Barry Neil Kaufman Quotes

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

Barry Neil Kaufman

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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

• I had to fight to be me and get respect, and to carry that stigma, for me, is pride. Carrying the tag of lesbian. I'm not bragging, I'm not preaching, but I don't deny it . I had to face society, the Church, which says damn gay people ... it's absurd. How do you judge someone who has been born that way. I did not study to be a lesbian. Neither was it taught to me. I was born this way. Since I opened my eyes to the world. I've never slept with a man. Never. I'm pure, I don't have to be ashamed ... My Gods made me so.

  

  Isabel Vargas Lizano
  • People
  • World
  • Society

• The case is closed, Mr. Poldark. You will kindly step down.” “Otherwise,” said Dr. Halse, “we will have you committed for contempt of court.” Ross bowed slightly. “I can only assure you, sir, that such a committal would be a reading of my inmost thoughts.

  

  Winston Grime
  • Court
  • Case
  • Contempt

• ... one thing I've learned in caving is always to be two hundred percent sure.

  

  Caroline Llewellyn
  • Learned
  • To Be
  • Sure

• Theater is about interpretation and what an actor and what a director brings to a piece too. I'm open to it every time I work with a director and a group of actors. I have to be open to that interpretation. I'm not one of those hysterical playwrights that come and say, "This is not what I intended to do." It's one rendition of the piece.

  

  Nilo Cruz
  • Actor
  • Theater
  • Director

• We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Book

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

  

  Barry Neil Kaufman
  • Judge
  • Forgive
  • First Place