Refuse Quotes

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer.

It is amazing how the public steadfastly refuse to attend the third day of a match when so often the last day produces the best and most exciting cricket.

I refuse to go into a fast-food outlet - to use the toilet even - in case anyone got the wrong idea and thought I was sneaking in a quick burger.

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.

I refuse to be stereotyped.

To me that's part of my working day, and I would never refuse a job where I'm under several hours of makeup, because as an actor, I enjoy performing. It's about the creation of the character and the art to me, not about being comfortable and how long it all takes.

It is kindness to immediately refuse what you intend to deny.

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.

It would almost need a Mafia-like offer I couldn't refuse to do another movie.

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.

I refuse to dance. And I can't dance anyway. I'm not in a band for that.

I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.

Things got so bad that when I went shopping for a house, some people would refuse to open the door if they saw it was me standing there. And drunks would always want to challenge me.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

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.

I know it is a somewhat delicate matter to refuse a gift, but in this case the statue is so atrocious that every endeavour should be made to keep it out of the church.

I've still got it. I refuse to lose.

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

I refuse to sit on my laurels.

Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.

Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.

I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.

My belief in God is responsible for what I am... How can I refuse to talk about something which is so much a prt of my life both as a man and as a actor?

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

We were totally unprepared for such a large quantity of visitors, and in view of the preservation of the antiquities they being very crowded and in poor preservation, we were obliged to refuse admission until some preparation was made to safeguard the objects.

What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse?

'Know your enemy, name your enemy' is a 9/11 message that has gone unheeded. Our immigration and homeland security policies refuse to profile jihadi adherents at foreign consular offices and at our borders.

I refuse to be held responsible for bringing back a wave of pasty-faced people into the world.

A student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my advice as to whether it is worth while to continue her studies. I invariably refuse such requests.