Chuck Todd Quotes

I don't think that there is a person that I've met - I'm sure there are - that I've had any conflict with.

I don't fight people for fun.

For storytelling purposes, there has to be conflict, but that doesn't mean the people have to be mean. I've never liked mean-spirited comedy.

When you're a writer, you're always looking for conflict. It's conflict that drives great stories.

Any kind of conflict draws me to a role.

To be honest with you, most of the times I have fought, there has been a reason.

I'm interested in conflict and confrontation.

Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

I don't avoid confrontation, people should know that.

I don't like to be feared, and I can't work in conflict, I'm very bad with conflict. I try to avoid it, it paralyzes me.

Next to coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.

The passions are the same in every conflict, large or small.

It's kinda cool seeing people having real fights with people they really know.

I've had two fights within a month and I can't ask for more than that.

You can't get away from violence in drama. If you do not have conflict, you do not have drama.

Presidents do not like to preside over such disagreements and scenes. That’s what presidential aides are for.

You're either in a conflict or you're not in a conflict.

To be a great leader, one unfortunately needs a war.

Fighting is one of those things that gets tons of attention, far more than it deserves.

You won't have a story unless you have conflict, which means if there's no conflict in a situation, people look for a way to make some.

At the heart of any drama, there's conflict. When you are acting, you get to play out the confrontations you want to have in real life but can't. Or the emotions that you would want to have in real life, but sometimes they are too difficult.

Repetition is hell. How can we get out of those cycles of violence? How come we are still today talking about peace in Israel? How come we're not able to find a solution yet? Something that will bring peace in this part of the world? It's the same in a lot of places in the world right now. How come we are not able to find peace?

I'm only confrontational with my friends.

Anytime anyone of my friends in my camp, if we argue, we gonna fight for real.