Bad Quotes

The Boomers have modeled a set of bad habits, and one grand gesture is not going to unwind all those bad habits.

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.

In third grade, I was taking tap-dance lessons, and about six weeks before the recital I wanted to quit. My mom said, 'No, you're going to stay with it.' Well, I did it, and I was bad, too! But my parents never let their kids walk away from something because it was too hard.

If you want someone to show up and help you if something bad happens, you'd better tell someone where you're going. And of course I wanted someone to know - but I'd made a choice and it was a choice I was going to have to live with.

In and of itself, keeping the country safe for business is not a bad thing.

I just have more fun when I get to try new things - and the action film genre has kind of painted itself into a corner, copied itself so many times and it has basically run out of bad buys.

I originally envisioned myself doing something with the suffix 'ology' at the end of it, like marine biology or entomology. But after I started to do some acting gigs, I thought it wasn't a bad thing... I said to myself, 'I might as well keep riding this bus until the wheels fall off.'

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.

Every actor will tell you it's so much more fun to play the bad guy because usually those characters are more complex and more broad and more interesting, and have more sides to them.

You have to change things in order to get to where you want to go. And things might get worse. But if you're not getting where you want to be, already, in a sense, it's as bad as it can get.

If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.

Now what do you get in the Army? Bad helmets and Basra. Your guns don't work and everyone hates you when you come back.

It takes two sides to make a deal, two sides to negotiate and two sides to make it go bad.

I've tried like hell to make bad movies good, and I can't. Maybe Marlon Brando has been able to do that at times. But even he has a hard time making 'The Appaloosa' a good movie.

There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.

Good judgement comes from experience. Sometimes, experience comes from bad judgement.

When you are new to the business, you think if you give a really bad performance, that's one they will print. You will be judged. You just have to be brave.

Juggling work and parental responsibilities is no easy task, but I'm trying my best and just like everything else there are good days and there are bad days.

What might be good for ratings can be bad for the country. The hard-core partisans are self-segregating themselves into separate political realities. But the majority of Americans are starting to wake up to the game.

Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Just because you say something doesn't make it controversial, and it doesn't make you a bad person.

It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.

I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn't try to run their lives.

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

Talking about food is like talking about your dreams. Everyone has something to say. We all have to eat, it's just what we eat which differs. Some people eat for fuel and I feel bad for them.

There are lots of bad Republicans, there are no good Democrats.

But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship.