Public opinion quotes

“- Host-TV: Quite a story, yes? Any questions for Edward? Yeah, get way over. Stand right up.
- Audience Member #1: What's been the best part of your new life here in town?
- Edward: The friends I made.
- Host-TV: Any other questions?
- Audience Member #2: Have you ever thought of having corrective surgery or prosthetics? I know a doctor that...” (continue)(continue reading)
John Davidson - Host-TV
Johnny Depp - Edward Scissorhands

“Changing mass consciousness is an individual responsibility.”
William Dennis Weaver

“He married for love. Love. That's why he did everything. That's why he went into politics. It seems we weren't enough, he wanted all the voters to love him too.”

Joseph Cotten - Jedediah Leland

“Publicity has a way of flattening, flattening you and the people you love into types, and it's really hard to deal with because nobody will ever let you forget what happened.”
Victoria Pedretti - Love Quinn

“- David: Well, you have certainly captured your public's imagination.
- Donald Horner: They can have it back if I can keep my home.”
Stavros Demetraki - David
Brendan Gleeson - Donald Horner

“- Leonardo: We're turtles, whether you like it or not.
- Raphael: It's not about what I like, it's about what people up there will accept!
- Leonardo: True acceptance comes from within.
- Raphael: Don't give me that fortune-cookie muck! You should have consulted with your brothers before you decide to do something like that!”
Pete Ploszek - Leonardo
Alan Ritchson - Raphael

“The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down.”
Errol Flynn

“- Vincent Kapoor: Mark, please watch your language. Everything you type is being broadcast live all over the world.
- Mark Watney: Yeah?”

Chiwetel Ejiofor - Vincent Kapoor
Matt Damon - Mark Watnay

“All the time I was in Berlin Garbo was my favorite. I only had Sunday afternoon free; I was playing, rehearsing all the other time. So on Sunday afternoons I used to go to see Garbo's pictures. I followed them from one theater to another; maybe sometimes I saw one five or six times. And when I came to America I thought perhaps I will meet her. I...” (continue)(continue reading)

Marlene Dietrich On Greta Garbo

“- Rachel: Everyone is going to find out sooner or later.
- Greg: One thing you can do if you don't want to talk to anyone is just enter a subhuman state. Pretend you're someone annoying.
- Rachel: 'Hi Rachel, I'm really sorry you have cancer.'
- Greg: That's exactly what I'm talking about!”

Olivia Cooke - Rachel
Thomas Mann - Greg

“In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished.”

Hugo Weaving - V

“I gave up giving a damn about what other people think a long time ago... I write what I write and I sing what I sing cause that's what I do.”
Tom Hiddleston - Hank Williams

What are we gonna say, "Dear America, remember that astronaut we killed and had a really nice funeral for? Turns out he's alive and we left him on Mars. Our bad. Sincerely, NASA".
Kristen Wiig - Annie Montrose

“- Riggan: Where did you read that?
- Clara: It was tweeted by @prostatewhispers.
- Riggan: No, that's not true.
- Clara: I know, but did you do it?
- Riggan: No, I didn't do it.
- Clara: Okay, then I'll just write that you're denying it.”

Michael Keaton - Riggan

“- Kane: It's obvious the people prefer Jim Gettys to me.
- Jedediah Leland: You talk about the people as though you owned them, as though they belong to you. As long as I can remember, you've talked about giving the people their rights, as if you can make them a present of liberty, as a reward for services rendered.”
Orson Welles - Kane
Joseph Cotten - Jedediah Leland

“- Lola Burns: How do you think I enjoy reading all that scandal that hasn't an ounce of truth in it?
- Space Hanlon: I've told you, sugar, it isn't what you like to read. It's what the public likes to read.”
Jean Harlow - Lola Burns
Lee Tracy - Space Hanlon

“- Pat Nixon: I just wish you knew how much I love you, that's all. It took me a long time to fall in love with you, Dick. But I did. And it doesn't make you happy. You want them to love you...
- Richard M. Nixon: No, I don't. I'm not Jack...
- Pat Nixon: But they never will, Dick. No matter how many elections you win, they never will.”

Joan Allen - Pat Nixon
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Richard M. Nixon

“People, they love blood. They love action. Not this talky, depressing, philosophical bullshit.”
Michael Keaton - Riggan

“- Dave Skylark: When you score a Bin Laden, or a Hitler, or an Un, you take it by the balls! It's the first rule of journalism. You give the people what they waaant!
- Aaron Rapaport: That's not the first rule of journalism. I think it's like the first rule of like circuses and demolition derbies.”
James Franco - Dave Skylark
Seth Rogen - Aaron Rapaport

“- Alison McAndrews: Both of the candidates you're running against are happily married, with kids. You're divorced and have no children. So how are you gonna come off as family-friendly?
- Tom Dobbs: Well, I could hold my mother's ashes.”
Karen Hines - Alison McAndrews
Robin Williams - Tom Dobbs

“- John Dillinger: The public don't like kidnapping.
- Alvin Karpis: Who gives a damn what the public likes?
- John Dillinger: I do. I hide out among them. We gotta care what they think.”
Johnny Depp - John Dillinger
Giovanni Ribisi - Alvin Karpis

“The power of television, of public exposure, it scares me. I swear, I could get the mayor's own children to throw rocks at him!”
Dom DeLuise - Melvin

“- Babe Magrath: She told me how embarrassing it was for her all those years ago. You know, when mama...
- Meg Magrath: Yeah, down in the cellar.
- Babe Magrath: She said our mama had shamed the entire family and that we were known notoriously all through Hazelhurst. Then she went on to say how I would now be getting just as much bad publicity...” (continue)(continue reading)

Sissy Spacek - Babe Magrath
Jessica Lange - Meg Magrath

“Television can control public opinion more effectively than armies of secret police, because television is entirely voluntary. The American government forces our children to attend school, but nobody forces them to watch TV. Americans of all ages submit to television.”
James Coburn - John Reston

“The American public's attention span is about as long as your dick.”
G.D. Spradlin - R. J. Hacker