Words matter. These are the best Bad One Quotes from famous people such as Bozoma Saint John, Tea Leoni, Elana Meyers, Laurence Sterne, Emmanuelle Beart, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
It’s very personal to me and doesn’t work for everybody, but what I have found in my experience is that when I make pro and con lists, it’s usually because I am trying to talk myself out of a good idea or talk myself into a really bad one.
If I swim in the ocean, I have a shark thought. Not a bad one, but just a little one.
I played softball at George Washington University, and then I played professionally for the Mid-Michigan Ice. I had a couple of tryouts with the U.S. Olympic Team, but I don’t know if I have a word to describe how bad one of the tryouts was. It was the worst tryout in the history of tryouts. It was that bad.
‘Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one.
I was a very bad student. I didn’t know what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn’t want to go farther in school. I hated school and was always the bad one; I was always insulting the teachers.
I’m not going to have a perfect career. It’s better to be Billy Wilder and make lots of movies and have five or six great ones than to make so few movies that when you make a bad one it crushes you.
Bring me another bad one, and I shall protect my British people – I brought down Thatcher to protect my people, and I’m bringing down Tony to defend them, and I’ll be there for any other dangers that come along.
Nobody engages in a film, regardless of what your job is in it, to make a bad one.
The minute you start making calculations about what people will think of you as a person based on your work as an actor, you’re on the road to becoming a bad one.
I don’t have a problem if someone else were to say that one of my characters is a good one and another one is not and is a bad one. I try myself not to have any judgment towards my characters, but certainly the audience might.
What’s comforting about coming from a family of actors is I don’t have to explain the struggle. I can just sigh to my sister, ‘I had a bad one,’ and she’ll know exactly the profound audition humiliation I am describing.
I don’t know what first got me to attack melons. It’s not like I ate a bad one and got an upset stomach. It just eventually seemed like the appropriate fruit.
The first job where I actually made money was on ‘Guiding Light,’ the soap opera. And I played a maid. My name was Ginger, and I had a Brooklyn accent – a really bad one, if I remember correctly.
Out of the thousand writers huffing and puffing through movieland, there are scarcely fifty men and women of wit and talent… Yet, in a curious way, there is not much difference between the product of a good writer and a bad one. They both have to toe the same mark.
On the first movie we got good reviews, but we were still dealing with genre stuff. It’s going away. Judge the movie – is it a good one or a bad one? We know we made a great movie and it’s being judged for just being a good film.
An Obama administration desperate to strike a deal is likely to strike a bad one.
A barrel of laughs should be enough, but it’s not. A good review is official and endures. A bad one is like a tub of Flora. It spreads easily and lasts for the whole festival.
When I look at a character, whether he’s good or bad, one scene or 10 scenes, I just have to find my way in.
I am failing as a woman. I am failing as a feminist. To freely accept the feminist label would not be fair to good feminists. If I am, indeed, a feminist, I am a rather bad one. I am a mess of contradictions.
I think the trend to move towards caucuses and conventions, whether to nominate senators, governors or presidential nominees, I think the move towards caucuses and conventions is a very bad one, and that our party should reward those states that spend the time and money to have primaries.
If you stop for lunch elsewhere in the world, you tend to eat a sandwich, and a bad one. Italy is unique for the style of life. I think everyone envies it a bit.
If you are out there golfing, and you hit a bad shot, anyone who knows golf will tell you that you just have to forget about it. If you don’t, you’ll hit another bad one and another and then another. It plays with your head. It’s the same way in a fight.
The Wire’ was from a police perspective – in terms of the streets and that, it was probably like, thirty per cent. ‘Top Boy’ is really from the perspective of the quote-unquote criminal. It’s getting into the mind of these people and why they do what they do. It’s bigger than just ‘Woke up and wanted to be bad one day.’
Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.
Both sides in Syria are bad. One side is a brutal dictator, and the other includes Islamists and terrorists who are dangerous already and who would be brutal in power if given the chance.
In the beginning I used to make one terrible play a game. Then I got so I’d make one a week and finally I’d pull a bad one about once a month. Now, I’m trying to keep it down to one a season.
I’m probably my own harshest critic. If I get a hundred good reviews and one really bad one, it’s that one out of a hundred that I remember. I think we actors are hard on ourselves, and I don’t know why that is.
All gigs are good gigs. There’s never a bad one. Everything have a reason behind it; you just got to find that reason.
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
Writing is exhilarating, but reading reviews is not. I’ve been really devastated by ‘good’ reviews because they misunderstand the project of the book. It can be strangely galvanising to get a ‘bad’ one.
You can have one good game, but the next one could be a bad one.
Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.
I always say show me a storyteller who doesn’t embellish, and I’ll show you a bad one.
If the creators of cartoons are intentionally or unintentionally giving children the idea that gay people are part of the big, happy human family, that’s a good thing, not a bad one.
I was a server for a while, and I was a very bad one. So when people tipped me well, I felt like it was like, ‘Let’s get her out of here so she can get a new job.’
A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.
I don’t mind being called ‘Supernova.’ If one nickname is going to stick, that’s not a bad one!
A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
Hillary Clinton can’t tell a good trade deal from bad one.
You don’t need to know this – but here goes: due to some acquired infantilism, I feel compelled to fall asleep listening to the radio. On a good night, I’ll push the frail barque of my psyche off into the waters of Lethe accompanied by the midnight newsreader – on a bad one, it’s the shipping forecast.
