Controversial Choices Quotes

A lot of very, very big stars were going down and not being seen or heard from again. Kirk took a huge chance in putting a blacklisted writer's name on the screen and somehow or other, he survived it, like he survives everything.

Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others

My choice of shoe upsets people a lot more than my filthy mouth.

My dad, he would go through these periods of self-doubt. We'd do something that was controversial or that wasn't welcomed by everybody, and he'd go, 'Well, Shirley, our parents cursed us with ethics, and we passed it on to our children.'

Every time a mayor makes a big decision, half the people are against him. After his first 5 decisions the only ones left who support him are his family and a few friends.

As much as I am very critical of Ariel Sharon in the first Lebanon war, I think that he was the right person at the right time in the right place as prime minister. He made a series of very significant decisions, not one of which was popular or seemed justified at the time.

I just lead my life as naturally, as normally as I possibly can. But I can't help it if controversy is hounding me day in and day out. I'm quite amazed sometimes by the way they go about it. I grow a beard and it lands up in the editorial in The Times of India.

I'll be willing to do things that politicians won't do. Because I don't care who I upset.

I look to James Franco with complete admiration. He makes interesting choices. Whether right or wrong, that is up to someone else to decide, but I think what he does is brilliant.

Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point.

I'd always admired Sean Connery. Even though I wonder about some of his choices, I like him even in bad movies.

Gwyneth Paltrow names her kid Apple. I'm not going to let that stand.