Quotes About Conviction

If I'm not convinced about my role then there's no fun in working on a project.

And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also work from a policy angle with Congress and state legislatures to prevent future wrongful convictions.

I think at the beginning of a project, you decide if you're in love with the idea and what it's about, or what you think it's about at that time at least. Then you commit to it, and once you've commit to it no matter what, no matter how many self doubts you have, you're in it. The ship's sailed, you can't turn around.

Unless I am convinced that it is a strong, prominent role with ample scope to perform, I don't accept it. I want the audience to recognize me for my acting talent.

Everything I do from now on, I'll have a mustache. I can promise you that. I don't care who I have to convince. If you see me with a mustache in a movie or on stage in the future, you'll know that I pitched the idea.

I definitely promise to always make films about issues that matter to me.

When you believe in something, it's easy to promote.

I'm a genuine person - I will never promote something I don't believe in.

There isn't any amount of money that could tempt me to promote something that I didn't believe in.

I don't really like to promote anything, but I will promote things I believe in and things that work.

One of the reasons why fundamentalists are so aggressive in trying to promote fundamentalism is because deep down they know it's arbitrary. If you're comfortable with your belief you don't need to convince other people to agree with you.

I can't promote makeup on Instagram if I don't believe in the product.

If an actor doesn't believe in the film, the actor doesn't promote the film.

I think it's a luxury when you love the thing you're promoting, and then you don't have to try to think of something, try and find some angle.

As long as you are promoting something that you really believe in - yes, it's incredible to see that designer earn the esteem they deserve - but there's something to be said about the fact that if you're convicted about an opinion, and you really believe something's great, you're not going to credit yourself for their success.

We need proof in our society.

There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so.

There is no such thing as absolute proof. There is only evidence.

I don't think I can live a life of compromise. If I did, I wouldn't be able to sleep properly.

We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.

We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposed to rob us of their companionship.

Protecting the sanctity of life is a matter of principle.

As a pastor in a Protestant church, my whole ministry centers on the conviction that by grace we are saved through faith. And it's not our faith that delivers us, as if believing something, anything at all were pleasing to God. It's the object of our faith - Christ's life, death, and resurrection - that saves us.

I've just always done what I've felt is best, according to what the Bible tells me. That's why I started protesting, and that's what I continue to do every day.