Quotes About Choices

I have only one life, so I want to make sure it's a good one.

From what might appear to you to be small choices, the Lord will lead you to the happiness you want. Through your choices He will be able to bless countless others.

The truth is, I just don't have that much time to see movies. So if I get two hours where I can actually see a film, I don't want to go backwards, I want to go forwards.

Everyone said that if you want to be a real actor, go to New York. If you want to sell out, go to L.A. And I thought, "I want to sell out!"

I started working at clubs when I was sixteen, which is young. I would not want my kid doing that, but I did, and that's how it went.

The government don't want to talk about the consequences of the choices they make. They pretend there aren't any consequences.

The truth is that you can spend your life any way you want, but you can spend it only once.

Now all of us in our thirties are the first generation that get to say, "I don't know how I feel about that system, I don't know if I want kids, I don't know if I want to get married."

I can't say, "I eat whatever I want when I want," but I have come up with some great treats for myself that are healthy and satisfying.

I think in this business [acting] there's the option to do a lot of things and say, "I don't care. I'm just going to do what I want," but what I do affects a lot of people.

I drink when I want and how much I want. Sometimes I get in really bad states, but it doesn't cause me or anyone else any problems.

There are so many things in this life that I want to do and I can't do them all.

Your parents tell you that you can do anything that you want, but then you turn 20, and they're like "I think you should be a doctor, instead of a musician."

I turn a lot of stuff down - big, big movies, the kind I wouldn't want to go to the cinema to see.

We all only have a certain amount of money and that means yes, we have to make choices and sometimes those choices mean we don't get what we want.

I don't think you play for other people's expectations, you know. You don't go and become a lawyer because your mother or father want you to, you don't become a coach because somebody wants you to.

I think that when a person is insecure about who they are or who they want to be, then it translates on screen, and the choices they make are all about perception.

But it's really hard to eat good when you're traveling because you see fast food and you want to go to this restaurant and that restaurant.

I was a single mom at 20. A lot of choices came out of that. I've seen a lot of my friends be in relationships they didn't want to be in because they couldn't leave.

There are two kinds of actors: those with one job too few, who have to take every one that comes along, and those with one job too many, who can always turn down the one they don't want.

I was trying to find a reason for having had to escape from the place that was my home. To convince myself of my choices, I had to make it a place that everyone should want to escape from.

Here are the choices I dont want to make: between paying additional fuel costs and flying and steaming less; between paying additional fuel costs and building fewer ships and planes.

Child, the good Lord got plans for all of us that we don't know-and he always got His reasons. He want us to learn and rejoice in the good that come from His design. God's plan ain't a free pass. Uh-uh. He give us moments to make choices, and we make them. We accountable for those choices. God's job ain't to make our lives easier, it's to make us better souls by the lessons he give us. I tell you now, I wouldn't change one choice I made since I met you. No matter what.

I skipped a class because his old college friends were in town. Then I was late for a rehearsal because he was getting an award. He had an open slot in his schedule, and we'd talked about taking a vacation together. I was about to turn down a concert when I finally woke up and realized I was losing myself.