Mean-spiritedness Quotes

Comedy is based partly on mean-spiritedness.

Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean.

To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.

I went to a school in Miami that seemed like a private country club. The whole cheerleader, football player, clique-y thing there was terrifying. Those people were so scary. They're the scariest kinds of people because they are idolized by their peers. They have everything, they have money, and they're just mean-spirited. It's crazy.

I have friends who are so sarcastic but I never view it as mean.

Believe me, I bash liberals for being mean-spirited and angry, but there are plenty on my side who are the same way.

I think that nobody gets mad at me anymore, no matter what I say, because I don't think I'm mean. I am interested in what's next.

I can't be paralyzed anymore by the critics. My new mantra is, if you're not in the arena getting your ass kicked on occasion, then I'm not interested in your feedback. You don't get to sit in the cheat seat and criticize my appearance or my work with mean-spiritedness if you're also not in the arena.

Everybody complains that people are so flaky in LA. I'd rather be flaky than mean.

Old maids claw as cats do. They not only inflict wounds but experience pleasure in doing so. Nor will they fail to remind their victims of the blood drawn.

I've always been extremely conservative, but I've never been mean-spirited.

I'm a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it.

I read the rumors, and I know there is a cottage industry of meanness out there.

I'd be a conservative if I'd never met any. They're selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring.

I think the things that are more painful to me are not the intrusion of paparazzi, it's the lack of civility that I find more intimidating and far more painful an experience. It's the lack of critical thinking. It's the endless snarky, mean way we talk about each other, we approach each other. The anonymity of being cruel, the delight in tearing people down. The tabloid era that we find ourselves in is a cultural boneyard, and that is painful to me.

You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.

I don't consider myself a mean person. I hope I'm not.

I still want to be sassy and critical, but I can do it without having to be mean or nasty.

I don't mind what they say as long as they're not being mean.

There's something about mean-spiritedness that has a way of distancing an audience.

Tightfisted people are as mean with friendship as they are with cash--suspicious, unbelieving, and incurious.

There is also a kind of mean-spiritedness with LA comics.

I consider it an indubitable mark of mean-spiritedness and pitiful vanity to court applause from the pen or tongue of man.

I am itching to criticize some well-regarded writers' works, but I am not doing it because I am perfectly aware that my critique could easily be reduced to envy or just plain meanness.

To the mean all becomes mean.