Judd Apatow Quotes

If I'm tapping anything, it's the frustration of people who have something to say at work or home or in some social setting and just can't do it. I do it for them. I don't take prisoners.

There are things that need to be said... and I think it's my obligation to say them.

I love to come home and work on one of my other jobs. Just to remember that the floors gotta be mopped, and that everything isn't centered around what you fought about in Washington last week.

I speak relatively little, except when I'm at home and I'm asking for things.

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

If there's something wrong, speak up!

People sometimes think of 'queen' as a title that's shrouded with protocol and formality, and for that reason sometimes people are not easily saying what they want to say. They're reluctant to express their opinions, and I kind of find that frustrating because I want to know what people really, really think.

Sometimes I wish I was more comfortable just saying what I thought and getting my point across.

I don't believe in that "no comment" business. I always have a comment.

It is very wholesome exercise, this trying to make one's words represent one's thoughts, instead of merely looking to their effect on others

Sometimes you have to say what's on your mind if it's something that's really important to you.

I would describe myself as outspoken. Not political. Outspoken about what I want to say. There are things that need to be said... and I think it's my obligation to say them.

If you're passionate about it, speak up about it. Just show up, do your part, and make your voice heard, because at the end of the day, all we have is our voice and our platforms and our character.

It's better to say too much, than never to say what you need to say again.

I finally learned that it was all right to say something wasn’t working for me when it wasn’t working. The world doesn’t come crashing down when you speak the truth.

Nobody has a right to speak more clearly than he thinks.

Tiny, the next time that you try to set me up with a girl with a secret boyfriend can you at least INFORM me that she has a secret boyfriend? Also, if you don't call me back within five minutes, I'm going to assume you found a way back to Evanston. Furthermore, you are an asshat. That is all.

I'm a mumbler. If I'm walking with a friend, and I say something, he says, "What?" So I say it again, and he says, "What?" Really, it's just some insignificant stuff I'm saying, but now I'm yelling, "That tree is far away!"

I should have told you from the start. I will let you down.

If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces.

It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes.

Write what makes you laugh not what you think will make someone else laugh.

My life is an open book. With illustrations.

How can anyone expect to be understood unless he presents his thoughts with complete honesty? This situation is unfair because it asks too much of the world. In effect, we say, ' I don't dare show you what I am because I don't trust you for a minute but please love me anyway because I so need you to. And, of course, if you don't love me anyway, you're a dirty dog, just as I suspected, so I was right in the first place.' Yet, every time God's children have thrown away fear in pursuit of honesty-trying to communicate themselves, understood or not, miracles have happened.