Christopher Quotes

I don't tell people I'm white anymore - I'm albino-Cambodian.

The deeds of the children are a testament to the upbringing they received from their parents.

America is better when all of us take care of all of us.

Do not imagine that you can escape judgment if you rob people with a false prospectus rather than with a knife.

The paternalist is a sentimentalist at heart, and the sentimentalist is always potentially cruel.

A lot of people have fancy things to say about customer service, but it's just a day-in, day-out, ongoing, never-ending, persevering, compassionate kind of activity.

You cannot miss what you have never had.

A black widow loves her mate then kills him. A praying mantis loves her mate then eats him. Women love my dad, but he's too big to eat.

I don't feel like I'm half as important as Elliott Smith or Kurt Cobain. And I'm not going to be somebody that became so unhappy that he succumbed.

It's a perfect day here in Australia, glorious blue sunshine

I don't think actors are to blame for poor writing. The culture changes first, and the theater follows it. In the case of the movies, it's the same thing.

You should take some responsibility for the way you present yourself. But you should not be hung up on your looks, whether you are ugly or handsome, because it isn't an achievement.

Glorious the song, when God's the theme.

The fact that I have a lot of songs written doesn't keep me from wanting to write new ones, or new ones from coming.

It's often a bad sign when people defend themselves against charges which haven't been made.

A point, like a joke, is a terrible thing to miss.

It is not that there are no certainties, it is that it is an absolute certainty that there are no certainties.

I refuse to allow a disability to determine how I live my life. There is only one way to go in life and that is forward.

it is interesting to find that people of faith now seek defensively to say that they are no worse than fascists or Nazis or Stalinists

For I bless God in the libraries of the learned and for all the booksellers in the world.

I read books all the time, I'm always reading. I'm not like somebody that reads really fast or a lot or anything, but I always have a book that I'm reading.

Ladies, if you're at the mall and you think your man is looking at other girls just remember: If your man is at the mall with you... he... loves you.

The church was made for mission-God's mission

Sometimes, to help the people you love, you've gotta commit a felony.

there is a relationship between the mind and the body that can both create a physical condition and enable us to recover from it

The biggest idiot you will meet in life will be the person that thinks they know it all.

What if there were no hypothetical situations?

Texas is killing people in the 73rd trimester.

I have a lot of trouble with scripts. I have a lot of trouble imagining things while I'm reading them.

To help someone who is down on their luck is admirable. To help an adversary who is down on their luck is divine.

We all have many more abilities and internal resources than we know. My advice is that you don't need to break your neck to find out about them.

You ask whether I am going over to the history of science... no, I am not as old as that.

It's certainly difficult to balance marketing a film and putting it out there to everybody with wanting to keep it fresh for the audience.

I hate the idea that cooking should be a celebration or a party.

What word or expression do you most overuse? Re-reading a collection of my stuff, I was rather startled to find that it was 'perhaps.

It's difficult to keep anything fresh for an audience these days. With technology being what it is people seem to know everything there is to know about a film before you've even made it.

Once asked if he felt wearied by the constant onslaught of autograph seekers, actor Gregory Peck replied that he would be more worried when they stopped asking.

I've done a lot of films that have become iconic, not necessarily because of me.

At Oxford one was positively encouraged to take wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied.

What's really important for me is, as an old man, I'm known by my own generation and the next generation know me, too.

For me, the life of the angler is an almost flawless example of how not to have a good time.

I didn't want to be known as a man who only made horror films. I made some - very few.

The secret to a long marriage in the film industry? Marry someone wonderful, as I did. And always have her come along on location.

Comedy is the most difficult thing to do. Easily the most difficult.

If two or more organs of the body are not squirting fluids, the story's no good!

Allow a friend to believe in a bogus prospectus or a false promise and you cease, after a short while, to be a friend at all.

I have no bones to pick and no fight with society. And I'm willing to be and interested in being in the mainstream of society.

If you're an actor, a hard thing is to stick around, to stay viable. I try to do that by taking the opportunity to do something different every once in awhile.

I love Chicago. It is my new favorite city. It is the perfect place to do any kind of theater.

Peter Jackson's instincts are extraordinary, as is his stamina.