Christopher Quotes

By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy - the one that's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

Even when you disagree with her, she electrifies your mind.

The trade-off between freedom and security, so often proposed so seductively, very often leads to the loss of both.

Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like.

Fame or infamy, either one is preferable to being forgotten when you have passed from this realm.

Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.

Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor, that's my training.

Everybody has to be a little lucky, I think.

Film is the best way to capture an image and project that image. It just is, hands down.

And he who is forever talking about enemies / Is himself the enemy!

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Some people who look at abstract art say 'I could do that.' A good response is, 'Go ahead but then you'll be accused of copying.

Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul.

My favourite word? I think, delicious, because it sounds so delicious. You say it, and you just wanna eat a chocolate bar.

Later, I learned that our forgetting of the parakeet had begun even before the species was extinct.

I think I'm what they call a never-was.

The songs of the dead are the lamentations of the living.

Shall we dance,friend of my heart?" We shall, little one.

Norway was occupied by the Germans in the Second World War, and I've met a lot of people who had to live through that occupation in varying degrees.

Life is both pain and pleasure. If this is the price you must pay for the hours you enjoy, is it too much?

That is the mysterious thing about tragedy- it often strikes at the happiest moment.

Hope is merely another face of desire.

Tis impossible to be sure of any thing but death and taxes.

Who needs evidence when you've got the Internet?

The value of the work we do is the value we give to it.

And my life went to pieces, like a love letter in the rain.

A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.

The first horror movie I saw, in first or second grade, was My Bloody Valentine [1981], where there's a deranged killer in a miner mask stalking a small coal town.

You can only have one aim per debate.

I'm so busy these days. I forget everything but my lines.

I just can't tell you what fun I've had being a member of the world's second oldest profession.

Donald Trump has been rewriting the rules since he got into politics.

If elected, Hillary Clinton will be the least popular president to be elected in modern history. So there's going to be very little incentive on the part of Republicans to work with her.

I leave it to the faithful to burn each other's churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can be always relied upon to do

The atheist proposition is the following - most of the time - it may not be said that there is no god; it may be said that there is no reason to think that there is one.

One day the good times had to keep on rolling, and all of life's horseshit would turn to circuses.

It's better to ask forgiveness than permission. - Brom