Quotes About Choices

There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.

I'm not exactly in a position where I get to be super-picky about the roles I get. But I would also never want to be a part of something that I think is poor in taste or doesn't align with what I believe in.

I was brought up that when things don't work out, you go to your alternative.

The dictum of the industry is such that I can't only do films that appeal to me.

People are always arguing: New York or L.A.? They're both great places, you know.

I know straight away if there are roles I don't want to do, and I have a lot of arguments with my agents about those.

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

Anyway, you get the idea. Bad people tend to make bad choices. You can't put it all on them, though. There's always good ol' circumstances. Things happen. Other things don't. Then one day, you find yourself painted into a corner. Surrounded by a fresh coat of bad choices. Sure, a lot of the job is chasing down criminals and putting them behind bars. But there's also finding the people stuck in those corners and trying to help them make the right choice.

There's no pleasure on earth that's worth sacrificing for the sake of an extra five years in the geriatric ward of the Sunset Old People's Home, Weston-Super-Mare.

There are moments in our lives when we summon the courage to make choices that go against reason, against common sense and the wise counsel of people we trust. But we lean forward nonetheless because, despite all risks and rational argument, we believe that the path we are choosing is the right and best thing to do. We refuse to be bystanders, even if we do not know exactly where our actions will lead.

Life is a sum of all your choices

Failing to use our life opportunities wisely and lovingly is a rejection of God.

Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done.

People choose the paths that grant them the greatest rewards for the least amount of effort. That's the law of nature, and you defied it.

I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.

The collective wisdom in Pakistan seems to be that nothing in Pakistan's predicament is the result of wrong policy choices made by its leaders and that the only thing Pakistanis need to do is to fend off discussion of the negatives, rather than attend to the negatives themselves.

All our lives are symbols. Everything we do is part of a pattern we have at least some say in. The strong make their own patterns and influence other people's, the weak have their courses mapped out for them. The weak and the unlucky, and the stupid.

Tell me, how is it that Courtney Hall can have all her life mapped out for her from beginning to end for the maximum personal happiness and satisfaction and still be neither happy nor satisfied?

She could never look at surfers without a painful sense of another life she could have lived.

That was the problem with having money: you ended up with decisions to make. And if you bought anything, where would you put it? He'd need either ditch something, or to start on another carrier bag. That was the problem, being Frank.

If you are penniless you will have a thousand dreams. Get even a single piece of money, however, and you will have only twenty options.

Ciertamente puedes teñir tu pelo, pero ¿qué le puedes hacer a tu rostro?

Si siempre intentas hacer lo que QUIERES, a menudo estarás sacrificando lo que PUEDES hacer.

If people begin to use the full power of conscience in all the choices they make in their everyday life, from presidential elections to purchasing things in the grocery store, the world will change.