Wimpy Quotes

The thing that`s always bothered me is that, even if you have a strong female character, invariably in the third act she has to say something like, "I`m sorry, I didn`t mean to hurt you," or she has to become really vulnerable and wimpy and get her comeuppance. Even in something like Thelma & Louise (1991), where you have these two very strong characters, they have to die in the end. What`s so special about The Last Seduction (1994) is that none of that happens. Had a Hollywood studio made that film instead of an independent, it would have been very different. She definitely wouldn`t have gotten away with what she does get away with.

If you look at a lot of the pieces on "The Muppet Show" (1976) that came from Jim, there was a tremendous sweetness about them, and that`s unique to Jim. Jim was never wimpy. He had a strength to his sweetness... that was great.

I think too many Democrats are too wimpy. But I think they`re beginning to toughen up.

There tends to be a bit of a macho attitude in the athletic community that you don`t want to focus too much on your injuries or you`re seen as wimpy.