And Quotes

I don't think there is any difference between fantasy and reality in the way these should be approached in a film. Of course if you live that way you are clinically insane.

I love to snuggle up on the sofa wrapped in my duvet watching old black and white films, and catching up with friends and family on the phone.

I think you have to be careful not to do too much as yourself. Otherwise you stop getting the acting roles, and at the end of the day that's what I love.

From the time I could play the piano, I remember trying to write tunes. They were in my head, and I would just sit down and start noodling. Next thing I knew, I had written a melody.

Constant criticism can wear one down and weaken knees.

God has given each of us one or more special talents....It is up to each of us to search for and build upon the gifts which God has given.

I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I want to try it again and again, and a lot of times my fellow musicians have to hold me back and say, "Nah, I think we got it."

Life is such a very troublesome matter, when all is said and done, that it's as well even to take its blessings quietly.

Frankly, you're always up and down. You're successful and then you're not.

Strange that theory and practice so seldom should accord.

I would rather be a fairly happy wife and mother.

Idealism and realism meet in the actual.

I am free when I am functioning here in time and space as the creative will. ... freedom by our definition is obedience to the law of one's nature.

When I'm painting them, the whole legend and mythology of apples occurs to me, and so Adam and Eve and the snake and all the rest of it somehow gets into the picture.

I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other.

He leaned down and whispered to me: No matter how thin you get, no matter how short you cut your hair, it's still going to be you underneath. And he let go of my arm and walked back down the hall.

The beginning, middle, and end are parodied, reversed, and hidden by modernism, but not abandoned.

Ladies and gentlemen are supposed to be looked after by others, like children and pets.

The aphorism wants to be at the same time both main line and off beat.

Was there a little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?

All history and art are against us, but we still expect happiness in love.

Progress stems from education, culture, freedom and equality. Without these fundamentals, mankind will flounder.

I'm doing a little freelance work, and I think everybody's trying to take their minds off rock and roll for a little while and get some perspective.

I'm becoming far more interested in just functionality and making sure my body is as strong as it can be so I can swing my kids around and not worry about aches and pains.

Anxiety and hostility seem to be a great part of good and bad humor. Examining humor too closely does seem to destroy it.

I think I feel vulnerable most of the time. I feel on guard. I've gotten pretty good at putting my fists down and kind of allowing the world to be, so that I don't feel threatened as much.

I think the fun thing about this franchise [Planet of Apes], as storytellers, is that a lot of the franchises are very black and white. This is all about the gray areas; it's really about the nature.

The challenge and love, for me, of acting is if you get to transform or do something you haven't done before. That's fun.

I like working in all different mediums so I'm truly lucky to be able to flip back and forth.

Since the end of the Cold War, America has been grasping left and right for an identity.

Politics is about a lot more than winning and losing. I think politics at its best is about compromise, shades of grey and about issues.

Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!

Maybe the honorable thing for our species to do is deny our programming, stop reproducing, walk hand in hand into extinction, one last midnight, brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal.

I'm a pretty loyal guy with friends and family, I've had the same friends for a long time.

I've been on a show before where I was on a billboard and then, after like three or four weeks, they took the billboard down and replaced it with nothing. Took my face down and put a white board up.

There was a moment when the Berlin Wall came down and some people felt, "Oh capitalism won. That's the ideology we can believe in now."

I do find it sometimes that people project their own feelings on to the characters and I think that there is a certain amount of sexism - I mean the proprietary nature, for men and women.

God gives me hope that there is something greater than us, something better and bigger than the here and now, that can help us live.

Good and evil are not like the Redskins and the Cowboys.

The Catholic Church with its foreshortened American history and tangled puritanical roots was as inviolate to my mother and father as it was to the last-ditch aristocrats of Evelyn Waugh.

Keep calm and carry on. Also, stay in and hide because the Ripper is coming.

Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.

Cause and effect are never divided between two people.

There are certain weights in life you simply cannot carry. Your Lord is asking you to set them down and trust Him. What do you say we take God up on His offer?

Jesus isn't a God who stayed on the mountaintop - he's a Savior who came down and lived and worked with the people.

The Bible is full of stories of men and women who've found themselves in frightening situations but who chose to look up rather than look down - look up in faith - and God got them through it.

Creativity has got to be the warp and woof, the heart and soul, of our sermons.

Your present negative beliefs were formed by thought PLUS feelings. Generate enough emotion, or deep feeling and your new thoughts and ideas will cancel them out.

I am not ready to die, / But I am learning to trust death / As I have trusted life.

It feels a long way up and down from zero.