Words matter. These are the best Cornered Quotes from famous people such as Pawel Pawlikowski, Bruce Jackson, Michael C. Hall, Anubhav Sinha, Christopher Lambert, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I always write three or four projects at the same time. They’re stories that I want to tell, and usually I dump them unfinished for the next one in order not to get too cornered and depressed about it.
All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.
I don’t think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame.
No, I never felt cornered because I was not a big director’s son or a star’s son.
‘Mulk’ is a story of a Muslim family whose one member turns out to be a terrorist. How that family gets cornered and persecuted after that in our society is what it is all about. I have tried to deal with some of the burning issues of our times.
Now I don’t want to feel cornered as an actor, because I’ve got a wider range than that.
Adult Swim has cornered this really cool market, especially for comedy shows.
A man is, after all, what he loves. But one always feels cornered when asked to explain why one loves this or that person, and what for. In order to explain it – which inevitably amounts to explaining oneself – one has to try to love the object of one’s attention a little bit less.
It’s just I hate reading the description ‘offbeat’ about a character in a script, because I, along with Seth Green, Jamie Kennedy and a few others, have cornered the market on ‘offbeat.’
Usually, someone who’s in a show gets me a ticket. I feel cornered. I can’t walk out if I don’t like it.
Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951.
Reading Stephen King’s book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema.
When you’re cornered, there are two things you can do: move or fight.
I usually write on a computer – unless I get stuck, at which point I switch to write by hand. I think that’s common among writers if they get cornered on something.
My uncle used to fight Vale Tudo, and my mother even cornered him in some of his fights.
From the political angle, I’m trying to be apolitical if you will. I mean people say, ‘Are you a red state or blue state?’, I say, ‘I’m purple.’ I think there are great ideas on both sides of the aisle and neither side has cornered the market.
If I ever called myself an activist, I regret it, and I was cornered into it by an industry who couldn’t justify me taking up space without saying that I had some kind of radical political agenda because they saw my participation as a radical political thing. Which it was not.
Some actors specialize in shooting weapons and punching people. Some have the market on playing buffoons cornered, others specialize in roles that require heavy makeup or outrageous wardrobe. Some trade exclusively in a post-ironic blase attitude.
I don’t think I’ve ever been either militant or profound as an anti-Fascist. When the issue has come up, when certain things have come up, and I’ve been called on to express – literally, when I’ve been cornered, then I take a left-wing stand.
