Nathan Lane Quotes

I'm one extreme or the other. I'm not good at doing moderation.

I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.

I have a very extreme state of mind. Things are very black or very white.

I'm a person of extremes. I'm usually very polar in a lot of things that I do.

I think Christine and Chad are on the opposite extremes of the spectrum. Christine is a model victim, and Chad is a model perpetrator, and Howard is closer to the middle.

I was like the good girl, bad girl, there were no grey areas for me.

In movies we tend make things black and white: you're either this, or you're that.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

In politics the middle way is none at all.

I like to be loved or hated - I don't like mediocre. So I'd rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90% hate me.

The United States position is clear. We do not meet demands.

The best position the government could assume would be that of moderation between opposite extremes of Ultra-Toryism and Radicalism

There shall be no neutrals. Men shall either like or dislike me.

Extremes can be right on no side.

You see every extreme position defended to the last vote, almost to the last breath by one unyielding group or another. You often see a balanced and fair approach that demands sacrifice, a little sacrifice from everyone, abandoned like an orphan without support and without friends.

The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death.

I don't like compromises. I will give everything.

It seems like the whole world is either with Israel or with Palestine. It seems like there is nobody who is actually in the middle, because the only loud people are the ones in the extreme.

Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites. It is given to formulating its beliefs in terms of Either/Ors, between which it recognizes no intermediate possibilities.

The main discomfort in being a middle-of-the-roader is that you get sideswiped by partisans going in both directions.

In the field of controversy I always pity the moderate party, who stand on the open middle ground exposed to the fire of both sides.

So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.

I listen to the far left which informs the far right. Somewhere in the middle is where we end up.

Since we do operate in a binary world, if there's something that cannot be this or that, it drives us crazy.

In a world of increasing grey areas, we are becoming more and more entrenched in black and white positions.