Quotes About Conviction

My job isn't to win popularity contests.

I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.

Once you actually book the role, you see that people have faith in your ability to portray the character.

As actors, I really feel that unless you don't believe in the part, you won't be able to portray it on screen.

I think there will be times where I need to be more serious, and I'll show that. I'll show an intensity that I think a lot of people can't really show or portray.

I feel it's very important for an actor to believe in the character that he/she is playing and do full justice to it in order to convince others that you are the character you are portraying.

When you're portraying someone, whether they're real or fictional, you have to find some kind of hook where it feels real to you because if you don't believe it yourself, then no one else is going to believe it.

My outspoken positions haven't always been popular in the halls of Congress, but they have been rooted in what I believed was right and necessary.

I'm not going to hide my positions to make anyone else feel comfortable.

Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

I am a little too absorbed by science to be able to philosophise much; but the more I look into myself, the more I find myself possessed by the conviction that it is only the science of Christ running through all things, that is to say true mystical science, that really matters. I let myself get caught up in the game when I geologise.

I was an activist long before I even entertained the possibility of being an actor.

I believe in possibility, but I'm not sure I believe in demons.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

Good political leadership for me involves getting the big decisions right - however difficult, however controversial, however potentially divisive - and then being able to take people with you.

I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.

The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything.

There are few things more powerful than a life lived with passionate clarity.

I'm more the conscience of the conservative than I am someone looking for consensus.

Conservatives are always right about everything. We are. We are.

I consider myself a good communicator and a good salesman.

I don't think comedy really does change people's minds; I think you can only get someone who is almost ready to change their mind. You can't change someone from one direction straight into the other, but if you get someone who is considering your view, and you make a good point, there's power in that.

What I try to do is tell my constituents that this is what I believe and this is why I made that vote. And I think that that makes more sense to people generally than trying to triangulate some political position.