Christian Quotes

There's nothing like boxing for getting you in shape.

I become a bit of a blank page in public. And that's precisely why I like acting.

I don't think I'm like any of the characters I've played. They're all really far from who I am.

I swear, the bigger your muscles get, the duller you are. You become fascinated with carbs and protein and ripped abs and things that are just not interesting at all.

All good writing leaves something unexpressed.

After the modest success of my first film, I found it very daunting to have to live with that kind of burden of expectations.

Mermaids have no tears, and so they suffer all the more.

I like my customer to be fierce.

In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong.

Planning a career, I always find a tricky thing, because I don't have much of a plan, really.

I'm English. Our dentistry is not world famous. But I made sure I got moldings of my old teeth beforehand because I miss them.

Beauty can afford to laugh at distinctions: it is itself the greatest distinction.

You are not at home where your residence are but where you are understood.

My favorite sound is definitely mules. If it was an instrument, it's really pingthe touch of the black keys of the piano.

I don't repeat that many styles if I can help, although some have become classics. I try not to repeat. I'd rather surprise people.

My job is designing shoes. It's work that happens behind the scenes, as they say, and that suits me just fine because in general I am a shy person. But sometimes I have these extroverted outbursts.

The use we make of our fortune determines its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely, and too much if expended foolishly.

Well, yes: people write poems when they are in love, but a wise man will not print them.

When it comes to films, people often don't differentiate between the message of a bad central character and the message of the film itself. They are two separate things.

'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time before my English accent came out again. I was actually having to try for it.

You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life or not.

For me, I think the harder the shoot, the more I feel like I'm enjoying myself.

To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes the preaching.

I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It's wonderful, isn't it?

Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.

Literature simply becomes richer after you've been fired, rejected, stranded, or had to change a few midnight diapers.

Progress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery.

Essentially, I'm untrained, so I just go with my imagination and try to put myself as solidly as I can into the shoes of whatever person I'm going to be playing.

Depend only upon yourself, but work in harmony with all things.

Life *is* complex, and, in many ways, life *is* beyond our comprehension today...Sometimes important questions have maddeningly complex or inconvenient answers that neither satisfy nor soothe.

Even today, I am still very child-like while designing. It's a bit like Christmas - each of your designs you create is like unravelling your presents.

One cannot quite trust the word of potted flowers," thought the butterfly; "they have too much to do with men.

I did regret not graduating high school, but I made a point of going back and getting my GED later. It was important for my kids.

In Paris, I really do like to try and do nothing... but that's impossible.

The person who has been photographed, not the total person, is dead, dead for having been seen.

Hopefully, that people could see a progression in my performances because that's how it's always felt to me.

The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.

Time is so fleeting that if we do not remember God in our youth, age may find us incapable of thinking of him.

I want to do good work. I want the opportunity to work with good people, and the only way I'm gonna do that is to commit 110% - you get out what you put in.

The smell of subjectivity clings to the mechanical definition of complexity as stubbornly as it sticks to the definition of information.

Existence without essence is very stressful.

Truth comes to us from the past, as gold is washed down from the mountains of Sierra Nevada, in minute but precious particles, and intermixed with infinite alloy, the debris of the centuries.

If you're doing your job properly, you take the risk of feeling slightly foolish and delve in and bring out the emotions.

A true artist could and should create till the day they die. You don't ever fail as an artist until you quit being an artist.

Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.

People are ready to be actors in making the world a better place.

I've been designing my own pieces for a long time. My mother's a jewelry designer, so we knew at some point we were going to do a line and dive into the fashion world.

You're abandoning a lot of ideas when you are too into comfort. 'Comfy'-that's one of the worst words!

The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.

To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world--without friends or country, home or kindred.