Ashley Young Quotes

I came across awful characters when I got some kind of status and came to Hollywood. Then you have directors trying to sleep with you, assuming that you will do things because of the way you dress.

Jumping through any hoop or taking advantage of any desperate situation that comes up just to sell a product is harmful. It is.

Roxanne Quimby wanted money and power, and I was just a pillar on the way to that success.

… a mere intriguing, pettifogging, piddling politician.

Don't you go believing in sayings … they are all made by men, for their own advantages.

We have to bring out the truth about how dark and dangerous and evil the taxi side is.

A lot of directors tend to manipulate actors' vulnerability to get what they want, and that can work.

Sleazy people are always in this business. They run the business, pretty much. There are a lot of barracudas.

In business there's people who have talent and there's people whose talent is to take advantage of people who have talent.

A veritable incubator of short cuts, schemes and devices to overcome the truth.

We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes.

Humanity from the first has had its vultures and sharks, and representatives of the fraternity who prey upon mankind may be expected no less in America than elsewhere. That this virulence breaks out most readily and commonly against colored persons in this country, is due of course to the fact that they are, generally speaking, weak and can be imposed upon with impunity. Bullies are always cowards at heart.

A politician who climbs high over the bodies of the slain is described as vile or great according to the degree of his success.

Sharks are the criminals of the sea. Dolphins are the outlaws.

A successful villain should have all these things at his or her villainous fingertips, or else give up villainy altogether and try to lead a life of decency, integrity, and kindness, which is much more challenging and noble, if not always quite as exciting.

There were always people to snatch at you, and it would never occur to them that they were eating you up. They did that without tasting.

He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her.

Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.

I would not give my first 15 years to my worst enemy, and I don't even have a worst enemy.

In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women.

Vladimir Putin has this animalistic instinct of all dictators: He smells weakness. To quote Winston Churchill's definition of appeasement: "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."

A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them.

We’re flimflam artists. But remember, sonny, you can’t con people unless they’re greedy to begin with. W. C. Fields had it right. You can’t cheat an honest man.

You always hear a headline like this, 'Man Killed By Shark', you never hear it from the other perspective, 'Man Swims in Shark Infested Waters, Forgets He's Shark Food'.

Never give us what we really want. Cut the dream into pieces and scatter them like ashes. Dole out the empty promises. Package our aspirations and sell them to us, cheaply made enough to fall apart.