Quotes About Belief

You know, my father used to look at people and he treated everyone with such respect, and he always believed that he would rather trust you face on and be disappointed perhaps down the road, be disappointed some of the time rather than never to trust someone, never to believe in someone, and alas, be disappointed all the time.

If you believe the disappointments - if you believe the disappointments in the last few years are a detour and not our destiny, then I'm asking for your vote.

The baseline character in a lot of Western literature is a man. So we, as women, do a lot of suspending of our disbelief to experience a novel or a play or a movie through that male character.

I truly believe the discipline I have honed as a dancer will bring me more opportunities as an actor.

Never, never listen to anybody that try to discourage you.

That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.

The British, I have discovered, assume that Americans are more religious than they are.

It's important for us to certainly cast some Christian actors who can speak to our audience when we market the films, but obviously we don't discriminate. So our crew and our cast, the beliefs don't really matter.

If you believe that discrimination exists, it will.

There are zillions of people who say that alcoholism is a disease, but not many of them believe it.

When you get told that you have a disease, it's like: 'Really? Nah, it's all right. I don't believe that. It must be something else, I'm just making an excuse, let me push harder.'

I am what is known as a benched Catholic and disillusioned by the church doctrine. I believe in things the Catholic Church does not believe in: divorce being one, and a women's right to choose being another.

I find most 'sacred music' pretty dismal.

You have to try to dismiss the loudness of cynicism. It's certainly going to come.

Mr. Disney believed everyone was still a child deep inside.

Pay disparity is not just in our country but elsewhere in the world, too. However, I do believe that there will come a time when it will change.

I'm going to keep correcting people, sometimes harshly, on the disparity between conservativism and Trumpism.

Pay disparity is something I don't like honestly. I feel it depends on say, if any actress and actor at the same level bring in same number of people into theatres, they should be paid equally. That's just what I believe in.

I don't dispute Scientology can help people; I think that is a very important fact to keep in mind.

No disrespect to Whittaker, I know I can beat him.

My first dissatisfaction has always been with religion.

The numbers I've shot, the percentages, they obviously are what they are and people are going to dissect everything but, I honestly feel like they're all going to go in when I shoot the ball.

You've got to stick up for what you believe in. If you don't do that, you're doing a disservice to the audience, because you're making something really diluted. And if you do that when you're a guy, you're seen as artistic - 'difficulty' is seen as a sign of genius. But it's not the same for women.

I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation.