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As an actor there are no drawbacks. -- John Malkovich
One of the drawbacks of Fame is that one can never escape from it. -- Nellie Melba
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. -- Arnold Bennett
This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes. -- Katherine Dunn
Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've experienced them both. -- Marilyn Monroe
A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it. -- Mary Augusta Ward
I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin. -- Thandie Newton
It is estimated that raising the retirement age to 70 would cut the shortfall by about 36%. But this proposal has some drawbacks. Women and men who have worked jobs that require manual labor all of their lives may not physically be able to do work until they are 70 years old. -- Steve Israel
A full, rich drawing style is a drawback. -- Bill Griffith
Pull the good out of it and not worry about the drawbacks. -- Chris Squire
One of the drawbacks of English is you can't spell things by hearing them. -- Bill Nye
The greatest drawback in making pictures is the fact that film makers have to eat. -- Ray Milland
Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day. -- Glen Cook
France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country. -- Mark Twain
I have the power of my height. Growing up, it was a total drawback. There was nothing good about it at all. -- Allison Janney
Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses. -- St. Jerome
But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses. -- Jerome K. Jerome
Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men. -- Baruch Spinoza
Evaluating the benefits and drawbacks of any relaitonship is your responsibility. You do not have to passively accept what is brought to you. You can choose. -- Deborah
The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time. -- Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
Growing up in the business you have to grow up very fast - you do have a different type of childhood, that has its benefits and it has its drawbacks. -- Jodie Sweetin
Growing up in the business you have to grow up very fast - you do have a different type of childhood, that has its benefits and it has its drawbacks. -- Jodie Sweetin
Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius. -- John Philip Sousa
One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes to the mail, I feel it is better to receive than to give. -- Joseph Epstein
I find many drawbacks of myself. But, each time when I visit Lourdes, I receive a lesson of reconciliation. When you see ill people or invalids around, you realize that it is a sin to complain! -- Mireille Mathieu
We can only learn to deal with failure by actually experiencing failure, by living through it. The earlier we face difficulties and drawbacks, the better prepared we are to deal with the inevitable obstacles along our path. -- Tal Ben-Shahar
Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack. -- Soong May-ling
Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time. -- Christopher Fry
There's a certain logic to avoiding the haters, but as a strategy, it's utterly flawed. When you turn off the feedback, you lose the benefits as well as the drawbacks. It's like having a sore finger and cutting off your arm. -- Rob Manuel
Who is happy with his appearance? I find many drawbacks of myself. But, each time when I visit Lourdes, I receive a lesson of reconciliation. When you see ill people or invalids around, you realize that it is a sin to complain! -- Mireille Mathieu
Think of the difference between a team sport and one that you do by yourself. Like it or not, if you're by yourself, you're going to be faced with a lot more of your own doubts and your own drawbacks and your own whatever. -- Campbell Scott
Becoming a vampire is forever. You don't get to change your mind about it later. For me, I think that's one of the big drawbacks with anything that's permanent. How do you know how you're going to feel in five years or 10 years? Even with a tattoo. -- Stephenie Meyer
It's important with any new technology to try to pay conscious attention to what the drawbacks might be. We choose to multitask. Sometimes our choices aren't the wisest of choices, and we regret them, but they are our choices. I think it'd be wrong to think that they're automatically bad. -- James Gleick
I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man. -- Pat Paulsen
Art has a way of confronting us, of reminding us, of engaging us, in what it means to be human, and what it means to be human is to be flawed, is to be contradictory, is to be often weak, and yet despite all of these what we would consider drawbacks, that we're also quite beautiful. Spin is the opposite. -- Junot Diaz
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My instinct has always been to turn drawbacks into drawing cards. -- Marie Dressler
If you want excellence, you must aim at perfection. It has its drawbacks but being finicky is essential. -- J. R. D. Tata
One of the drawbacks to life is that it contains moments when one is compelled to tell the truth, -- P. G. Wodehouse
One of love's greatest drawbacks is that, for a while at least, it is in danger of making us happy. -- Alain de Botton
Jail is a good experience but it has its drawbacks ... all the disadvantages of married life with none of its compensations ... -- Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
It is indeed one of the principal drawbacks of every kind of interventionism that it is so difficult to reverse the process. -- Ludwig von Mises
drawbacks are good when you are on holiday. If the holiday were too good you might not want to go home again ... -- Katharine Tynan
Whatever the drawbacks and failures I am convinced that in years to come humanity will look back to Soviet achievements as a source of profound inspiration -- Ronnie Kasrils
Evaluating the benefits and drawbacks of any relationship is your responsibility. You do not have to passively accept what is brought to you. You can choose. -- Deborah Day
The worst part of it is you don't know if he's barking at an owl, the moon or a burglar!" "That's one of the drawbacks of a limited vocabulary! -- Charles M. Schulz
Young men may enjoy dropping their work at five or six o'clock and slipping into a dress suit for an evening of pleasure; but the habit has certain drawbacks. -- Charles M. Schwab
One of the many drawbacks of this "I teach what I am" approach is that it stifles classroom discussion. Any disagreement with the professor's expertise comes off as an ad hominem attack. -- Maureen Corrigan
Nuclear power, once regarded as petroleum's natural heir, has become less and less attractive as its numerous drawbacks come to light. Coal, the other fossil fuel, is ultimately as exhaustible as oil. -- Lester R. Brown
A victim to certain obscure forms of gout, he was in character neither stupid, nor inhuman, but he suffered from the usual drawbacks of his class, - too much money, and too few ideas. -- Mary Augusta Ward
The truth is I suppose that a tour lays in a great stock of thought and spirits for the future; the fatigue and drawbacks of actual travelling are forgotten and a bright residuum remains. -- Henry Parry Liddon
Contrary to what many of you may imagine, a career in letters is not without its drawbacks - chief among them the unpleasant fact that one is frequently called upon to sit down and write. -- Fran Lebowitz
Decide which is the line of conduct that presents the fewest drawbacks and then follow it out as being the best one, because one never finds anything perfectly pure and unmixed, or exempt from danger. -- Niccolo Machiavelli

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