“To be perfectly honest, it has had its handicaps. The thing is that people judge you by your parents' and people expect me to be just like daddy and mother. Therefore, I can't run across the street or anything.”

Jugez-moi, messieurs les jurés, mais si vous m'avez compris, en me jugeant jugez tous les malheureux dont la misère, alliée à la fierté naturelle, a fait des criminels, et dont la richesse, dont l'aisance même aurait fait des honnêtes gens!
Trial statement

Eulogy for Michael Jackson at his memorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MAKLq865bk (7 July 2009).

The Good Terrorist (1985)

There Only Was One Choice
Song lyrics, Dance Band on the Titanic (1977)

Source: Because of Winn-Dixie

Collapsing Dominant (1997)

Source: Diary

Variant: You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter.
Source: The Rescue

Source: The Light Fantastic