Quotes About Being A Nice Guy

#1. The price of being a nice guy is too high - much too high - in terms of the system of justice.

Jed S. Rakoff

#2. I think if you were known for playing something other than being a nice guy then people might be a little less likely to take liberties with you. If you are Ray Winstone, and people have seen you kick a few people to death, then they are a little less likely to approach you or whatever.

Martin Freeman

#3. I'm tired of being a nice guy, I've been poor all my life, but don't know quite why.

Tupac Shakur

#4. Dave's playing and repertoire evokes memories of the golden era of Modern Jazz, and in addition to being a nice guy he happens to be a bebopper of the finest order.

Chris Cortez

#5. Besides, Kristy sees me being nice to old ladies ? Huge turn-on, right ? Girls really like that kind of thing. Except Amber, who won't look at a guy twice unless he's got a British accent and a crazy-ass wife locked in the attic, or whatever, but she is clearly abnormal.

Hannah Johnson

#6. I was a terrible believer in things, I was also a terrible nonbeliever in things. I was just as searching as I was skeptical.

Cheryl Strayed

#7. People say I'm hard, I'm Mr Angry. I'm this, I'm that. I just want to win matches. There's no point going out there and being Mr Nice Guy. We get 55,000 at Old Trafford and I don't think they want fellas going out there and thinking: Ah, if we lose, so what?

Roy Keane

#8. Sanity is transmuting all the insane parts of your brain into a creative outlet.

Jaeda DeWalt

#9. One of the nice things about being me is you show up in a town, you meet somebody interesting and entertaining, and for 48 hours, what a wonderful person to be around. You mess around, and all of that is super, super fun, and you don't have to deal with the long-term consequences of it.

Guy Branum

#10. The fact that I was a believer, a Christian, everybody immediately thought this guy's a minister, he's so nice and, oh by the way, he can play a little bit. The other thing for me is being undersized. What a great story, what an overachiever, kind of like Rudy.

Mike Singletary

#11. Everybody thinks you can get by by being Mr. Nice Guy, but that's not what winning programs do. Winning programs have a plan.

Pete Sessions

#12. But no matter what the dictionary says, in my opinion, a problem derails your life and an inconvenience is not being able to get a nice seat on the un-derailed train. Given that, I've had three and a half problems. A dead guy in my bed, substance abuse, and manic-depression.

Carrie Fisher

#13. I'm not interested in awards. I never have been. I don't think they are important. Don't get me wrong, if somebody gives me a prize, I thank them as gratefully as I know how, because it's very nice to be given a prize. But I don't think that awards ought to be sought.

John Hurt

#14. It's always really cool when you get to play with someone who you like and they go out of their way to be nice to you; it's not just a 'oh I played with them but I didn't meet them' sort of situation, so shout out to those guys for being awesome.

Hoodie Allen

#15. Cowardice, when done correctly, can be its own kind of bravery.

Paul Neilan

#16. To survive in a lot of male-dominated situations - the police, the military, what have you - you put on a bit of the crass, blowhard thing, because you just can't survive being the nice guy in those environments.

Dean Norris

#17. When I was in college, I thought about becoming an attorney. But I wasn't smart enough; I hate being cooped up indoors; and I'm too nice a guy.

Arnold Palmer

#18. One day about 10 years ago the door to my office opened and who walked in but Bill Gates ... Seemed like a nice guy and has done more with his money than most billionaires. But that's as far as I want to go being kind to Bill Gates.

Andy Rooney

#19. I won't make it that easy for you to find fault in me. You just may have to come to terms with the fact that I really am a nice guy, and you like being around me."
A Hearts Salvation

Dana Christy

#20. It's nice being liked for playing the nice guy, but it's also fun to be the funny one.

Matt McGorry

#21. Are you going to be nice to me now?"
"I'm always nice to you." Sure. Law ground his chin into Tom's groin, making
Tom jump.
"Why would I suddenly start being nice to you?" Law said. "You put out for an asshole. That guy is still here.

Jez Morrow

#22. [P]eople think of compassion as, like, kindness. The image comes to mind of some nice New Age guy bending to something with a look on his face like he's about to cry. And I don't think that's it. I think of it more as a quality of openness that comes with being in a state of unusual attentiveness.

George Saunders

#23. For me, there are worse things than being pigeonholed as the nice guy.

John Krasinski

#24. I'm a big crier in general. The right life insurance commercial will take me out for a couple of days.

Ike Barinholtz

#25. I do get starstruck working with Bruce because even though he is such a nice guy he's a real movie star. I grew up watching his movies it is just really hard to get used to just being around Bruce Willis. I mean, he's Bruce Willis!

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

#26. God longs intensively for unhindered communication and total response between him and the believer indwelt by the Holy Spirit

Smith Wigglesworth

#27. I don't want easy. I want the impossible. I want love so thick, I drown in it; it's the only thing worth having and, I'm sorry Kona, you're a nice guy when you're not acting like an entitled jackass, but I really don't think you're capable of being anything more than that.

Eden Butler

#28. A nice thing about being 40 is that you're not a kid about your understanding of sex or sexuality anymore.

Guy Branum

#29. My job is to provide the atmosphere and assistance to the contestants to get them to perform at their very best. And if I'm successful doing that, I will be perceived as a nice guy, and the audience will think of me as being a bit of a star.

Alex Trebek