Graydon Carter Quotes

Every character has their reasons - even the characters who do dumb things.

For me, the most interesting people are ones who often work against their best interests. Bad choices. They go in directions where you go, 'No no no nooo!' You push away someone who is trying to love you, you hurt someone who's trying to get your trust, or you love someone you shouldn't.

All writers behave badly. All people behave badly.

People who act against their own best interests are interesting characters.

...an economic ignoramus unfit to oversee a fifty-cent raffle.

When the now-infamous Donald Trump-Billy Bush audio feed was released, my confidence in Trump all but evaporated.

There are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence.

I - look, I, you know, I find Donald Trump completely un-presidential, unacceptable. I don't like his methods. I don't think he's got any policies.

Over the course of history, governments, political regimes, and leaders have done some stupid things despite all arguments to the contrary, at times even against their own self-interest.

I am very impulsive and very stupid sometimes, but I am very clean.

I want to do interesting characters with depth, which are a part of great stories. In fact, if the character is quirky and challenging, that's even better.

I'm not good at answering questions. I always get myself into trouble.

When someone keeps doing something, you say that that isn't him, he is just making some bad decisions. Sometimes those decisions reflect the person.

Being young and dumb, honestly, you pick up some bad habits.

Creative directors can be egocentric, they say. I decide; they shout at people and harass. I don't want that.

As a young man, I was an absolute idiot. I think my exes would say I was a likeable baby. I had a teenager's bedroom when I was 32.

Humans are startlingly bad at detecting fraud. Even when we're on the lookout for signs of deception, studies show, our accuracy is hardly better than chance.

That's kind of a classless move to celebrate when a guy is injured.

I have been shocked at some senior actors who made lewd comments on my body. They think it is normal, and in fact, I thought it was normal. But, much later, I failed to see how that is a normal thing.

There is an old maxim which states that good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from poor judgment. I think something similar can be said of government policy, to wit: Good policy comes from experience, and experience comes from poor policy.

I don't make the right choices. I simply don't.

I've been saying inappropriate things since I was a kid.

Why bad people - who are bad to other people - keep getting hired after they have proven their selves time and again is a mystery to me.

At this point, I just do whatever... I want, to my detriment.

I knew the shirt-swapping business in general was getting out of hand when opponents would ask me for my shirt while we were still mid-match. Those are the wrong priorities.