I don't want to play earnest. I'd rather play somebody who's kind of sleazy. It's much more fun, especially in a comedy. You don't want to be some earnest guy who's just trying to do the right thing but can't. I want to be doing the wrong thing intentionally.

My theory is children don't do what you tell them to do, they do what you do. You have to always do the right thing because they follow you.

When you do the right thing, but not to any particular person, we instinctively feel that we have earned some sort of pay back. Since no-one will do that for us, we opt for self-service reciprocation.

Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too.

I had seen 'Do the Right Thing' when I was at college, and it was incredibly inspiring as a piece of cinema. Just brilliant, I thought. But saw 'Malcolm X' with a crowded audience. It was my first time in an American cinema, hearing an audience respond. You know, in England, everyone is so restrained.

I'm a huge Spike Lee fan. I saw 'Do The Right Thing' twice in the same night when it first came out and had long conversations with all my friends about the issues in it.

It's so hard to do the right thing with a pen and a piece of paper and a set of abstract thoughts.

I think Alaskans expect me to think, to think about them and do the right thing for them.

If you give people the opportunity to do the right thing, you'll rarely be disappointed.

When we came to Iraq, we didn't understand the complexity - what it meant for a society to live under a brutal dictatorship with ethnic and sectarian divisions. When we first got here, we made a lot of mistakes. We were like a blind man, trying to do the right thing but breaking a lot of things.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.

We have built up, through our global engagement, a set of institutions that have been built on trust, fundamentally on trust, where allies had trust in the United States to do the right thing when it really came down to it.

We have to learn that not everyone deserves our tears. You have to do the right thing even if someone mocks you.

I have faith in the justice system, and what will happen will happen. I'm just trying to do the right thing.

I'm interested in people that don't always do the right thing, its much more akin to what I know about life.

'Do the Right Thing' was my first union film. I looked at the rosters, and for the most part, it was white males. Especially the Teamsters. So we had some conversations.

You try to do the right thing at the right time and make a good impression on people.

While I am a Republican, I'm a conservative first and I'm a constitutional conservative, and in Washington some of the Republicans are oftentimes just as much a problem as some of the Democrats, and we need to elect more senators like Senator Rubio and others who will stand proudly as conservatives to do the right thing for our country.

As a person, I am not really someone who would intervene and tell you to do the right thing.

Your personal integrity, once established and earned, people don't have to think about it. They know. They know you. They know you'll do the right thing every time.