Time & Perspective Quote by David Arquette

Arquette’s line reads like a backstage pep talk aimed at an audience that’s exhausted by the constant public audit of bodies. The opening move is deliberately blunt: “round people” and “skinny people” are almost cartoon categories, the kind you’d see in tabloid captions or comment sections. By naming them so plainly, he’s calling out how ridiculous the sorting has gotten - and how quickly “preference” becomes permission to police someone else.

The pivot to “people in general” isn’t just kumbaya; it’s an attempt to reclaim a baseline humanity in a culture where everyone is branded, optimized, and compared. “Labels” here means more than body size. It’s also celebrity culture’s favorite sport: reducing a person to a headline-friendly trait, then treating that trait like a moral score. Coming from an actor - someone who lives inside casting types and public-facing identities - the plea lands as both sincere and self-aware. He’s describing the machine he works in.

The subtext is anxiety about the cost of criticism as entertainment. “Stop being so critical about everything” isn’t asking for less honesty; it’s asking for less reflexive cruelty, less instant verdict-making. It’s a small, warm resistance to a world where image is currency and judgment is a hobby. In a moment when “body positivity” can get commodified into slogans, Arquette’s plain language is the point: not theory, not branding, just a request to let people exist without being graded.