Vulgar Quotes

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A legend involves the past. I don`t like categories. This one is great and that one is great. The word "great" stands for something. When you talk about a great actor, you`re not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It`s inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it`s kind of a sickness.

- Lauren Bacall

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don`t think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

- Orson Welles

(About shooting nude scenes for The Dreamers) "I am a very shy person in life, very reserved, but you know, it`s Bertolucci. I`ve seen Last Tango and it`s not pornographic, it`s not vulgar, it`s not sick, so I trusted him. He`s a master of love and eroticism, but it`s good because I stopped being self-conscious. I felt like I was on drugs or anaesthetised because you have to be. You have to let yourself slip away and forget everything, forget the sound guy and all that."

- Eva Green

On her husband, Florenz Ziegfeld: Ziegfeld has been portrayed as a man who pursued women. I have even come across a word which, in regard to him, is not only vulgar but incredibly inaccurate. The word is "Chaser." By all the pink-toed prophets, Flo Ziegfeld was never that! Flo never pursed any woman. He was cool and aloof and difficult. But there were times, more times than I prefer to recall, when he made a woman eager for his approval by a mere look, or a small expression, or by a slight grasp of her elbow, a low mumbling request to dance. That was all the effort he ever had to make. The story of one noted dancing girl about how Flo Ziegfeld used to batter down her door is a confection of sheer poppycock. I tell you: I know better.

- Billie Burke

(when asked by Chris Matthews if what thought about Whoopi Goldberg`s remarks at a John Kerry fundraiser that resulted in her being fired as a spokesman for SlimFast) I wasn`t there. I went to the Los Angeles fundraiser. I wasn`t in the one in New York. I think when you have somebody -- you know, if you did a rock concert that was a benefit and The Who played their music or The Rolling Stones, you`d expect to get, you know, "Satisfaction" or "My Generation." When you hire Whoopi Goldberg, you`re going to get her brand of humor. And I think there is a fine line, and you have to be a little bit mindful. And I, for one, am not going to do any scatological jokes or puns about the president`s last name on your show, mostly for that reason. But I also think I expect a different code of behavior maybe from comedians who have made a career with a certain kind of comedy than I do from, oh, say, the Vice President of the United States (referring to Vice President [Dick Cheney, who told Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy to "Go fuck yourself" on the floor of the Senate), who used this vulgar language, you know, to a senator and was sort of unapologetic about it. So I think the Republicans hitting her (Whoopi) too hard for that is a little bit hypocritical.

- Ben Affleck

"I can`t stand this new culture of the instant disposable celebrity. It`s all so vulgar."

- Emma Thompson

I wiggle my shoulders, I shake my legs, I walk up and down the stage, I hop around on one foot. But I never bump and grind. Why, that`s vulgar. I`d never do anything vulgar before an audience. My mother would never allow it.

- Elvis Presley

(about shooting nude scenes for The Dreamers (2003):) "I am a very shy person in life, very reserved, but you know, it`s Bertolucci. I`ve seen Last Tango and it`s not pornographic, it`s not vulgar, it`s not sick, so I trusted him. He`s a master of love and eroticism, but it`s good because I stopped being self-conscious. I felt like I was on drugs or anaesthetised because you have to be. You have to let yourself slip away and forget everything, forget the sound guy and all that." (February 5, 2004)

- Eva Green

Will is extremely funny. The tights, though, they were a little vulgar. I just looked at the tights and there`s nothing funny about them!

- James Caan

I`m not preaching a sermon from the mount, you know. This is just my own opinion. But it does seem to me that when our industry got vulgar and cheap, we began losing our regular customers. Sure, people are curious, and they`ll go see any provocative thing once - maybe even four or five times - but eventually they`ll just stay home and watch television. There used to be this little Frenchman in Hollywood who made all these risqué movies . . . what the hell was his name? . . . Lubitsch (Ernst Lubitsch, who was actually German)! He could make pictures as risqué as anything you`ll see today, but he made them with taste and illusion. The only sadness in my heart for our business is that we are taking all the illusion out of it. After all, it`s pretty hard to take your daughter to see Deep Throat (1972).

- John Wayne

Those years on the golf course as a caddie, boy, those people were something. They were vulgar, some were alcoholics, racist, they were very difficult people to deal with. A lot of them didn`t have a sense of humor.

- Martin Sheen

I`m an optimist. I hope if a movie`s good that it will be a success, but as we know, that`s not always true, just because of popular taste, advertising, distribution patterns, there`s lots of reasons. When something doesn`t do better than it deserves to in your mind, it`s pretty transparent, you usually know why. Is that a comfort? Yes, because it`s logical. Does it make you happy? No, because if you think a movie is beautiful or interesting, you want to share it. It`s really true; there`s no accounting for taste. Sometimes you make very interesting movies that aren`t meant for everybody. But this is a capitalist society, so everything conspires to put value on whether it sells or not. While we have a very strong popular culture, the roots of our culture are very shallow, and we put emphasis on how a movie does as far as the box office goes. Many years ago, it would have been vulgar to print box-office grosses in the paper. Now The New York Times does it, and it`s the big story for people interested in arts and entertainment on Monday. Which is why emphasis has shifted away from filmmakers and fallen on movie stars and business people.

