Francis Bacon Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
-
People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
-
I don't get hung up a lot on angst.
-
If you're not careful as an actor, you can find yourself, at a certain point, a little bit bored.
-
The fact that we walked away from the Middle East, as distasteful as it was for us to stay involved and prevent wars, based on our long involvement there, we have helped to create and provide a foundation. Obviously for ISIS and also for the absolute barbarianism and human catastrophe that Assad impacted on his people.
-
I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.
-
There's nothing fun about 30 people standing around watching you, like, pretend to pleasure someone. Nothing enjoyable about it, believe me.
-
When you cease to dream you cease to live.
-
To me, a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions. No offense, but what makes them dictate what is cool and what is not.
-
I just love the hours of the theatre, I love the way it operates. I always say that when you're doing a play it's like getting a shot of B12, and when you do television for a long series you need a shot of B12.
-
Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there, even on my team. It's really cool: you'll see so many different things.
-
That's all TV acting is. Like, let me find my mark and seem like I'm still acting. Sometimes they'll put sandbags there, but then it's even funnier because you're walking and you're, like, stepping into sandbags, so now you look like you're having a seizure.
-
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
-
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
-
Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else's ideas of who you can or can't become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a 'Keep Out' sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.
-
My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.
-
No matter how many times you say Social Security is broke, the reality is that Social Security's independent revenue stream and its Trust Fund's investments maintain the program's solvency until 2037, when it may begin to fall short.
-
It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
-
The basic idea of karma is not punishment. Karma presents the opportunity for development; to make use of opportunities that were not taken advantage of, to fill in gaps of ignorance, to enlarge understanding through experience, to do what should be done.
-
I love America the way I love my family - I was born into it. And there's no escape out of it.
-
Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
-
I'm thrilled to be partnered up with SeaWorld.
-
The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.
