In The World Quotes
Growing up in the acting world, you have a lot of opportunities to change who you are and what you believe in based on how people treat you. I never wanted to do that.
Acting is one thing, but actually trying to change the world and the way people think to make people's lives better? That's the stuff I'm most proud of.
There are a lot of characters that you can get into that don't exist in the studio world.
My mom is the greatest mom in the whole wide world. She's done everything for me to make my dreams come true.
The girls I've dated hate me a little because I can't remember anything about first dates or when we kissed. I have the worst memory in the world!
Focus on someone else’s problems for a change, I instructed myself. You need the practice. From now on you’ll have to live in a world you didn’t make up. Horrible thought.
Creativity is what will separate the winners from the also-rans in the emerging world of business - and life.
I'm a happy, happy person. I laugh. I'm not angry. I'm only disgusted with a few people in the world that I have to see. But I'm not angry at all.
We all have those days when you feel like you're against the world, every little thing goes wrong and your blood pressure is up. And you feel like punching somebody!
It's so cool for me to do what I love to do for a living and meet people from all over the world.
I wake up every day in order to do something that's quixotic, and not necessarily called for in the world, but I do it because there's extraordinary meaning for me behind the effort.
We're no longer dealing in the world of the real in a truthful way. We're interacting with each other in shiny homepages. I don't think that makes for honest communication.
You may be whatever you resolve to be - determine to be something in the world and you will be something. " I cannot," never accomplished anything. "I will try" has worked wonders.
Men accept without questioning that this world is real and important and worthwhile. This is faith. Philosophy is the ongoing questioning of this faith.
God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and inspires these very longings, possesses the true world, and is that world.
So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas.
I leave the world in terrible turmoil. I come back, same turmoil. Nothing at all different. Well, outfits are a little different.
The comic world has its own limitations, as everything does. I adore it, I respect it, but it's not going to take over all of me.
It is by no means certain that we advance our philosophical quest by reading Plato or Aristotle. It may increase our knowledge of history but not of the world.
I wrote Sophies World in three months, but I was only writing and sleeping. I work for 14 hours a day when Im working on a book.
If it gets to the point where I actually physically cannot have a child, there's plenty of children in the world that need a stable home and loving parent. I'm so down for adoption.
If you're living with a scientist, you see the world differently than you do with a humanist. It's in some ways very subtle, the differences in perceiving reality.
It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.
One man's insanity is another man's genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in my insanity.
Imagine if you succeeded in making the world perfect for your children what a shock the rest of life would be for them.
Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity.
It's a great thing when a man knows how to dance, she said. When a man can dance, the world is his oyster." Adele, Henry's Mother
There are people in the world who aren't necessarily Christians, but they're just naturally nice people who do a lot for other people. Those people will almost always be prosperous people.
The truth is, anyone can start projects. The world is full of just-started projects that looked great at the time but were never completed.
Spiritual people don't float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.
There are few jobs in the world that are more fun than being the head of Urban Development for a great and thriving city.
The notion that you do not negotiate with terrorists is not the history of humanity or of the world.
The world we live in today is very, very diverse. It has extremism on one side, it has incredible liberal aspects to it on the other.
I think that nobody - certainly in this world - can say that they don't have the human denial element about them or fear or whatever it is as juxtaposed with faith and hope and freedom and love.
You go back and look at things like Civil War, World War II, Vietnam, a lot of people dying in state-sponsored arm conflict
One of the mistakes women have made is to romanticize life in the rose-covered cottage and then, discovering their error, proceed to romanticize life in the working world.
I get literally a physical sensation of low self-esteem that is a result of not engaging the world and getting comfortable that way.
When you make a movie, you just send it off into the world. You never actually live it with the crowd.
Most people in the world of comedy at least are multi-hyphenates, so people who direct are also writers.
I think my instinct creatively is to make things that are very funny and happy and silly. And in this moment where the world is very scary, I feel like my role is to make people laugh really hard.
I think it is important that we all try and be green where it is possible; an awareness of the world around us can never be a bad thing.
Behind the lens, I found refuge and freedom, distance and connection, an intoxicating way to tame the huge, chaotic world.
I used to be ashamed And now I am proud. The world once was black And now it is bright. I used to walk head bent And now I stand up tall. I used to have dreams But now I have hope.