Anthony Daniels Quotes

Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don't realize it. It's very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring to watch on its own.

I have a greater appreciation for kitchen appliances, having played one.

It is easy to be lenient at other people's expense, and call it generosity of mind.

Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.

Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.

Unilateral tolerance in a world of intolerance is like unilateral disarmament in a world of armed camps: it regards hope as a better basis for policy than reality.

I have never understood the liberal assumption that if there were justice in the world, there would be fewer rather than more prisoners.

We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.

Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.

Where hopes are unrealistic, fears often become exaggerated; where dreams alone are blueprints, nightmares result.

[There] is no class so dangerous as the idle educated.

Cruelty is like hope: it springs eternal.

Civilization is the sum total of all those activities that allow men to transcend mere biological existence and reach for a richer mental, aesthetic, material, and spiritual life.

You know, a lot of people are loath to go to an orchestral concert because they are intimidated by the thought.

I don't do that many appearances at conventions. I like to keep them special for me. And for the fans, I hope.

On a film set everyone is very cool. Well, blase really.

Over the years, I've loved being on stage with an orchestra, waving my hands around.

Where fashion in clothes, bodily adornment, and music are concerned, it is the underclass that increasingly sets the pace. Never before has there been so much downward cultural aspiration.

In the modern view, unbridled personal freedom is the only good to be pursued; any obstacle to it is a problem to be overcome.

In a democratic age, only the behavior of the authorities is subject to public criticism; that of the people themselves, never.

It is strange, is it not, how the more strenuously we deny the importance of race in human affairs, the more obsessed with it and the touchier on the subject we grow.

It is hard to oppose an ideology with a tradition.

Modernity is the most transient of qualities.

We are like creatures so dazzled with our own technological prowess that we no longer think it necessary to consider the obvious.

Mediocrity triumphs because it presents itself as democratic and because it is dull, and so for many does not seem worth struggling against.

All I ever wanted to do was act.

Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence

The tattoo has a profound meaning: the superficiality of modern man's existence.

For the sake of democracy, vigorous, civilized debate must replace the law of silence that political correctness has imposed.

The real and most pressing question raised by any social problem is: "How do I appear concerned and compassionate to all my friends, colleagues, and peers?

It is curious how an age of public self-revelation, and of the use of psychological jargon, should also be an age when self-examination is rarely practised.

Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of human limitations.

The nearer emotional life approaches to hysteria, to continual outward show, the less genuine it becomes. Feeling becomes equated with vehemence of expression, so that insincerity becomes permanent.

For intellectuals, everyone's mind is closed but their own.

If a lack of money had prevented people from improving their lot, then mankind would still be living in the caves: unless you believe that investment capital first arrived from outer space.

Reason can never be the absolute dictator of man's mental or moral economy.