Man Quotes
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It's properly scary playing a leading man. Growing up, I always wanted to be a character actor.
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If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.
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The Railway Man was a particularly intense and immersive experience. I definitely got carried away. I lost about 35 pounds. I really was incredibly skinny and also quite unwell while we were filming. It wasn't very healthy. I don't recommend it. But then also doing the torture scenes, the water boarding stuff, there wasn't really any other way just to do it really.
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If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
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Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.
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Man is not above nature, but in nature.
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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I just tried to create a life for myself that's full of fun and fantasy and things that equal laughter. My life's been cartoons and comedy and acting, and it's just been a fun life, man.
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As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
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Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
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A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.
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I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could.
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I believe that the only people who really, truly benefit from any of the policies of Republicans are the wealthy. I'm in that 1 percent tax bracket, but I'm not a man of wealth.
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Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably reject your observation. Why? Because most people go through life as cunning actors with a permanent horror of getting found out.
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I think Douglas was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real science that he could make science fiction work as well as it did. And just such fun to have around, he was just such a lovely man.
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
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The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.
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For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.
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I wish I didn't have to perform 'Iron Man' every night.
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There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
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I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one of these vices is odious in itself, as because each of them separately and all of them together are utterly abhorrent in men making profession of a life dedicated to God.
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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
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I had a very brilliant father who was not only intellectual, but was street-smart and very curious to boot. The day I found out that he didn't know everything, I grew up. It was a shock. I just thought that the man was the end-all of everything, and he knew the answer to everything. Then I found out I'd have to find out my own answers.
