Dredd Quotes

#1. I'd always wanted to be an action heroine. That's a chick dream, getting to wear a leather bodysuit and be blonde and kick ass. But, what really attracted me to 'Dredd' was the script. It was fantastic! It was about people and characters, and not just about explosions and fighting.

Olivia Thirlby

#2. I was a fan of the 'Dredd' comics when I was a teenager.

Karl Urban

#3. In this city, we've got a saying: once is coincidence, twice is a booking offense!

-Judge Dredd

John Wagner

#4. My hair had been dyed blonde for 'Dredd.' After 'Dredd,' I was really fried because of the blonde hair dye, and so I cut it into a bob with bangs and that's how it was during 'Being Flynn.'

Olivia Thirlby

#5. Immediately after his re-election [Cameron] announced: "For too long we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens so long as you obey the law we will leave you alone." A statement so far to the right that it conceded the political centre ground to Judge Dredd.

Frankie Boyle

#6. I did 'Nobody Walks' right after 'Dredd.' Well, actually, I got off the plane from Capetown where we shot 'Dredd' and tested for 'Being Flynn' that same day. Then I came out to L.A. to make this film right after that so it was all very back to back.

Olivia Thirlby

#7. 'Dredd' was a weird little out-of-the-blue thing for me.

Lena Headey

#8. Gaze into the fist of Dredd!

Brian Bolland

#9. But I loved doing the physical stuff for 'Dredd.' I have to give a shout-out to the stunt team that I worked with.

Olivia Thirlby

#10. There's so much with my character in 'Dredd' that I identify with. She's my favorite character I think I've ever played. She's the most dynamic and fascinating woman that I could even imagine playing, so I love her. What I love about her is that her sensitivity is her greatest strength.

Olivia Thirlby

#11. 'The Cape' is a really good comic! They invented the whole character, and now they've built a book of 'The Cape' for the show. When I was a kid, I used to love Batman, and I loved Spider-Man. My favorite was this guy called Judge Dredd. I know they made a movie of that in the '90s.

James Frain

#12. A great leader makes what is visible in their mind, visible to all.

Ron Kaufman

#13. Chess is a meritocracy.

Lawrence Day

#14. The electron is first of all your concept of the electron.

Nhat Hanh

#15. We're born to be happy, all of us.

Alfred Sutro

#16. This Shanghai was not a place but a feeling of contentment. I was returning with myself whole and unbroken - limbs, mind, and spirit. I had discarded pride,

Amy Tan

#17. I am probably more critical of myself than anyone else, I am very tiny - 5'1 and a half inches - so there's nowhere for weight to hide.

Bonnie Langford

#18. Slasher movies are fun. You watch yourself get chopped to pieces, yet you're still alive. You see the blood on the ax and think, Holy **it, this is sick, but you kind of get over your fear of death.

Tara Reid

#19. Time - and all the events held therein - plays out as it must. We cannot impose our will on it. The only true measure of strength is our ability to bear that which time demands.

Michelle Zink

#20. What if time's not linear, the way people think it is? What if the past, present and future are all going on at the same time, only they're separated by- oh, I don't know- a kind of gauze or something. And maybe there are people that can see through that gauze.

Charles De Lint