Barry Neil Kaufman Quotes

We would not have to forgive people if we didn't judge them in the first place.

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• Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Enemies
  • Forgive
  • Annoy

• I try genuinely, when I'm playing a character, to not judge them and just to inhabit someone as how one sees them. That being said, you also want to make sure that you don't blur the edges of people too much because humans are naughty and complicated beings.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Character
  • Judge

• When you're representing a sport, people are more likely to judge and comment as, unlike other fields, sport permits every viewer to participate to a certain level.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • People
  • You
  • Judge

• We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Strong
  • Forgiveness
  • Forgive

• I'm trying to convey to my audience that you really can't judge a book by its cover, and there's more to the universe than you can see with your eyes.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Trying
  • Book
  • Eyes

• A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Forgive

• It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Work
  • Forgiveness
  • Forgive

• Judge: a law student who marks his own examination-papers.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Law
  • Judge
  • Student

• I will tell you, I'm a lousy cook, but I think I'm a pretty good judge of a good meal.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Good
  • Think
  • Pretty

• You can forgive somebody and still believe they need a consequence.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Believe
  • You
  • Forgive

• You don't judge a book by a cover. I'm not your typical rap look.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Book
  • Judge
  • Look

• I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards - When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • World
  • God
  • Men

• If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Wisdom
  • Judge

• Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a Judge's chamber can believe in an unprejudiced point of view but, simply in self-interest, the biographer must try for one, or make us believe he has, or tell us that he hasn't.

  

  Lillian Hellman
  • Believe
  • Baby
  • Judge

• What sentence shall be given on mine? Of man, As ill or well God means me, well or ill Shall judgment pass upon me : but of God, If God himself be righteous or be God, Who being unrighteous were but god of hell, The sentence given shall judge me just...

  

  Algernon Charles Swinburne
  • God
  • Judge

• Ah! Do not judge the gods, young man, they have painful secrets.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Judge

• I don't really judge. To each his own. You like what you like.

  

  Martin Lawrence
  • Judge

• I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

  

  Dorothy Day
  • People
  • Believe
  • Long

• The more I'm here in L.A. talking to people, the more I believe that what I've been doing is right, and that's the belief that you have to judge a role from the character, by the script.

  

  Vicky Krieps
  • People
  • Believe
  • Character

• How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished, and still enjoy what one does, is unimaginable to me.

  

  Anna Freud
  • Live
  • Judge

• The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Bad

• And so, onwards... along a path of wisdom, with a hearty tread, a hearty confidence.. however you may be, be your own source of experience. Throw off your discontent about your nature. Forgive yourself your own self. You have it in your power to merge everything you have lived through- false starts, errors, delusions, passions, your loves and your hopes- into your goal, with nothing left over.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Wisdom
  • Confidence
  • Forgive

• It is impossible that happiness, and yearning for what is not present, should ever be united.

  

  Epictetus
  • Present
  • Happiness
  • Impossible

• We would not have to forgive people if we didn't judge them in the first place.

  

  Barry Neil Kaufman
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