Quotes About Belief

I always believed I was a Premier League player, but in the first few months when I wasn't getting a game I started to doubt whether I was good enough. Everyone kept on telling me: 'Wait for your opportunity and make sure that you take it' - and that's what I did.

Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game.

I think if you accept the Left's premise of a living Constitution, then you accept the Left's premise of a living America, meaning that they think that America's history is rotten.

The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.

It's not hard to get people to take a premise and accept it.

Humans are animals of habit - they convince themselves they can't change. And that premise is wrong.

If you start with the premise that whatever you want to be is going to happen, it changes the way you think about it.

Ultimately, the core premise of 'American Gods' is, 'What do you believe?' And how your beliefs can be manifested into reality.

If a film promotes communal harmony, which for me is beyond religion, I am happy to work on it because the film's premise is in line with my beliefs.

A lot of people, especially Christians, want to put you in this box of being a Christian actor, and I don't believe in it. You do yourself and everyone else a big disservice when you start thinking about it as 'Christian art.' That's why most Christian art is bad. They don't put a premium on the 'art.'

Talent is to actors what luck is to card players. It's not really anything; it's just a fictitious word that people have created and labeled things. Talent is like, you know, I never really believed in talent, I believed in drive and determination and preparation, but talent is sort of like luck.

Everything in your preparation, in your mind is we're gonna win this game. You don't really even think of the other side.

Iran believes that before Imam Mahdi reappears, it must prepare a fertile ground for him and that it must control the Muslim world.

First, I prepare. Then I have faith.

There is something about acting that's mysterious and magical because there is only so much I can do to prepare, and then I have to just let go and breathe and believe that it will come through.

The day before I work, I don't like to even look at the script and let whatever happens happen on the set. But I do prepare a lot. I'm a big believer in that.

I find it incredibly romantic that people should fight for a cause they believe in and be prepared to die for it.

A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you're prepared to take the risk of trying them out.

My family was pious and Presbyterian mainly because my grandfather was pious and Presbyterian, but that was more of an inherited intuition than an actual fact.

Well, I'm a Christian. I was a born a Presbyterian and became an Episcopalian.

I was reared in the church, in the Presbyterian Church.

I'm Presbyterian and I don't go to church very much.

A child's sense of reality vs. fantasy can be a bit blurred at the preschool age.

Since my illness, I've felt the presence of my angels.