Stephan Pastis Quotes

There's something about me that makes a lot of people want to throw up.

I never feel any aggravation from the public.

I never really expected to be controversial.

I think you kind of hope for people to gush over movies, but I think the opposite way is great sometimes, too. I'd rather have a movie that you're angry about and that you're talking about the next day, than something you forget about when the popcorn goes into the trash.

Many people love me, many people hate me - there's nobody in between. That's the way I prefer it.

I am someone who gets pretty worked up.

There are certain people who elicit a really passionate response. It's crazy. That's my Alexander Wang theory.

There's not a day that goes by that I don't get an email from someone who is angry with me and tells me they're not going to let their kid listen to Imagine Dragons anymore.

I don't want people to say, 'So, what do you think about that Cher?' and for them to reply, 'She's okay.' Okay is not good enough. I want them to either love me or to completely despise me - I mean, call me all the names under the sun. I love it.

Love me or hate me, it's all in my favor. If you love me, I'll always be in your heart. If you hate me, I'll always be in your mind.

I think, as long as people have a strong opinion, whether they love or hate us, I think we're doing something right.

We have this joke in England that half the people want me to be prime minister, and the other half want me shot.

I find that people love to hate me, and a lot of people love to love me.

I've been quoting the book [on Peter Sutcliffe] constantly in rehearsals. Some members of the cast have stated their disapproval that it should even have been written. Some of the women have expressed more - disgust and anger. What are they saying? They'd prefer not to know, not to understand? They'd prefer certain areas of life to be censored? Isn't that partly what breeds the Sutcliffes and the Nilsens?

[Margaret Thatcher] aroused such strong loathing in so many people. That's the fact that interests me.

You had to stand in line to hate him.

First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.

For a lot of people, their first love is what they'll always remember. For me it's always been the first hate, and I think that hatred, though it provides often rather junky energy, is a terrific way of getting you out of bed in the morning and keeping you going.

What is true, though, is now we've got a bunch of videos that whatever side of the issue you're on, raises the temperature on these issues and makes people really focused .

Excitement always leads to tears.

One of the questions I often get asked is, "Were you surprised that Trump won?" I always answer the same way: "I was surprised, I am surprised and I will never stop being surprised."

When I've gotten criticism, it's that it's too long, too soft, didn't hit the government hard enough. Then when I do hit the government, they go, What's he doing hitting the government?

The secret of successful journalism is to make your readers so angry they will write half your paper for you.

Her heart went out to him with a stronger movement than ever, at the thought that people would blame him. Maggie hated blame; she had been blamed her whole life, and nothing had come of it but evil tempers.

I got an email from somebody who's mad, and from the sound of it it's enough to make this person abandon [Donald] Trump.