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" Everybody gets sick; everybody has had a problem with insurance or the prescription drugs they're supposed to be taking or an elderly parent who needs care. "
Michael Moore
Problem
Care
Insurance
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" If you believe in equality, if you believe in standing up for the rights of all, especially for people most affected by bigotry and discrimination, then you have no choice but to be present and accounted for when it comes to standing up for gays and lesbians in our society. "
Michael Moore
You
Believe
Equality
" I did not like 'The Hurt Locker.' It's a lazy way to make a movie, frankly. I could put you on the edge of your seat quite easily, and have you feel the tension for 2 hours, if every other scene practically is, 'Should we cut the red wire or the green wire?' "
Michael Moore
Feel
Green
Hurt
" If you're in a diabetic or prediabetic state, it's good to have medication to go on for a period of time. But simply by making the changes - get your sleep, 35 grams of fiber and a half-hour walk - your cholesterol will come down, your sugar will come down, and your blood pressure will come down. Only the minority of people can't control it. "
Michael Moore
Sleep
Walk
Control
" You need to have a relationship with what you put inside you. I don't want to get all spiritual about this, but I believe our bodies are a gift, and to deface it is disrespectful. "
Michael Moore
Gift
Spiritual
Believe
" One thing I've learned about death threats is that they're great, actually. You should actually be grateful for death threats because those who are taking the time to threaten you that way are getting it out of their system. That's really what they rant to do, yell at you, and they want to threaten you. "
Michael Moore
Time
Great
Death
" I went without health insurance until 'Roger & Me,' basically - from about age 20 till about age 35. With 'Roger & Me,' I joined the Directors Guild and the Writers Guild, and since then I've had excellent health care managed by the union. "
Michael Moore
Health
Insurance
Age
" This life is a gift, and to reject that gift or abuse that gift is not human and not worthy of us. "
Michael Moore
Abuse
Gift
Human
" Clearly I am a person who suffers from a lack of ego. "
Michael Moore
Who
Clearly
Ego
" Television has its own award. It's called the Emmy. It's a good award. I like it. I have one. But you don't see movies like 'The King's Speech' win Oscars and then go to TV and qualify for Emmys. In documentaries, some networks have been able to game the system. "
Michael Moore
King
Speech
Award
" Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy. "
Michael Moore
Spectator
Democracy
Event
" If anything, I don't have to convince the American public that we have a broken health-care system. I think the majority of Americans since they have to go through that health-care system, already know it. "
Michael Moore
Know
American
Go
" The idea that cinema can be dangerous is a great idea. "
Michael Moore
Dangerous
Great
Cinema
" Politicians never keep all their promises. "
Michael Moore
Politicians
Keep
Never
" My dad was an assembly line worker at AC Spark Plug, which was a division of General Motors, and his job was to build and then inspect the little spark plugs as they came off the line. "
Michael Moore
Job
Line
Division
" Many criminals believe what they say is true; they could pass a lie detector test. "
Michael Moore
Believe
Lie
Say
" I rallied against Clinton when he was in office. I didn't vote for him in '96. I didn't vote for Gore in 2000. "
Michael Moore
He
Him
Office
" I was a good little boy and a good student. I've never been arrested. "
Michael Moore
Boy
Good
Good Student
" There is nowhere in the four Gospels where Jesus uses the word 'homosexual.' "
Michael Moore
Four
Word
Where
" I'm tired of this discussion of capitalism and socialism; we live in the 21st century, we need an economic system that has democracy as its underpinnings and an ethical code. "
Michael Moore
Socialism
Tired
Live
" I remember the first time I received a cassette tape of a band called The Clash. I became an instant fan of the Clash and then bought their albums after that and went to their concerts and gave them my money... but I first got it for free. "
Michael Moore
First
Remember
Time
" There's politics in all aspects of our daily lives. "
Michael Moore
Aspects
Politics
Our
" The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to work for them. "
Michael Moore
Without
Work
World
" Oprah's got good politics, she's got a good heart, and she'll have us all up Jazzercising at six in the morning. This cannot be a bad thing, and reading a book while we're Jazzercising. So America would be better off if Oprah were president. "
Michael Moore
Book
Good
Politics
" I tell everybody on the first day of making a movie that if anyone's here to further their career, they should leave. I'm gonna make the movie in such a way that we won't have a career when this movie comes out. Because the people who hold the moneybags are not going to want to share any of that money with us to make the next movie! "
Michael Moore
People
Way
Career
" I watch way too much C-SPAN. "
Michael Moore
Watch
Much
Too
" If you reduce the guns and the ammo, you'll reduce the murders. "
Michael Moore
Reduce
You
Guns
" Our laws demand that a corporation have a fiduciary responsibility with shareholders to maximize profits. They are legally required to make as much money as possible, any way possible within 'the law.' "
Michael Moore
Law
Responsibility
Money
" Diets are a scam. "
Michael Moore
Diets
Scam
" There's nothing pure about capitalism. "
Michael Moore
Pure
Nothing
About
" Middle class jobs prevent crime and violence. "
Michael Moore
Crime
Class
Violence