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Nobody I represent is pretending to be the pope or a role model for young people. People have to live their lives. They have the right to smoke if they want.

— Ben Affleck

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

What a terrible thing it would be to be the Pope! What unthinkable responsibilities to fall on your shoulders at an advanced age! No privacy. No seclusion. No sin.

— Roger Ebert

I see the work the pope has to do. It is a huge responsibility. Nobody campaigns for it.

— Angelo Scola

To be honest, I don't really care about any pope. It's not something I think about much, to be quite honest with you.

— Viggo Mortensen

My duties are wider than those of the Pope. The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.

— Aga Khan IV

Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.

— Pope John XXIII

There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.

— Moliere

As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less harm to the liberties of my country than will a party, who seek to acquire political power by exciting religious bigotry in the minds of their duped followers.

— Ezra Cornell

I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.

— George Carlin

Those Catholics, they really nab you when you're young.

— Morrissey

✗Opposing Perspectives

I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.

— Howard Stern