Soapbox Quotes

If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.

One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.

I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place.

I'm not sitting on a soapbox telling women what they should and shouldn't do, but I know what works for me.

I'm not terribly fond of soapboxes.

I don't profess to be a healer, a minister, a priest. I feel as an entertainer I can do more good for the world than I would if I were a soapbox orator or a self-made politician.

I've always liked what Thomas More said in Utopia, which is that in Utopia every person is allowed their own lifestyle and religion but no one is allowed to stand on a soapbox and tell others that theirs is right. I thought that was brilliant. Brilliant.

I've never been one to get up on a soapbox and preach. I just live my life the way I live my life.

My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.

I want young people to ask me if I'm serious. Our young people have been lied to and misled for so long. When I stand on this soapbox, I want young people to ask me that because once they know I'm serious, they'll be willing to ride with me.

The use of violence in movies is a subject that's worth addressing. I'm not standing on a soapbox or wagging a finger, but I'm interested in those subjects for sure.

There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.

For the most part, I don't like people who soapbox.

Movies can be effective in influencing people to think in ways they might not otherwise be exposed to. Social commentary in films is most effective when you're not aware of a soapbox. Making the point without force-feeding the audience is the most desirable approach.

I'm not going to get on any anti-corporation soapbox to an extreme level.

I'm Irish, yeah, but I don't need to get up on a soapbox about it.