Some people ask me, ‘Why do you do what you do with so much passion?’ So I tell them, I prefer to be a helping hand to others than to sit around and watch them...

If people have to put labels on me, I’d prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the third to be folk singer.

I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to ‘unreliable.’

I lived in a hut with no roof, and I rode to school on a donkey. I used to shoot birds with a slingshot to cook for dinner. Now I prefer to get my food...

I prefer writing in the mornings, so to that extent I have a routine. I do reading and other things in the afternoon.

There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth – if the latter were unflattering.

I don’t want an uneventful and safe life, I prefer an adventurous one.

I prefer sayings over jokes.

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

I prefer to see with closed eyes.

I used to think then that I was Bohemian, but I know now that I am not. I prefer order and precision to untidiness and looseness.

I prefer to play the villain or the antihero.

I have a driver’s licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.

I don’t tear down. I prefer to build up.

Actors will never be replaced. The thought that somehow a computer version of a character is going to be something people prefer to look at is a ludicrous idea.

Don’t accept the available as the preferable. Go extra mile with extra speed.

It is not against reason, said the Englishman, to prefer the destruction of the world to a scratch on your finger – how much easier to understand the same price for the gash in your...

I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.

On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.

I prefer a cluttered workspace.

I prefer to say that I am a beautiful person. But the addict is a horrible person.

I guess I do prefer a ball cap. I have performed without a cap, mostly at funerals and weddings.

I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.

I prefer the word ‘homemaker’ because ‘housewife’ always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.

I don’t believe in email. I’m an old-fashioned girl. I prefer calling and hanging up.

When I am spotted somewhere, it means that my characterizations haven’t covered up Eleanor Parker the person. I prefer it the other way around.

I prefer having sex with myself rather than with someone who wants something instead.

I prefer to stay poor.

We tend to prefer candidates that don’t talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco.

I prefer ugly things. I prefer things which are surprising.

I prefer to love the one my heart has chosen for me, and I won’t regret it

I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.

I prefer film and that’s what I think I’m gonna put my focus on.

I prefer a scruffy atmosphere.

It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.

I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.

I prefer fact to fiction.

I prefer to see a good exhibit sponsored by a brand than a bad exhibit due to lack of funds.

I’m still ambiguously ethnic. I could be Persian – I could be anything. But I’m Italian and Jewish, so I’m a citizen of the world; that’s what I prefer.

A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.

I prefer the rather old and battered, things with character, to the brand new.

Personally, I prefer the dark side.

I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for ‘then’ but a message for ‘now.’

J’ai toujours préféré la folie des passions à la sagesse de l’indifférence.

It sounds really arrogant, but my music’s my favourite music ever. I prefer it to anyone else’s.