Quotes About Conviction

Faith is what replaces doubt in my dictionary.

My faith has always been important to me. It defines who I am.

Bring the army of the faithful through.

You can't really fake confidence.

I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it.

It is better to be true to what you believe, though that be wrong, than to be false to what you believe, even if that belief is correct.

I am not as scared about people tearing this one up as I would have been in the past because of the basis in 'knowing' this one has. There are people out there that are hungry for this.

Sometimes I just rely on technique on stage, but it's not about technique. It's about how much you want to deliver the message to the audience. That's all.

During my teenage years, I rebelled and ate everything under the sun, but when I was 18 or 19, I became vegetarian-focused and got disgusted by meat.

As a teenager and a student, I totally cast away the Christian faith. I just believed it was stupid, and only stupid people could believe it. I actually became an anti-Christian, and very antagonistic.

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

I met Edward Teller. Everything he believed in and stood for was antithetical to what I believed in and stood for. I like running into that in life. I like extreme points of view, a level of commitment - and I certainly love mastery.

I am not arguing with you - I am telling you.

I was telling people like 'My Dawg' gon' be the song that get me out there. I knew it.

You have to say no to a lot of people and when a lot of people are telling you what you're doing is a bit rubbish you just have to have the courage to say 'no it isn't' and believe in it.

We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story.

Standing up for what you believe in and being honest, telling the truth are all very liberating things.

I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.

I grew up Catholic, and when you've grown up, and these belief systems have been presented to you at a young, impressionable age, I don't know that you can shake them. Even if your rational mind tells you something else, sometimes they're so deeply ingrained that they are with you for the rest of your life.

My ears sort of turn off when someone tells me that what my heart is saying isn't a good idea.

I think that people should do what their heart and soul tells them to do.

It's good to say, 'Look, I can't always be right, but my gut tells me this' - and then you confirm with your gut.

I lose film roles because I'm a person who doesn't keep quiet about certain things. But if my heart tells me something is wrong, I'm going to go and do something about it.

No one should be forced to violate one's conscience, nor should anyone be forced out of service of the common good because there are some things their conscience tells them they cannot do.