St. Dominic Quotes

I don't write for Christians. I write for people. I write so that if a Christian hears my music, they're going to be encouraged because I'm writing from the Christian worldview.

I look like a turnip with hair in the morning!

Especially with comedy, you take massive risks because ultimately you're trying to be funny. If you're not funny, then it's really embarrassing and you look stupid.

If you look at little kids and wild animals, these are two groups of things that whenever I'm with them forces me to be in the moment.

I guess we're living in a pretty sensitive world and there's nothing you can do about that.

I'm turned on by diversity. I'm turned on by things that are different. I like different animals, I like different ways of travel, and I like different people.

[Michael] Gove will be the underdog fighting for the underdog in this leadership race.

Since I got married my wife doesn't really let me wear anything that I used to because she says I have no taste at all.

I'm not a great fan of green screen. It's not much fun for actors. It's great for directors and technical people and cameramen.

My brother's a teacher in Costa Rica and actually does a more important and significant job than I will ever do.

I love animals. I love being around them.

In a boom, envy; in a bust, anger.

As crazy as it sounds, I really think that God just put the reggae thing in me. I can point to a few things in my life that pushed me in that direction.

To see the light we must first acknowledge that we are in the dark.

Holidays are all different depending on the company and time of your life.

Obviously the idea of being human is a very human idea.

When I go on holiday, I go to places that have animals I'm interested in.

They would wake me up when I was sleeping, and say sing a song for our friends. I had a sweet voice, I had a nice little tenor voice. God knows what I sang, but my whole family would admire me.

I hope to be an actor and never retire.

I enjoy the preparatory elements of travel - packing my bags and choosing my outfits - but my favourite part is getting there.

Even though I'm English, I've all my life been heavily exposed to American television and culture in general.

The truth is lots of films are made, the majority of which are terrible.

Sometimes the roles you're being offered, leads in films aren't good enough. Actually it's you're better going and doing a radio play or a decent TV.

I suppose theres an anger in all of us. Some hidden rage that you keep at bay.

I think you grow up wanting to be a racing driver. Then it dawns on you that it's not going to happen.

I've always been astonished by how wonderful he [Timur Bekmambetov] makes something look for so little. I think he shoots action like no one else.

You want to know if anyone's going to go see your film. You shouldn't worry about it or get hung up on it. So yea, you kind of monitor it.

I have always worked from that place, that if you are going to inhabit someone and get under their eyes, you need to have empathy.

I need something different [roles], always something just slightly different, that pushes you and challenges you.

His face is so calm, He shows no sign of stress or anything. Its as if he's saying, "No problem. Relax. I'm just going to beat you now. It's not going to hurt a bit."

The stunt guys are absolutely brilliant, but all this stuff [a scene] always looks better when you do it yourself.

You've got to grab every opportunity that comes up.

The kiss always gets a hell of a reaction.

I went on tour in the play H.M.S. Pinafore.

Im the kind of guy, when the marriage is breaking up, who doesnt want to yell in front of the kids. So I left, but it was very hard.

I had no idea what they were saying in Italian as a child, they spoke too quickly on the radio. But I realized that language was very funny.

As I look back now, I really feel like God has called me not just to speak into the lives of believers but, even broader than that, to speak into the lives of people that are outside of the Church.

I've always wanted to play more comic parts.

I'm a rather crude cook.

I look ridiculous in a three-piece suit - I'm too fat.

If you do an American TV series, before the audition you sign away the next five years of your life.

My mum's parents were from Ireland, my dad's mum was American-Irish.

There were two second division matches last night, both in the second division.

I'm pretty positive that if I started singing songs that were for my fame, the God would probably make me tone deaf again. I know why He gave me that voice. I know why He gave me my ears.

The comfort of that lifestyle began to eat away at me like a cancer almost. It began to rob me of my joy and my faith. It kind of robbed me of my purpose.

The Bible says that God uses the foolish things and the base things of the world to accomplish His work. He apparently uses the tone deaf of the world to do something too.

No, I don't think 'The Wire' screwed up my career at all. It's the only reason people have heard of me. It's only been a huge, huge, very fortunate bonus.

The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language.

I went to America to get away from constantly being cast in costume dramas, playing posh people.

If I had a choice as to my perfect career, I would make a couple of films a year and then concentrate on natural history.