Prefer Quotes

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

I prefer working on films. I like the variety. There is nothing better than playing a bad girl for two months, then playing someone sweet for the next two. Films give you this opportunity.

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

I always prefer the big laugh. That is always the objective, especially with a film like Scary Movie 2.

Although I am a public figure, I'm still a little shy. I don't think my own personality is important. I prefer to keep some small dosage of privacy.

Sometimes when my mom finds a fun article and really wants me to read it, I will. But I prefer to just kind of focus on what I want to do and not really what other people are saying, because I don't want that to affect me too much.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

It really doesn't matter whether it's the villain or the hero. Sometimes the villain is the most colorful. But I prefer a part where you don't know what he is until the end.

My process is to be by myself when I record. It's quite an emotional performance to pull off when someone else is in the room. I prefer to go away and have my own time with it, bring it in later.

I think it's fine for girls to ask boys out. I actually prefer it.

I much prefer playing the bad guys. I think they are always the most interesting characters. I liken it to painting: if you're playing the good guy, you get three colors: red, white and blue. But if you're the bad guy, you get the whole palette.

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.

I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.

I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.

In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on 'The Simpsons,' for example, because I find that the director can just focus on what I'm doing and I can do a lot of variations. A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two.

I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.