Allen Iverson Quotes

Everybody, even me, sometimes had to compromise on something, doing things we know to be wrong, and this happens doing whatever job in the world. But a singer must have the courage of saying no.

I don't feel comfortable with the glorification of violence. But, as an actor who has had long periods of unemployment, you have to be lenient with your convictions.

Ultimately, I am an employee of a corporation, and that's weird and does contradict some of the things I believe in. But at the same time, I have to make a living.

I so rarely turned down a role, that I can't say I have any regrets in that regard. There were many roles that I would rather not have done, but having a home and family requires that we sometimes do things we would rather not.

I was going to become a youth worker because I do voluntary work with the kids in the little village where I live. I make little films with them and stuff when I'm not working. I thought, I'll pack it in then, and go and do something I love doing, and get a regular job because I've got two kids and a mortgage.

I have a very difficult, high-pressured job. Everyone knows how challenging it is to balance family responsibilities with a job that takes me across the country and working extremely hard.

Sometimes people with strong ideology, whether left-wing or right-wing, refuse to do something simply because they believe it is wrong, when doing it actually benefits them. For some people, it's not just about money and political power.

Often jobs are un-turndownable even before you read the script. You go, 'Well, I have to do that.'

If I had a choice about going to a meeting at a studio or changing a nappy, I'd choose the nappy.

It is true that as you have children, there are a good many months when you don't want to be working full-time. I agree that that's an issue.

You want to live in a world where people have access to the news–in other words, documentary evidence of what is really happening. And an ISIS video of hostages being beheaded is both an act of propaganda and is itself a fact.... If you're a platform, you don't want to suppress the facts. On the other hand, you don't want to participate in advancing propaganda. And there is the conundrum.

Governments almost never act with moral clarity and for very good reason. They are dealing with competing interests.

The media is like the terrain and weather. It is a fact; it's nothing you can change. You have to learn to deal with it. And it isn't bad or good, it's just there. I don't think we should put limits on the press, unless it's for security reasons or for reasons of risk in the case of an operation. We value freedom of the press. It's something we are fighting for. It's part of the constitutional rights that we swear our allegiance to. We just have to accept it and learn to deal with it in a right way, and give and take.

Ethics and Washington DC. Are they mutually exclusive?

Striking bargains with repressive regimes does require making moral compromises .

Once you “volunteer” and engage in self-censorship something happens to your conscience.

It was a morally representative act. Helms withheld the information because it would have cost him his job.

We are engaged in the defense of a way of life, and the great danger was that in defending this way of life we will find ourselves resorting to methods that endangered this way of life.

Some people go to their job. That's the job they have; they have to do it. They hate their boss and their coworkers, this and that. It's hard to get along.

When you work in television, working for a big corporation, no matter who you are, you can always get cancelled. That sucks. Do you really want to work with an axe over your head for the rest of your life? Not me, not really, and not if you don't have to.

One of the major issues that's constantly batted around Hollywood and the media is my industry's responsibility toward the portrayal of violence. There's the irony of the films that glorify it and the individuals taking positions against it. It's a very confusing, confounding place.

I like to choose the people I take photographs of, but when you make your living off it, you've got to take everybody.

Oliver Darcy is a perpetual victim. He is constantly advocating for people to be banned and silenced. As a member of the media, Oliver Darcy should respect our First Amendment right.

I won't be a pundit because you have to be saying certain things that you might not even want to, but you have to.

I feel extremely guilty that I've had to put team-mates through extra media questions.