TOP 20 Aaron Sorkin Quotes

TOP 20 Aaron Sorkin Quotes.

“Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.”
— Aaron Sorkin (00:00)

“Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart people who disagree with them.”
— Aaron Sorkin (00:07)

“You’re going to fall down, but the world doesn’t care how many times you fall down, as long as it’s one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up.”
— Aaron Sorkin (00:14)

“Never argue with a drunk or a fool.”
— Aaron Sorkin (00:21)

“Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.”
— Aaron Sorkin (00:28)

“Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit, things that are easy, things that are free, things that you can do every day. Civility, respect, kindness, character.”
— Aaron Sorkin (00:35)

“Music is what mathematics does on a Saturday night.”
— Aaron Sorkin (00:42)

“Decisions are made by those who show up.”
— Aaron Sorkin (00:49)

“Toby Zeigler: There’s literally no one in the world I don’t hate right now.”
— Aaron Sorkin (00:56)

“Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder.”
— Aaron Sorkin (01:03)

“She’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.”
— Aaron Sorkin (01:10)

“I love writing. I’m not particularly comfortable in the actual world – I’m much more comfortable on the page. So if I could have a life where I could just slip the pages under the door and somebody would slip me a meal back, then that would be perfect for me.”
— Aaron Sorkin (01:17)

“Tell me what you think and then tell me what the really smart person in the room who disagrees with you thinks.”
— Aaron Sorkin (01:24)

“Josh: So, Toby, it’s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it? Toby: God bless America.”
— Aaron Sorkin (01:31)

“We live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns.”
— Aaron Sorkin (01:38)

“Decisions are made by those who show up. Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world.”
— Aaron Sorkin (01:45)

“Perhaps something like Facebook couldn’t have been invented by somebody who goes out five nights a week and has a ton of friends and makes friends really easily.”
— Aaron Sorkin (01:52)

“A friend is somebody who says the same things to your face that they would say if you’re not in the room.”
— Aaron Sorkin (01:59)

“It seems to me that more and more we’ve come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.”
— Aaron Sorkin (02:06)

“I don’t believe there are two sides to every argument. I think the facts are the center. And watching the news abandon the facts in favor of ‘fairness’ is what’s troubling to me.”
— Aaron Sorkin (02:13)

Music credit: Easy Day - Kevin MacLeod