"I mean, believe me, I'm not for censorship."

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"They still had the Lord Chamberlain, so we had this idiotic censorship. We were allowed three Jesus Christs instead of 10. Why three were OK, I don't know."

Uta Hagen, German Actress

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"Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important."

Mae West, American Actress

Censorship, Dignity, Now, Right

"Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight."

Stephen Chbosky, American Author

Censorship, Freedom, Speech, Knowledge

"The best way to get kids to read a book is to say: 'This book is not appropriate for your age, and it has all sorts of horrible things in it like sex and death and some really big and complicated ideas, and you're better off not touching it until you're all grown up. I'm going to put it on this shelf and leave the room for a while. Don't open it."

Philip Pullman, British Writer

Censorship, Reading, Children, Temptation

"What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship."

Matthew Lesko, American Entertainer

Censorship, Libraries, Public

"Self-censorship is more efficient than any police. You write and say not what you really think, but what you believe is acceptable. By that process we lose those revolutionary ideas that could change society for the better."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Censorship, Self, Police, Idea

"We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

Censorship, Prohibition, Temptation

"I don't believe in censorship in any form."

Kathryn Bigelow, American Director

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"I think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can't be seen fully. It's sorta internal censorship. We censor each other."

Kathy Acker, American Activist

Censorship, Country

"Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered."

Archibald MacLeish, American Poet

Censorship, Opinions, Silence

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"They still had the Lord Chamberlain, so we had this idiotic censorship. We were allowed three Jesus Christs instead of 10. Why three were OK, I don't know."

"Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important."

"Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight."

"What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship."

"Self-censorship is more efficient than any police. You write and say not what you really think, but what you believe is acceptable. By that process we lose those revolutionary ideas that could change society for the better."

"We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation."

"I don't believe in censorship in any form."

"I think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can't be seen fully. It's sorta internal censorship. We censor each other."

"Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered."

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"You know the way I play golf, it's a good I do these things for charities."

"Whenever you're going to play a real person, you run the risk of well, everybody in the world kind of has an image of what that person is and who he should be and so you really have to do your homework."

"When they were small and my wife really had no other responsibilities, except taking care of the family and all of us, it wasn't that big a deal. It was fun. Hey, we're going to Moscow. We're going to Italy. We're going to Toronto. We're going to New York."

"There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers."

"For every Mother Teresa, there's a Jeffrey Dahmer."

"For the last thirty years in my career I never know what I'm doing next."

"I've loved it, but I have a wife and two children."

"I mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can with the means that you can and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can."

"If you're going to believe in a God, then you also have to equally believe that there's a flip side to this."

"I reached that day that I always thought might happen, where I say to myself I don't want to do this anymore. I'm looking for some stability. I want to stay home."