Terry Jones Quotes

I wish people would be a bit more aware of how their actions affect everyone around them.

I think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are always known to be well mannered and cold but we are not cold - we don't interfere in your situation. If we are heartbroken, we don't scream in your face with tears - we go home and cry on our own.

I once said some mean things about someone, and they were standing right behind me. That experience taught me to never talk bad about anyone.

Make a careful list of all things done to you that you abhorred. Don't do them to others, ever.

I don't like to hurt people's feelings, and I don't like to knock other writers as a matter of principle.

When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.

I think a novelist must be more tender with living or 'real' people. The moral imperative of having been entrusted with their story looms before you every day, in every sentence.

I'm sensitive, and I don't ever want to make anyone feel uncomfortable.

I feel a real need to observe a level of propriety in what I'm handing out. Instead of me just venting or spilling my guts, I've got to consider how it's going to affect people. How it's going to affect me, as well. Because it's like a cycle.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

I don't want to go about offending people; that's not my plan.

In my mind, as long as I did what was right for me, I was cool. But that's not the way it works. You have to think about other people and take their feelings into account.

None of this was written to hurt anybody's feelings.

I try to lead by example, being conscious of others and being responsible.

You really have to be careful about what you do and think about other people around you, as human beings who feel things, and you have to learn to be empathetic and notice the signs of people who are going through trouble.

I don't have anything to hide, but prefer to shine the spotlight on others.

Being sensitive means caring for your own feelings as well as those of others.

True brothers don't let other brothers go down this path of irreparably damaging another human being as well as their own lives.

As a filmmaker, I'm interminably curious and nosy, but certain times you meet people and think, 'I don't want to push you too hard because I can see this is painful for you.'

Before being CM, I am a human.

I'm just a swell guy. No, that's a ridiculous notion - if you're being an asshole to people, you're being an asshole, that's all there is to it. It can't be rationalized because you wrote something worthwhile. First obligation is to other people.

God knows, I never want to hurt someone's feelings.

What I learned in the military is that gossip starts early and it stays forever.

People have a right to ask questions and dig deep when you're hurting people and things around you.

You can't lie down in the ashes of another person's life.