Assed Quotes

(on shooting the strip-club scene fully nude) "You can`t do this stuff half-assed, pun intended."

I love marriage. I failed at marriage, but I`d rather go into anything with gusto and fail than go into it half-assed.

I know I`ve made kind of a half-assed career out of violence, but I abhor violence. I am an ardent supporter of gun control. It seems incredible to me that we are the only civilized nation that does not put some effective control on guns. (1976)

I`m ambivalent about Patton (1970). I`m kind of a half-assed pacifist and I must tell you, you know, your philosophy is as strong as your feelings on a particular day. If you`re feeling good and you`ve accomplished something, you can back your philosophies to the hilt. And I don`t know what happened, but I decided I`m not going to glorify this thing. I wasn`t going to glorify war . . . I was a schmuck, because if I did "Patton" half as good as Mr. Scott (George C. Scott), I might have walked into The Godfather (1972). So that was a big mistake.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you`re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.