Quotes About Choices

I turned down a lot of things that were so-called commercial. You're coming out of one film, and then they want you to be in the same one.

I turned down some movies that were quite good. mainly on the basis of taste.

What fascinates me are the turning points where history could have been different.

After 'Resurrection,' I was getting calls for people to do work with me, and I was turning it down.

There are places you should be and places you shouldn't, and situations you should not be getting yourself into. If you're turning up to games and not feeling right, that's when you've got to address the situation.

In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history, where we confront the dangers of the future and assess the choices facing humankind.

Life takes turns. There are forks in the road.

My choices in projects have all been character or role-based, and on a financial level, it's obvious: as an actor on a TV series, I get a wonderful paycheck, and a consistent paycheck, which doesn't always happen when you're doing theater or movies.

There are so many choices I made simply for health insurance. Is it the ideal role I wanted to play, or the TV show I wanted to be a part of? No, but it let me afford to go to the doctor.

Eddie Murphy did '48 Hrs.' because that was the only movie offered to him. And he killed it. Bill Cosby did 'I Spy' because that was the TV show he was offered. But now, there are networks dedicated to comedy, and the Internet... it's so easy for comedians to not do things that aren't true to them.

I actually don't watch TV at all. If you asked me what my favorite TV show is, I couldn't tell you because I don't watch TV.

I think there's something really positive about getting to explore a character for a long time on a TV show and live with that character and live with the choices they make, but it's also really great to step in.

Change is not overcoming inertia as much as it is redirecting, guiding, tweaking what already is and what has already happened. We must believe that we can make choices and that those choices can alter the future.

I think it's natural as you get to the end of your twenties to start thinking about what you could have done differently - whether they went well or whether they went terribly.

If you put twenty parents in a room together, they will all have different parenting styles due to how they were raised and how they choose to raise their children. To each their own!

I get offered movies probably twice a month and they are just generally bad.

I mean, I've done different things at different times that I shouldn't have done, once or twice, you know.

Nobody knows how long they have left on Earth. There's no guarantees, and for me, when they tell you - not once, twice, three times - 'You've got a couple weeks to live,' or a couple months, you have to determine how you want to do that.

I'm a chicken and fish guy, but I throw a burger in once, maybe twice a week.

Kids definitely go into bookstores after reading 'Twilight' and want something else like it.

I watch very little television, actually. There's so many shows I want to watch and then I know I'll get hooked and I have to binge-watch the entire thing.

Everyone is born into a certain era. I wouldn't want to see anyone faced with the circumstances that prevailed at the time, when there were few or no alternatives.

As you get older, all those dumb clichés, they're all true. You only have a certain amount of time left, and you should only spend it doing the things that you want to do. It's all true.

I really think that Van Halen has two choices if they want to continue. And maybe they don't want to continue, because they don't seem to do much.