Christopher Quotes

It should be a law. Everybody should legally own a gun. In fact, if you're caught outside your house without your gun, you get a ticket. And you get shot in the leg. Just to prove my point.

A racing horse is not like a machine. It has to be tuned up like a racing car.

All the words of wisdom sound the same.

Passion, manners, and 80 ounces of beer will win the heart of any woman. And if it doesn't, you'll be too hammered to remember.

We certainly strive for trying to make a quality record throughout, and I think that's true of all of our records.

The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living.

It's impossible for me to play a part without thinking about the audience.

Both my parents had heavy accents, and so did everybody they knew. It's a rhythm thing - people who speak English where they have to hesitate and think of the right word. And I think it rubbed off.

I became a very angry person and it was all due to alcoholism.

Hollywood wants press, any kind of press.

People are responsible for their actions, but not the fruits of their actions. Always do what you think is right, but don't worry if good does not always come from what you do.

Well, you know what they say. A bullet always tells the truth.

In rehearsal you have a good accident that you can repeat.In the movies if you have a good accident you hope the camera's running.

When a language creates - as it does - a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.

I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it.

The physics are simple in theory, but in practice they are filled with the possibility for limitless error.

Fighting Dad's not a fight. Fighting dad is, "Hi, you've just instigated your own mugging! Come on down!"

I just did something on a show on UPN called "Girlfriends" that will be on television in February. I am actually a much better actor today than I was in 1996, believe it or not.

I care more about telly because it made me an actor and there's a much more immediate response to TV. You can address the political or cultural fabric of your country.

Television, although It's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices.

Lots of middle class people are running around pretending to be Cockney.

Many times I've sat with a camera and another actor and seen all their fears and insecurities and struggles. You want to support them and help them as much as you can.

Besides the soothing effect it has, I think my favorite part of writing is being able to use my imagination and creativity to make new ideas and people and situations come to life.

Without intent all painting is meaningless.

The term 'Pre-Raphaelite' is in danger of becoming one of the most misused tags in art history

It is impossible to forsee the consequences of being clever.

I had bags of energy as a kid.

I had to help to coax the performances and I really enjoyed that extra responsibility.

Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral.

I used my instincts. It's very easy to imagine how you'd feel, actually. I just had to tell the narrative.

We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world.

I don't like to watch playback. But being on the set, watching the way the camera is being moved and the way the light is being used, you do get an idea of it.

Sweet the young muse with love intense, Which smiles o'er sleeping innocence.

For every house is incomplete without him, and a blessing is lacking in the spirit.

I wasn't always such a great fan of Shakespeare, mind you. I can guess we all at one time had it rammed down our necks at school, which tends to take the edge off it.

The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding.

Sometimes failure makes your future because you set the past on fire.

We all need a firm sense of identity.

Make a child a painting and he'll be happy for a day. Teach a child to paint and he'll be miserable for a lifetime.

I become more and more inclined to sink the minister in the man, and abandon my present calling in toto as a profession... to create a living religion in landscape painting.

The enemy combatants in LA are not the citizens and suspects, it's the police officers.

My dad don't like lies. He says it hurts people in the long race. He prefers the truth. That hurts them instantly.

Also, I think there are huge reactions sometimes, which are also mysterious.

For three decades, Democrats and Republicans worked together to make our environment better.

You can never tell what's in a woman's mind, And if she's from Harlem, there's no use o' tryin

Low-income taxpayers deserve the same rights as everyone else. It was wrong of the IRS to target low-income taxpayers, and I am please by the decision to correct this unfair practice.

Magick comes in many forms, and there are many covert master magicians who are so covert that they don't even know they are magicians.

I gradually stopped wondering, ‘What life do I have?' and began to consider, ‘What life can I build?

Connecticut's first responders and defense workers work every day to help us achieve these goals.

Is typecasting really a problem?