Quotes About Despicable Me

#1. Have you ever seen that movie "Despicable me," the first one? Gru, the main character has become a criminal, and in a simple way, the creators of the movie suggest that he became that way because he was neglected by his mother.

Rita Chester

#2. But the world of Despicable Me is such a cartoony world. It is much more Looney Tunes than I would say the Pixar world or those movies. We can get away with a little more, although I know some people responded negatively to the Iron Maiden beat in the first movie where it looks like Edith.

Cinco Paul

#3. When you listen to the music in this film [Despicable Me], it's working on the level of melody, but the other key element is lyrics. There are a number of songs in the film where the lyrics themselves are very much speaking to the essence of what Ted Geisel was setting out to do.

Christopher Meledandri

#4. I really ought to send him some money, but, honestly, he doesn't need it. He has that sweet Despicable Me money.

Mindy Kaling

#5. I go back to family: 'Ice Age' was about disparate characters rejected by their own kind. They come together to save the child. 'Despicable Me' is about redefining what a family could be. It has a visual distinction and an experimental quality.

Chris Meledandri

#6. Nothing renders a nation so despicable as religious despotism.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#7. Because of President Obama's failed record on nearly every issue from the economy to the deficit to Medicare, the Obama campaign has become increasingly dirty, despicable, and desperate.

Reince Priebus

#8. Because I believe there is nothing so self-destroying, and no emotion quite so despicable, as jealousy.

Daphne Du Maurier

#9. How can the most cruel and despicable create something as breathtaking beautiful as this?

D.S. Wrights

#10. Tricking someone into a relationship is the earmark of a despicable person

Addison Moore

#11. There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.

William Hazlitt

#12. I loved you. I was a pentapod monster, but I loved you. I was despicable and brutal, and turpid, and everything, mais je t'aimais, je t'aimais! And there were times when I knew how you felt, and it was hell to know it, my little one. Lolita girl, brave Dolly Schiller.

Vladimir Nabokov

#13. One could push a pack of truths together to make one despicable falsehood.

Courtney Milan

#14. I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is despicable.

Frank McCourt

#15. Satanic Verses is a despicable book that could not have been written by a person who wished to behave decently and responsibly.

Orson Scott Card

#16. I don't understand how an adult can write those last two sentences and not want to kill themselves for being so despicable.

Harvey Pekar

#17. I wanted to value life, all life, regardless of how despicable some of it could be.

Jodi Meadows

#18. The Nature of men and women -their essential nature- is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.

W. Somerset Maugham

#19. I don't know if you remember me, but I used to work here in the factory."
Were you one of those despicable spies who every day tried to steal my life's work and sell it to those paraseeded cop cat, candy making cads?"
No sir!"
Then wonderful, welcome back!

Johnny Depp

#20. If a man that is desperately sick today, did believe he should arise sound the next morning; or a man today, in despicable poverty, had assurance that he should tomorrow arise a prince: would they be afraid to go to bed ... ?

Richard Baxter

#21. It's a despicable thing to share your personal inner torment for money.

Frank Zappa

#22. Fear feeds the worst in all of us. It drives the most despicable of our natures to the surface.

Joe Hart

#23. Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies.

Francois Fenelon

#24. I may be a despicable person, but when Truth speaks through me I am
invincible.

Mahatma Gandhi

#25. Would you like some wine, or would you prefer to yell at me for a little longer?" asked the Beast pleasantly. "I could leave, if you prefer, but I generally hold that those who leave the room when you wish to yell at them are among the most despicable of beings.

T. Kingfisher

#26. I whisper to the sea three times. Once I ask that Corr will be meek and good, so they'll have no reason to use the bells and magic that he so despises.
But twice I whisper for him to be despicable, so that they'll beg for me to come back.

Maggie Stiefvater

#27. I can play a man who's despicable. But I'll still look inside him to find a point of connection. If I can find that kernel, audiences will relate to me.

Forest Whitaker

#28. You kissed me because you thought I was a servant, which is despicable."
"I kissed you because you were soft and shapely and at the time under me, which is in fact quite reasonable."

-Ravenna & Vitor

Katharine Ashe

#29. Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me - to find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if humankind survives, then we were good tools.

Orson Scott Card

#30. What saddens me most is that some poor woman out there has to be Garth's wife. And his three children
oh, his poor three children. What a despicable human being this guy is.

Benjamin Harrison

#31. How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.

