Entitled Quotes

Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown.

Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.

A person is entitled to be buried whole.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

I want to get away from the social vampires in Tucson. The people who have no lives of their own and meet me and know who I am and feel entitled to say negative things. I have good friends here, especially in the bands. But a lot of it is just like high school.

There's nothing that irritates Americans more than the fact that some members of Congress think they are entitled to their own set of rules. And it's true - too many people in Washington live in an alternate reality.

I believe I am entitled like any other person to have the presumption of innocence.

I remain committed to improving the government services to which Hudson Valley veterans are entitled.

If half-black Barack Obama had decided years ago to call himself white - which his genes certainly entitled him to do - his story would have carried very different meaning. If millions of part-black people had followed him into whiteness, then the N.A.A.C.P. would be in true crisis.

I think people are entitled to march without a permit. When you have a few hundred thousand people on the street you have permission.

You're entitled to Medicaid regardless of your income. Don't worry about your health care.

Ask everyone whether they're an actor or a doctor or a teacher or whatever is entitled to his or her opinion. But unfortunately, because actors are in the public eye, whether we want it or not, sometimes our opinions carry more weight or influence than they deserve.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.

You cannot prove this in real time, but when economists 20 years from now write a book on the recovery, it may well be entitled, 'It could have been much better.'

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, which people don't seem to be shy about expressing.

One's nativity is not of his own choosing, but whatever it may be, it is entitled to respect; and all nations have honorable place in the world's family.

Nations are equal in respect to each other, and entitled to claim equal consideration for their rights, whatever may be their relative dimensions or strength or however greatly they may differ in government, religion or manners.

I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.

My hard work and excellent training entitled me to be a better actress than some of my competitors.

The public is entitled to know whether or not I am married to Jack The Ripper.

I felt that I had worked hard my entire life and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me. I felt I was entitled, and thanks to money and fame, I didn't have to go far to find them.

It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it.

I believe the American people are entitled to some straight talk when it comes to higher education funding.

We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.

Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.

But one way or another, judges perform a very vital function in our society. They have a risky job and they are entitled to security.