Soapbox Quotes

My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.

If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.

I'm not sitting on a soapbox telling women what they should and shouldn't do, but I know what works for me.

From my experience, politicians are much more uncomfortable being made fun of than they are being preached at and screeched at - you know, and the soapbox routine. They're much more uneasy knowing they're a target of ridicule.

As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear.

I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place. I never want to be part of something like that, where there's an agenda there that's not about telling a story, where its someone getting on a soapbox and preaching their own beliefs onto somebody.

One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.