Quotes About Choices

Balancing my film career and my music will be something I'm just going to have to deal with, as it happens. I think I can balance it out; the choices will probably be pretty clear. If there's a movie I just have to do, I will work the music around it.

As an actor, there's always that fear. You don't know where the next job's coming from, so you say, 'I'll do that, I'll do that, I'll do that'. Your choices are not always clearly thought out, and you can end up taking mis-steps.

When I was young, I was clever enough to know that if I got married or had children, I would be eaten.

If I hadn't gone towards boxing, I might have been one of those kids getting into trouble. A lot of my friends did. They were clever kids at school, but they just went down the wrong path.

I'm afraid the 'Doctor Who' door is probably closed because of me being in 'Torchwood.'

You don't have to put on everything in the closet.

I've got a closet full of tuxes, and I appreciate that, because one thing I don't like to do is shop.

I know what I like; if you go to my closet, I have at least four of everything.

When I go shopping, I try to specify certain things for certain events, but most of the time, I have so much stuff to pull from at home in the closet.

The idea of taking off my shoes and trying on all these clothes is so exhausting, I just leave.

I'd rather buy clothes than buy a bed.

I'm quite sure there are other things that I could have done in life whether it's working for Humana, teaching in college, high school teacher. Coaching stuck.

You don't need coffee. Nobody needs coffee. You can get along without it.

I don't even drink coffee.

I stay away from caffeine. I've never even tried coffee.

I'll read, like, ten scripts, and then sometimes if I'm lucky, there will be two or three scripts that I like, and sometimes they'll all be dramas, or they'll all be comedies, or there will be two dramas and a comedy, and then I'll go for whatever. If I have to audition, I'll audition. If it's an offer, great.

I'm not a fan of early commitments. I just think people right now are handcuffing players, pressuring players and I don't want to do that.

Many of our choices have led to the predicaments we are presently complaining about.

It's very complicated because I cannot wear the same thing too often.

I went to a comprehensive school and didn't go to university.

The way we always want to compromise between everything, I think that's really Belgian. I think I'm really Belgian for that, because I never make choices. That's my problem, actually.

What leads us astray is confusing more choices with more control. Because it is not clear that the more choices you have the more in control you feel. We have more choices than we've ever had before.

Having done 'M. Butterfly,' I'm conscious of the choices women make with their clothes and makeup on screen.

I am conscious of making choices that balance the performance and commercial aspects. It's easy to get stereotyped in this industry.