Scott Adkins Quotes

You've got to be a certain type of person to be a professional fighter. I prefer to do it for pretend.

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• The march of the human mind is slow.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Mind
  • March
  • Slow

• When someone saves your life and gives you life, there's gratitude, humility; there's a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn't deserve.

  

  Pat Summerall
  • Life
  • Time
  • Blessed

• The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Always

• Apartheid either is or is not. And it must not be.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Must
  • Either
  • Apartheid

• That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Movie
  • Never
  • Finish

• I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • Life
  • Up
  • Boy

• Could've sworn I heard you say Amen this morning, showing some kind of sign that you believe. Did it fall from your tongue without warning? Or just another trick to fall from your sleeve?

  

  Ben Harper
  • Believe
  • Fall
  • Morning

• I suppose I could have sat back and pitied myself. For a time I wondered if I'd ever be able to go on to a stage and perform again. After a couple of weeks I began to feel I could fight my way back to health if I put my mind to it. I thought to myself: 'Pity never did anybody any good. Go on. Patsy, show 'em what you can do'

  

  Patsy Cline
  • Time
  • Good
  • Mind

• Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Sin
  • Act

• When I first met my husband, I needed that helping hand to take the reins and look after me.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Hand
  • Husband
  • Helping

• Goodbyes are sad, no matter what the promise of tomorrow is.

  

  Janet Leigh
  • Sad
  • Matter
  • Promise

• We aren't consistent in our treatment of animals.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Animal
  • Treatment
  • Consistent

• It's probably not an accident that the films that I care about happen to be about issues that matter to me, stories that I want to tell. If you're going to spend two years of your life on something it has to matter to you, you have to be passionate about it.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • Film
  • Care

• As soon as we are born, if we could but get up, bath, dress, shave, breakfast once for all, if we could 'cut' these monotonous cycles of routine. If the sun rose it would stay up, or once we were alive we were immortal!

  

  Wilhelm Nero Pilate Barbellion
  • Up
  • Sun
  • Cutting

• I am overcome by a feeling of complete detachment. I am a mere object to these people. I am barely human any more.

  

  Tabitha Suzuma
  • People
  • Feeling

• It is shocking. We haven't had a performance like this before. We've always found a way to move the ball and score points, and today we just couldn't do anything. I wish I had a reason why. We've had bad games before where the next week you come in and work on something and hopefully get better, but this performance is one we'll have to think about for the next several months.

  

  Eli Manning
  • Work
  • Why
  • Bad

• If nobody makes you do it, it counts as fun.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Fun
  • Nobody
  • Counts

• [Marriage] was the one thing I didn't want to fail at.

  

  Gwen Stefani No Doubt
  • Marriage
  • Fail
  • One Thing

• I'm more interested in knowing my cues than my lines. If you know what your cues are, then you know what your reaction is going to be to them. Acting is about reacting, and if I can kind of purely react, that's easier for me.

  

  Stephen Root
  • Acting
  • Lines
  • Cues

• By Liberty I understand the Power which every Man has over his own Actions, and his Right to enjoy the Fruits of his Labour, Art, and Industry, as far as by it he hurts not the Society, or any Members of it, by taking from any Member, or by hindering him from enjoying what he himself enjoys. The Fruits of a Man's honest Industry are the just Rewards of it, ascertained to him by natural and eternal Equity, as is his Title to use them in the Manner which he thinks fit: And thus, with the above Limitations, every Man is sole Lord and Arbitrer of his own private Actions and Property.

  

  Cato the Younger
  • Art
  • Action
  • Hurt

• We make interesting companies and real businesses. It's not social networks for cats.

  

  Harper Reed
  • Companies
  • Businesses
  • Social Networks

• You've got to be a certain type of person to be a professional fighter. I prefer to do it for pretend.

  

  Scott Adkins
  • Certain
  • Fighter
  • Pretend