Aneurin Barnard Quotes

As crises came up later on - "Oh, we have to compromise, and the record company wants to do this," I'd be like, "No, I don't have to."

I would have happily done 'Bourne Legacy,' but a lot of decisions are made for you.

It's not everybody that can handle firing Denzel Washington or coming to blows and saying, 'This is what's happening because I said so.' Usually, it's the reverse.

When you are making a movie, there are a zillion cooks in the kitchen, and you don't always get what you want to do. The story can always go in a different direction than what you would like. You compromise, and there is dealing and bickering.

In Washington, as we learned from the White House transcripts, a president may speak of kicking butts, call a problem a can of worms, decide not to be in the position of basically hunkering down, anticipate something hitting the fan, propose to tough it through, sight minefields down the road, see somebody playing hard ball, claim political savvy, and wonder what stroke some of his associates have with others.

It's always scarier saying 'No.' As an actress, I can say 'Yes' to more. But sometimes, as a stunt-woman, I have to say 'No.'

When you expect to get into a negotiation, you expect to be faced by a guy that's going to attack you, a guy or gal that's going to attack or that they're going to try to get the best of you. Two-thirds of us, that makes us very defensive.

There are a lot of things behind a negotiation process.

I've had to tell people that I'm not co-writing. I don't want to do it and that's that.

So are we going to continue glaring angrily at each other while we pose in our tough stances? Or use our time to work out a plan that hopefully doesn’t end with our mutual deaths? (Acheron)

I love to negotiate things, I do it really well, and all that stuff. But it's possible I won't be able to get along with Putin.

We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.

Never argue when you're winning.

Always remember, however sure you are that you could easily win, that there would not be a war if the other man did not think he also had a chance.

If you shoot, I will kill her before I die." Yes," Kitai said in a patient tone. "Which is why I have not shot you. Yet.

I get the reason that you should be willing to negotiate sometimes. But you also ought to be willing to throw a punch.

You negotiate in bad faith if you do not forgive your adversary.

There is a point beyond which conciliation looks like capitulation. I do not believe I passed that point, but others have thought otherwise.

A good compromise leaves everyone angry.

I’m not leaving,” Sam said, his eyes fixed on the boy he was holding. “Not until Disney Princess here apologizes, or his head comes off, one of the two.

I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody a chance to get sore at everybody else. Sometimes it takes two or three conferences to scare up a war, but generally one will do it.

When you get in the mud with a pig, you get dirty and the pig gets happy.

When I was on Saturday Night Live, I was furious at some of the choices that were being made. None of us are all happy about every choice that's being made, but that's another part about being there for a while. You start seeing why they do it, and you've just got to try to get your punches in while you can.

The only power an actor has is the ability to say "no."

When a nation issues ultimatums, it leaves no room for compromise and ensures that war will continue.