Aversion Quotes

People in the business are equally as terrified now -- but I really find it a personal thing. And maybe I’m at the end of that era. I wouldn’t even want to stereotype today’s generation. But the majority of the casting departments are gay, and a lot of the executives are. I think it’s a matter of your abilities and how you carry yourself -- I don’t behave any differently toward you right now than when I am with David (Burtka, his boyfriend) in our apartment, watching "American Idol." OK, "So You Think You Can Dance." (Laughs) I can see why an agent wouldn’t want to sign on a real overtly effeminate male actor -- not because I have an aversion to them but because agents might know it limits their job opportunities.

I had a philosophic aversion to it. I didn`t want to do the same thing twice. Then, I realized that my philosophical aversion was bullshit. I realized I liked Alex Cross. And the fact that he`s black is totally incidental. That`s a rare thing for a black actor to find. - on his hesitation to do Along Came a Spider (2001)

Don`t ask me my opinions on art, because I don`t have any. Aesthetic concerns have played a relatively minor role in my life, and I have to smile when a critic talks, for example, of my "palette". I find it impossible to spend hours in galleries analyzing and gesticulating. Where (Pablo Picasso)`s concerned, his legendary facility is obvious, but sometimes I`m repelled by it. I can`t stand "Guernica", which I nonetheless helped to hang. Everything about it makes me uncomfortable--the grandiloquent technique as well as the way it politicizes art. Both Alberti and (José Bergamín) share my aversion; in fact, all three of us would be delighted to blow up the painting, but I suppose we`re too old to start playing with explosives.

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

I`m against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it`s not just government bureaucrats. I don`t like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either.

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

The scorn men express for a male who does housework is exceeded only by their aversion to a woman who doesn`t