Anna Deavere Smith Quotes

Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.

If one of my players ever wants to hit me, he better do it really hard because otherwise, I'll find a rock, a stick, or a piece of wood - and believe me, it's gonna be a brawl.

These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence.

If he could hurt you, Bill Romanowski would hurt you.

Sometimes you knock someone out, sometimes you just beat 'em.

I challenged Coleman and he accepted, he said he'd fight me. I pointed at Baroni and challenged him too, he looked at me with a bewildered look on his face and asked: "Me?", I said "Thats right, You!!" I also challenged Quinton Jackson and he looked at me and said "Me too?", and I responded. If you want some, there is some for you too!

I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

The fact is that violence gives you a rush.

I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea.

Violence is not funny.

Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.

I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down.

I've never been in a barroom brawl in my life. I just don't do such things.

There's more than one way to sense violence.

You don't know who you messing with man, I slap people for fun. That's what I do man! You wanna play rough, huh, I kill for fun!

When a guy takes off his coat, he's not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!

You know, violence, I think, knocks on everyone's door.

I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.

I don't have a dark side at all. I just like violence.

I have a kind of magnetic attraction to situations of violence.

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.

Actual violence has no attraction for me at all.

I see this fella built like a barn door... and there's all these fox hunters, who didn't like me, screaming and shouting and as I walked past him I looked at him and he hit me with something.

Violence is a calm that disturbs you.

Violence is a tool of the ignorant.