Heavy-Handed Quotes

History's lesson, of course, is that attempts to suppress free expression have merely confirmed the caricaturists' original critique of heavy-handed and objectionable actions of overreaching governments.

I don't like message movies either.

There are some actresses that can't do comedy; it's too heavy-handed.

It just never comes across as a quality you want in a president that you're sitting in a room. It's almost as if they woke up and realized, You know, we're running against a former secretary of state. Our guy used to do the Miss Universe pageant around the world. Maybe we should try to heavy this up.

There's a clean simplicity to the plotting of 'Sinister,' whether you like it or not. And the scares are deliberate and even heavy-handed in a way. There's not a lot of sophistication or nuance in the plotting and not much restraint in the scares - and that's a part of what makes the movie accessible.

I don't like movies that are trying to preach and trying to tell you how to feel.

The FBI would rather be a little heavy handed than empty handed.

There are atheists and Christians, and there are people in both groups who are a little too heavy-handed.

The king of England doth lay but his little finger upon his subjects when other princes and states do lay their heavy loins upon their people.

I don't like beating people on the head with the message. I don't like standing on the soapbox.