Public Opinion Quotes

That's the one thing I have against you—you are so worried about what people think. They don't make your life. They certainly don't make mine. Think of yourself first. You have your own life to make. Are you going to let what other people think stand in the way of what you want to do?

Who the hell cares what anybody else thinks? Just look into your heart and do whatever the hell makes you happy.

Scrubs

Season 8

"All you've done is to be different from other women and you've made a little success at it. As I've told you before, that is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned! Scarlett, the mere fact that you've made a success of your mill is an insult to every man who hasn't succeeded. Remember, a well-bred female's place is in the home and she should know nothing about this busy, brutal world."

pg. 678 Rhett trying to explain to Scarlett why the other women disapprove of her.

A lion doesn’t concern himself with the opinions of a sheep.

It never is. People are gonna tell you who you are your whole life. You just gotta punch back and say, «No, this is who I am». You want people to look at you differently? Make them. You want to change things? You're gonna have to go out there and change them yourself because there are no fairy godmothers in this world.

— People'll think...
— I don't care what people think.
— You'd care if they thought you were stupid or wrong.
— No, that would just make them stupid or wrong.

But still, you might be better served, and this is a crazy notion, if you could stop worrying so much about who does and doesn't notice you. Even for a second.

People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one.

Marilyn Monroe

Comedy is subjective, Murray, isn't that what they say? All of you, the system that knows so much: you decide what's right or wrong the same way you decide what's funny or not.

But I don't care what they think. I won't let myself care. I can't afford to care now. But some day..some day..

There's no right, there's no wrong, there's only popular opinion. You... you... you believe in germs, right?

Twelve Monkeys