Eric Thomas Quotes
Character is like my fingerprint; it identifies me from everyone else in the world. It says who I am and where I am headed.
Quotes to Explore
-
I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.
-
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
-
It is my hope that I will be able to work with legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle and Gov. Hickenlooper to find a solution to fix our ailing pension system.
-
I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.
-
We have a great country, we are a great nation - let us trust in it.
-
I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'
-
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
-
If the sun comes up, I have a chance.
-
Many years ago... many, many years ago, I brought up a boy, and I said to him, 'Son, if you ever become a writer, try to write a good part for your old man sometime.' Well, by cracky, that's what he did!
-
I do respond well to a director, a teacher - someone who doesn't accept mediocrity.
-
I think from an actor's point of view, you always want something to play that's dramatic or something that feels like it could be very bold in choice. And of course, the boldest possible choice you could play at the end of a character's life is death.
-
I know the government needs to ensure economic growth... we just hope it takes care of the environment, too.
-
I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.
-
The days of the Pentagon Papers debates seem long past, when a sudden transparency yielded insight into fights over war and peace and freedom and security; the transparency afforded by Twitter and Facebook yields insights that extend no further than a lawmaker's boundless narcissism and a culture's pitiless prurience.
-
Marriage is a wonderful thing.
-
When I planned to ski Everest, the first thing I faced was, 'How can I return alive?' All the preparation and training was based on this question. But the more I prepared, I knew the chance of survival was very slim. Nobody in the world had done this before, so I told myself that I must face death. Otherwise, I am not eligible.
-
Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God.
-
The more we desire for that which is superfluous, the more we meet with difficulties; our strength and possessions are spent in unnecessary things, and are wanting when required for that which is necessary.
-
It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to dry and put my worn and weathered felt hat on the rack above the bench and ordered a cafe au lait. The waiter brought it and I took out a notebook from the pocket of the coat and a pencil and started to write.
-
I like to stay within the context of the character's background. If he's a cop, I have to make sure the audience is convinced that this person, a cop, can do only so much without a gun.
-
I am sure, Though you can guess what temperance should be, You know not what it is.
-
I try not to date musicians. It's all I've dated. Every guy I've dated is a musician. Obviously, it's not working.
-
...people today are so accustomed to pretentious nonsense that they see nothing amiss in reading without understanding, and many of them at length discover that they can without difficulty write in like manner themselves and win applause for it. And so it perpetuates itself.
-
Character is like my fingerprint; it identifies me from everyone else in the world. It says who I am and where I am headed.
