I’ve stood up to producers before, and even a director. I saw them being abusive. A lot of people on the set are scared to say stuff when they’re not being treated right. – Natalie Portman
I was about 26 or 27 and it was imperative that I make a living right away and it’s hard to make a living on stage, so I started in television and film. – David Duchovny
There are fewer and fewer new roles for actresses as they get older. And that’s not right. – Michelle Fairley
I was a left hooker, and I loved hooking. I also really liked to jab and mix it up right away. – Gerry Cooney
The times that I have done something that I didn’t respond to emotionally right away, it’s generally not worked out too well. – Natalie Wood
When Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982, the U.N. vetoed several resolutions right away, calling for an end to the fighting and so on, and that was a hideous invasion. – Noam Chomsky
I was thrown into the Parliament right away. From 1976 to 1978 I was concerned with the abortion issue, later on with that of divorce. – Emma Bonino
I used to set out and do a film and say, ‘This is going to be the biggest film I’ve ever done.’ But that’s not the right approach. The approach should be the work. – Elijah Kelley
People feel like the system is rigged against them, and here is the painful part, they’re right. The system is rigged. – Elizabeth Warren
No convention on God’s foot-stool can, or has a right to, run me and make anything but a Democrat out of me. – Melville Fuller
A lot of my role is advocacy, and as a scientist, you’re an advocate, too, because you are coming up with a theory and having to convince your fellow scientists that you’re right. – Ellen Stofan
That’s what supporting the troops is really all about – making sure American grunts get the right stuff! – David Hackworth
It’s really wonderful to be able to be nobody, and then have a moment when I can be somebody, and then go right back to being nobody again. – Natalie Merchant
Sometime in the not too distant future, denying gays the right to marry will be viewed as historically corrupt – as corrupt as denying slaves their freedom. – Mark McKinnon
I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
Every Israeli government since 1967, of left or right, has asserted that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital and has allowed Israeli Jews to build there. – Elliott Abrams
History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right. – George H. W. Bush
