Patrick Wilson Quotes

When you're being mean to someone, you can feel the audience just get cold.

We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.

I would hope that people didn't think I was anything like Joan! It's very hard for me because Joan says such cruel things all the time. It sort of makes me cringe every time I read them because I think, 'Who could be so horrible?' To be able to deliver those lines and do them with a coolness, yet still make her likable, is a bit of a challenge.

It doesn't make you feel very good being mean and fierce; it is much nicer playing people who are kind and sweet.

Being mean about other people isn't on my radar.

In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.

If you're mean to a gentle man, it makes your meanness worse.

I have so many people out there that celebrate with me when they know that I'm happy. And they hate it when they know that I'm suffering because someone has hurt me.

With bullying and all the stuff going on, words are very important. Words can be more hurtful than anything physically. I got little kids, and it's common sense when you're raising them that the main thing is how you talk to people, and how you treat people. Sometimes I think the world forgets that as we get older.

Rudeness is not having fun, and if it is, it's at the expense of another person.

Every one of us knows how painful it is to be called by malicious names, to have his character undermined by false insinuations, to be overreached in a bargain, to be neglected by those who rise in life, to be thrust on one side by those who have stronger wills and stouter hearts. Every one knows, also, the pleasure of receiving a kind look, a warm greeting, a hand held out to help in distress, a difficulty solved, a higher hope revealed for this world or the next. By that pain and by that pleasure let us judge what we should do to others.

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

As much as it hurts, I would rather miss someone than hit someone.

I don't mind being called snobbish, a pain and a social climber, but being called unkind really hurts.

I can't stand cruel people. And if I see people doing something mean to somebody else just to make themselves feel important, it really gets me mad.

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

I don't like yelling insults at someone who's never done anything to me.

We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.

Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.

It's better to use a curse word than to hurt somebody else, I find.

It's mean to make fun of anybody for the way they look.

Everybody we meet has an influence on us and an impact - good or bad. And I think that's why we have to be careful with the way we handle people because what we're doing is making an impact.

I want to be remembered as a nice person who didn't hurt people - except my ex-husbands, maybe.

Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.