Quotes About Options

As actors, we're like these vagabond artists: we have to be invited to perform, so if you don't have a choice of options, it's very hard to define yourself.

The gist of diplomacy is choosing what not to do.

It is a choice I've made, yet it is also a choice made with few other options available.

I gave you two choices as a test: there are never just two choices. That is a lie to keep you from thinking too deeply.

The American system is set up to have two parties competing for votes. But Americans have not had the same two parties to choose from since the beginning.

In general, I think that not voting is a perfectly honorable and civic-minded course in an election with two options that you consider unacceptable. I think casting a protest vote is a totally acceptable course. I have done both in my life.

The drug plans our seniors choose will define their health care options for years to come. If they do not make a decision and wait until the May 15 deadline passes, they will face penalties and higher prices for the drugs that they need.

I ended up signing for IndyCar and it was a good decision. I should have waited another 10 days to actually talk to all of the teams, because I just went in, boom, I got the first offer and I said OK I'm racing. It's almost like it was the girlfriend just gives you a no and then you just get the next one that gives you a yes.

Being an indie queen, people think I have all these choices. Like I've just been sitting around waiting for the best indie film that I deem acceptable.

I tend to be attracted to characters who are up against a wall with very few alternatives. And the film then becomes an examination of how they cope with very few options. And that's, I guess, what interests me in terms of human behavior.

We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.

It is never a problem to have good players on the bench.

I'm definitely not the person who's gonna sit anywhere and tell you that home birth is the only way to have a baby because I don't believe that. But I do think the only way to have a baby is where you feel great about your birth.

I don't necessarily have favorite brands.

I think breakfast is the one meal when you don't have to eat animal, maybe.

We have two day-parts, lunch and dinner. We don't have breakfast. We don't have drive-thru. We don't have late night. We don't have 24-hours.

Our job is not to predict the future. Rather, it's to suggest all the possible futures - so that society can make informed decisions about where we want to go.

You cannot choose beforehand what you want to use for a suit. You may want to change your mind a dozen times before you are through.

At Getty, I would have 20 different options for the same kind of event rather than focusing on the one image that will summarize the story.

Today there are more things you can wear for the same occasions. I still like this idea of the perfect suit, and I always love tailoring, but today you can have more things for this type of situation, clothes that have class and that are mixable, and that are super well cut.

Opinions are preferences amid options. Convictions are woven into one's conscience.

once you understand that you do not have to accept them, choices open up for you.

You do not have to stay in a bad situation. You get to make a choice, and that choice is 100% yours.

A glass of water, Mr. Wizard? Certainly. Still or sparkling? Ice or lukewarm? Lemon or lime? French or Italian? When Hamilton had added, Bathroom or kitchen?