Albert Einstein

#32. In this filthy despicable world someone suddenly reached out and held on to me. My life in my darkest moment, at the moment of all moments. The one person that reached out to me, was you Yoon Jae In

Kim Young-kwang

#33. Why are you taking her side?'
"I'm not. But if I find out you did this, don't expect me to support you just because you're my son. It's despicable, what happened to her."
'What she did is despicable.'
"What she did, she did with you. Now get dressed and get down there.

Robin York

#34. There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one's head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people's pain.

James Baldwin

#35. I'm sure the Industry has been bad to you. I'm sure you have every right to hate it. Keep an open mind however. So long as you do, you might find it's not quite as despicable as you imagine.

Rose Foster

#36. No matter how extreme things get, it still has that ring of truth about it that backs the characters - even though they're despicable and what they're doing isn't right you still care for their fate.

Andy Serkis

#37. Man is the highest essence of man, hence with the categorical imperative to overthrow all relations in which man is a debased, enslaved, abandoned, despicable essence.

Karl Marx

#38. There is nothing in the programming field more despicable than an undocumented program

Edward Yourdon

#39. Freedom of speech means freedom for those who you despise, and freedom to express the most despicable views. It also means that the government cannot pick and choose which expressions to authorize and which to prevent.

Alan Dershowitz

#40. Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

Jane Austen

#41. Be thorough in all you do; and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable.

William E. Gladstone

#42. Ingratitude is a crime more despicable than revenge, which is only returning evil for evil, while ingratitude returns evil for good.

William George Jordan

#43. I can grow cameras!" she had shrieked at the Brill brothers during one briefing. "Who's to say that despicable centaur Foaly hasn't succeded in splicing surveillance equiptment to plants? So get rid of all the flowers. Rocks, too. I don't trust them. Sullen little blebers.

Eoin Colfer

#44. Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger.

George W. Bush

#45. It was defiantly the most gorgeous voice i'd ever heard. It belonged to The rudest Most Despicable Boy I've Ever Met.

Diane Messidoro

#46. The charges are false and despicable. I have not received a fair hearing. This is un-American. All the lawyering will provoke an untoward outcome.

Catherine Crier

#47. It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them.

Marion Milner

#48. I have turned down playing the most despicable people on Earth. I turn it down all the time.

Steven Bauer

#49. I'm looking forward to playing some really despicable characters at some point in my career so I can branch out and stretch those acting muscles. But I wouldn't want to do that on a regular basis.

Zachary Levi

#50. The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#51. War is honorable
In those who do their native rights maintain;
In those whose swords an iron barrier are
Between the lawless spoiler and the weak;
But is, in those who draw th' offensive blade
For added power or gain, sordid and despicable
As meanest office of the worldly churl.

Joanna Baillie

#52. An anarchist does not want to rule others and does not want others to rule him. Nothing is so despicable as half-an-anarchist.

Frank Van Dun

#53. Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is naught but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism.

Charles Studd

#54. One man can change the world, look at Adolf Hitler.

Mary Sage Nguyen

#55. What has happened at Guantanamo Bay ... does not represent the will of the American people. I'm embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.

Jimmy Carter

#56. Do you use 'True Will' as an excuse to do nothing?
Have you declared yourself enlightened?
Damn your weak philosophies; a pox and a pestilence your despicable sloth and arrogance.

Peter J. Carroll

#57. Who despises all that is despicable is made to be impressed with all that is grand.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#58. The despicable crone known as Mombi stands accused of high witchery, gross dishonesty, untold crimes against monkeys, outrageous trespassing, and general unpleasantness. Also, she is extremely unattractive. Miss Amy, do you speak for the witch?

Danielle Paige

#59. To set a precedent, I guess. So that if in the future she ever fell from grace, it would be understood that presidents - even the most despicable - get special treatment.

Suzanne Collins

#60. There is nothing, in itself, valuable or despicable, desirable or hateful, beautiful or deformed; but that these attributes arise from the particular constitution and fabric of human sentiment and affection.

David Hume

#61. The rights of neutrality will only be respected when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral.

Alexander Hamilton

#62. Our extroverted culture makes introverts feel despicable for wanting to be alone. Like thieves snatching something that doesn't belong to them, we have to "steal" a moment of solitude. If only introverts could see that we have a right to our alone time. We have a right to enjoy it too. Think

Michaela Chung