interested. Even the real monsters have to have a spark of something you can relate to.

Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.

I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?

There are good characters and bad characters.

We have defeated Saddam Hussein and Iraq. The good news is Iraq is ours, and the bad news is Iraq is ours.

Not that being so mature is a bad thing, but there are times to be mature and there are times to be loose.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

It's a joke to think that anyone is one thing. We're all such complex creatures. But if I'm going to be a poster child for anything, anger's a gorgeous emotion. It gets a bad rap, but it can make great changes happen.

If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?

I have this horrific thing where I'm really bad with names and faces. I have an appalling memory. Someone will come up to me in the street and go, 'Eddie!', and I'll try and give myself time by going into overdrive, 'Hey, hi! Nice to see you!' and start a whole conversation because I can't distinguish between who I know and who I don't.

Nowadays, if a studio assumes that his film is bad, there is always an executive that gets more nervous than usual and thinks that if they change the music, the film will become a masterpiece.

It's bad when you fail morally. It's worse when you don't repent.

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.