- Willem Dafoe

(When asked if modern viewers will view Mr. Darcy differently.) I think looking at it now, Darcy would seem much more snobbish in our understanding of the word than he would then. To somebody like Darcy, it would have been a big deal for him to get over this difference in their status, and to be able to say to Lizzie that he loved her. We would think it was incredibly snobbish and elitist, but it wasn`t for him. It would have been a big admission, and he would have found it very vulgar. It`s a bigger divide than it would have been then is what I`m saying.

- Matthew Macfadyen

A legend involves the past. I don`t like categories. This one is great and that one is great. The word great stands for something. When you talk about a great actor, you`re not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It`s inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but, I think it`s kind of a sickness.

- Lauren Bacall

It`s inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially.

- Lauren Bacall

By the time you get your name up in lights you have worked so hard and so long, and seen so many names go up and down, that all you can think of is: `How can I keep it here?` On her husband, Florenz Ziegfeld: Ziegfeld has been portrayed as a man who pursued women. I have even come across a word which, in regard to him, is not only vulgar but incredibly inaccurate. The word is Chaser." By all the pink-toed prophets, Flo Ziegfeld was never that! Flo never pursed any woman. He was cool and aloof and difficult. But there were times, more times than I prefer to recall, when he made a woman eager for his approval by a mere look, or a small expression, or by a slight grasp of her elbow, a low mumbling request to dance. That was all the effort he ever had to make. The story of one noted dancing girl about how Flo Ziegfeld used to batter down her door is a confection of sheer poppycock. I tell you: I know better.

- Billie Burke

Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.

- Carroll O'Connor

All the pictures that have been taken of me are artistic. Even if they were provocative or revealing, I don`t think they were vulgar. (December 2007)

- Padma Lakshmi

If a movie isn`t a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.

- Roger Ebert

Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.

- Oscar Wilde

I wanted to make a film about stupid people that was very vulgar and deeply stupid. From that moment on I can hardly be reproached for making a film that is about stupid people.

- Claude Chabrol

(Paul volunteered to play on the song, so Kroeger overnighted him the tape and encouraged him to record a new drum track over the one played by Nickelback drummer Daniel Adair.) He thought about it for a while, ... then he decided that Daniel had done such an amazing job that we should leave it the way it was. That`s when he sent the guitar parts from Vulgar Display of Power and Far Beyond Driven, which we used for the solo.

- Chad Kroeger

(Regan has been amused, in the intervening years, to watch editors who rolled their eyes at Limbaugh scramble to try to duplicate his success.) What people respond to in this culture is loud and brash and pointed and sometimes vulgar -- that`s what gets people`s attention, on TV and radio and in books, ... Shades-of-gray books are very difficult to sell.

- Judith Regan

What people respond to in this culture is loud and brash and pointed and sometimes vulgar -- that`s what gets people`s attention, on TV and radio and in books. Shades-of-gray books are very difficult to sell.

- Judith Regan

They say it figures MTV would do such a vulgar, awful, horrible show and they completely miss that it`s satirizing the people who watch MTV.

- Mike Judge

I love the fans. They`re the reason why these movies keep getting made. The only thing that bothers me about chatting with fans is the constant anal rape jokes because of this movie Vulgar I did. Other than that we`re cool.

- Brian O'Halloran

Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death.

- John Pearson

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

- Marcus Aurelius

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he`d get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

- John Osborne

pretty low, but not vulgar.

- Richard Tyler

Midshipmen and cadets remain stronger and more aggressive than their male counterparts at civilian schools. They eagerly play sports such as rugby, boxing, karate, lacrosse, and football. They drive fast cars, usually sports cars. They play hard. They drink hard. They are physical, often abusive among each other. They are not trying to prove their manhood: they are celebrating their masculinity. They are competitive, often vulgar, and tough, and every citizen who may someday send a friend or relative into war should rejoice, because combat is competitive, vulgar, and tough, and they will be leading men in combat.

- James Webb

Wisdom and spirit of the Universe! Thou soul is the eternity of thought! That giv`st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion! Not in vain By day or star-light thus from by first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul, Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects, with enduring things, With life and nature, purifying thus The elements of feeling and of thought, And sanctifying, by such discipline Both pain and fear, until we recognize A grandeur in the beatings of the heart.

- William Wordsworth

For those whose goal it is to twist wrong into right, a good starting point is to convince young people that the vulgar is beautiful.

- Tammy Bruce

You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

- Aaron Browning

Fact is based upon vulgar matter.

- Alan G. Hevesi

The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.

- Alan Sandals

So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.

- Albert Gray

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.

- Alderman Dana McLendon

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

- Alexander Nikonov

Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.

- Alexandre Barros

On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people.

- Alexei Makarkin

Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar sort of servants are as ill bred as meanly born, giving children ill examples and worse counsel.

- Aly Byorick

Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all.

- Amanda Gunter

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.

- Andreas Hoistad

A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy.

- Andrew DiDonato

Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth, the tyranny of plutocracy

- Andy Kyle

No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime

- Oscar Wilde

I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.

- Oscar Wilde

Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we now see the capitalist system being discredited and destroyed all over the world, even though this system has given men the greatest material comforts

- Ayn Rand

The fundamental flaw of vulgar thought lies in the fact that it wishes to content itself with motionless imprints of a reality which consists of eternal motion.

- Leon Trotsky