Politely Quotes

I would like to do more dramas when I find a good role that will allow me to politely upset people`s expectations of me as a comic actor.

I had no idea Ellen Barkin was in the restaurant. If she was coughing or dying, she was doing it politely. I would have been more than happy to reach down her throat or squeeze her hard. Sat there dumbfounded? Please! I would have rallied round - just to avoid paying the bill.

I`ve learned, I think, to be able to distinguish between the necessary and the unnecessary as far as my limited outside time is concerned. Saying "no" politely is a necessity if one wants to lead any kind of stable life.

I find it next to impossible to remain politely silent when people prate to me about the glory of being given another chance to live happily ever after!

It`s politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Always speak politely to an enraged Dragon.