Quotes from Simon Baker

L.A.'s a better place to live than it is to visit.

As a kid I was always a bit of a clown, a performer.

I'm a big fan of Alan J. Pakula's films like 'All the President's Men', 'The Parallax View,' and 'Klute.' I'm a big fan of those movies.

I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great. I think that is a good thing and that people need to stand up, voice their opinions, and be heard.

I didn't grow up with money, but I grew up with a lot of space. All I did was surf. I was committed to the ocean. That's one thing about Australians; we have the capacity to embrace life.

I like putting my money into things like food and shelter. I'm probably a bad example of an investor.

Well, capitalism is going to grow and grow. The nature of it is that the guy who has the most poker chips on the table has more leverage than everyone else. He can eventually outbluff everyone else and outraise everyone else at the table. That's what has happened and it needs to be corrected.

I don't like the idea of talking down to kids. I think I was talked down to, and you rebel against that.

I think my kids are pretty well-rounded citizens of the world.

I am very straight-forward and direct. If I disagree with something, I say something about it.

A shot is only as every as good as how well it tells the story.

I don't like fancy fiddly girlie stuff.

French are what they are without excusing themselves to be.

Sometimes the intensity and the grind of doing television can wear you down, but at the same time there's something about the repetition, the sheer mass of work that you do that's also liberating.

If you can't be proud of what you do, go and sell shoes. Do something else.

Indeed, in exiling Arius and his followers the treatment of 'heretics' had been taken out of the hands of bishops and become subject to the criminal law pronounced by the emperor.55 Religious and imperial power had become one. In

Pyrrhus invaded Italy at the start of the campaigning season in 280 BC. In two brutal and bloody battles he successfully defeated the Romans. The Greek king, though, having seen so many of his soldiers slaughtered in achieving this success, was said to have remarked, 'With another victory like this, we will be finished!' (Hence our modern phrase 'pyrrhic victory'.)

The Roman people paid great attention to the rightness of their wars in the building of the empire. 'When the inception of war seems just,' ran the logic, 'it makes victory greater and ill success less perilous, while if it is thought to be dishonourable and wrong, it has the opposite effect'.

gradual and diplomatic path to asserting Rome's supremacy.

My kids think I'm old and over the hill.

I'm pretty good at gardening. It consumes my time, and it feels like I'm doing something constructive.

I cut my own hair most of the time. You just do it all by feel.

I like putting my money into things like food and shelter. I'm probably a bad example of an investor.

I'm pretty good at gardening. It consumes my time, and it feels like I'm doing something constructive.