Top 40 Gratuitous Quotes

I don’t ever want to be gratuitous, for the sake of being gratuitous, but when it serves the stories and the characters, it’s nice to be able to do that, realistically and with credibility. You don’t want to do it for the sake of it, or shoe-horn it in. But, it’s a good tool to have in the toolbox.

I’m a pragmatist, and I don’t like gratuitous fashion – in fact, there’s not that much gratuitous anything in my life.

I’ve seen shows on Showtime, and they’re very provocative, if you will, but nothing to the point that’s over-the-top or gratuitous.

There should really not be anything gratuitous in a work of art. Sometimes what seems as if it’s gratuitous may be a passage in which a character is being characterized so that the reader comes to know him or her better.

I don’t like gratuitous violence. I don’t like the ‘Saw’ movies. I don’t like the ‘Hostel’ movies. I don’t like anything that is violence for violence’s sake.

I wouldn’t do really gratuitous nudity. When I was in my late teens, you’d read stuff and be like, ‘That character serves no purpose except being naked’, so that would not be something I’d want to do. It’s pointless for me.

We continue to hope that a way can be found for Benchmark to move forward, having profited so handsomely from the work of Travis Kalanick and many others, and to do so without inflicting gratuitous harm on the company which we have all supported, and for which we continue to have the greatest expectations.

My moral compass swings far to the left, but when it comes to gratuitous violence, I have trouble.

I’m not for gratuitous nudity, but if there’s humor, I don’t have a problem.

I’d like to think I’d never do a gratuitous fart joke.

I don’t say that I’m going to be like every other comic that’s blue, or gratuitous use of language. I do try to have my own standards: I don’t do everything the audience wants, and I do try to surprise them.

We are providing a platform to creators who are expressing their emotions; they are expressing what they are feeling – fears, joys, terror. That’s what art is about, and we don’t want to censor it, but neither would we permit violence which feels gratuitous or glorified to be on our platform.

The scene that has raised the most objections in ‘The Interview’ is at the very end, when Kim’s head dissolves into flames. To me, it feels gratuitous.

I’m not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now is a sort of gratuitous deconstruction as a result of a fashion of literary deconstructionism indicating that there are no meanings.

If, in the very first pages, I’m forced to read gratuitous phrases or banal metaphors, I won’t be able to get inside the story. Only if the sentences ‘sparkle’ can I get hooked.

I don’t think they’re gratuitous with the nudity on ‘Game of Thrones.’ It’s very much part of the world. There’s a lot of it, but that’s the world they come from. It never is there to distract from the scene or the actors or story.

Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don’t want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and violence are only as graphic as need be. And never included unless it furthers the plot or character development.

An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

Russia continues to side with… rogue states and terrorist organizations, following Vladimir Putin’s pattern of gratuitous and unpunished affronts to U.S. interests.

I do say no to things that I think are completely gratuitous.

In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the eight hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous overeating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die!

A sex scene is gratuitous when it only exists for its own sake.

Normally, the action is just a gratuitous thing. In the case of Bourne, he was going to learn about himself in the action scenes.

I feel often that we don’t have the right language to talk about emotions in disasters. Everyone is on edge, of course, but it also pulls people away from a lot of trivial anxieties and past and future concerns and gratuitous preoccupations that we have, and refocuses us in a very intense way.

We were mainly concerned about nudity – how much could be shown in 1959 and how much would convey, without being gratuitous, the terror of being attacked naked and wet.

A little bit of gratuitous violence in a well-thought-out story is fine.

To me, a sex scene in a movie generally means a gratuitous scene that doesn’t serve the story but gives a kind of excuse – we’ve got these two actors, we want to see them naked, so let’s bring in the music and the soft light.

I don’t think that swearing or gratuitous violence or sex make a show better. I just think there are natural rhythms to a human being in these situations, and what happens in these situations that cable allows is a natural reaction.

It seems like a totally gratuitous myth to tell people a giant rabbit comes round at night leaving candy in a haphazard way around the house… and the cover shows the bunny caught in the act.

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

Sometimes nudity is gratuitous. We just live in a society where everything goes.

I’ve specifically decided to say no to projects that weren’t advancing Latinos, that weren’t showing us in a positive light, roles that were gratuitous and spreading untruths.

I’m very critical of crime novels that use gratuitous violence to shock readers when it isn’t necessary. If that’s all you have to offer as a writer, perhaps you’re in the wrong job.

Gratuitous fat jokes always hurt, no matter what.

It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.

Did Google need to make robot cars in order to make Streetview work? Absolutely not. It’s the equivalent of saying you need a walking robot in order to push an upright vacuum cleaner. It’s gratuitous robotics!

There’s nothing gratuitous about my films.

There is a fine line between something that’s gratuitous, that’s unnecessary.

There should always be something gratuitous about art, just as there seems to be, according to the new-wave cosmologists, something gratuitous about the universe.

I would never condone anything which I thought was salacious, titillating, or gratuitous.