Fodder Quotes

I`m like a bumper car. When I did an infomercial I was fodder for every TV comedy show. I couldn`t get a job. People said I was a huge joke. I`ve been a joke so many times. I`ve been on my way out since I started, but I`m strong-willed. My mother is so much tougher than I am and my grandmother is so much tougher than my mother.

People have generally been very respectful and we`ve not been tabloid fodder.

Nowadays, record companies want the quick buck from the Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, S Club 7, Steps. They`ve always been around, I`m not knocking the music perhaps, but it`s like packets of cereal. There are too many of them, too many of them are just mediocre. And I think it damages real people`s chance, real talent, of getting airplay. It`s just fodder.

One of the ways I think I gain fodder for characters is by watching people.

That`s what`s wonderful about actors sometimes, is that`s who we watch on the screen... Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. You experience the films through the actors, so they`re all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination. They make much better fodder for this kind of thing (interviews) than a director.

Hypocrisy is great fodder for comedy.

If we care about the children, the grandchildren, the future generations, we need to make sure that they do not become the cannon fodder of the future.

A wedding is such a dramatic event in any person`s life that it`s the perfect fodder for the movies, ... from picture perfect rituals to those chaos-ridden family affairs.

We deeply regret Sen. Frist`s endorsement of an embryonic stem cell research policy that would turn living human beings into commodities for exploitation. ... Treating living human embryos as mere fodder for experimentation crosses a vital ethical line and contravenes the sanctity of human life.