Quotes About Belief

I was brought up the Mexican way, where actors are paid very little and every part you take is an act of faith. If people respect that, then great.

Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.

The anointing, which is God's power, comes on me... I can actually feel it. And people start getting healed. From the cancer, the pain is gone.

I don't believe in heaven, and I don't believe in hell as a place with flames where people are burning and having eternal pain. I don't believe in that at all. I believe in a place I call 'beyond.'

Just having conversations with God, begging God to make the pain go away, and then the pain wouldn't go away. So I'm like 'Who the hell am I talking to? God is not responding.'

Because one of the benefits of getting older, I guess-there are very few benefits, really - most of them are a pain in the butt. People depend on me more; they believe in me more, they think I'm good.

We religious controllers control in the name of Jesus and it is really painful to people.

Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.

My only objective is to paint a Christ so moving that those who see him will be converted.

As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do.

I really believe that if you practice enough you could paint the 'Mona Lisa' with a two-inch brush.

I am an optimist. I believe the future is bright. I think people who see life painted in dark colors are the ones who do not take ownership.

The reality is if you tell people something long enough, good or bad, they're going to believe it. And for a while the picture painted was that I wasn't exactly a favorable character.

I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you aren't going to make a living doing that.' I liked looking in art books at the work of painters.

That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.

I think it's absurd to believe that movies should look like paintings and say something like serious books say something.

No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.

I remember going home one day and telling my brother that I was going to give up football because I was 17 and was too old. My brother said he wouldn't let me. He got me my first pair of real boots and those were the boots I managed to become professional in.

I believe the land of Palestine will be returned to owners of the land with the help of God.

My ideology is not connected to the Palestinians.

There are many Palestinians, to be diplomatic, who believe there is no way to recognize Israel as a Jewish state, first of all, and there are a lot of people that believe there is no way to recognize Israel at all.

I don't usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this 'hopey changey stuff,' she was right: there was nothing there.

When I had my first panic attack, I believed that it was a heart attack.

I'd get kicked out of buildings all day long, people would rip up my business card in my face. It's a humbling business to be in. But I knew I could sell and I knew I wanted to sell something I had created. I cut the feet out of those pantyhose and I knew I was on to something. This was it.