Quotes About Decision

Tap dancing and basketball started at the same time, and when I was eight, I just kind of made the decision that entertainment was really where I wanted to be.

I just said, casually, 'You know, I passed up on auditioning for Einstein.' And my friend was like, 'You idiot, you have to do it!' She made me do it. I sent the tapes off assuming that somebody would say, 'Ha ha, very funny.'

As a manager, when you can't get your first target do you go and spend on your second, third, fourth choice?

Where I get involved is that I have to sign off the money, yet when you have target one, two or three from your process I feel fine going after the No 1 target and, if it's not to be him, then number two or three.

After 'Tarzan - The Wonder Car,' I didn't want to do any and every film.

The task of a judge is not to make the law - it is to apply the law.

That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions.

Because the task of a political leader is to do what he believes is better for his country. Sometimes the public opinion is in favor; sometimes the public opinion needs a little bit more time to understand things.

There is no evidence that an animal can take on the sophisticated task of deciding to end his life and to communicate that decision to us.

Deciding which ideas to save and which ideas to discard is one of society's most important tasks.

I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste.

'Do you spell it with a 'V' or a 'W'?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'.

We're born with the desire, but we don't really know how to choose. We don't know what our taste is, and we don't know what we are seeing.

Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.

Everybody was trying to put me in action movies and heroic roles, and I wanted to find more complex things. They just didn't suit my taste, so I thought, 'OK, I have to be brave enough to say no.' And for a while, that hurt me immeasurably in the Hollywood world.

There's a science to ordering potatoes. Are they skinny shoestring or big, fat steak fries? You just have to let your taste buds guide you when deciding what to eat.

I'm a great believer in the idea of not choosing based on our taste.

I moved to L.A. after my landlord in Brooklyn tripled my rent. I spent months looking for other places to move to in New York, then one day I was in California eating a grapefruit, and I was like, 'This is what they taste like?' So I decided to move to L.A. and build a studio in my house.

I've never, ever tasted beer.

I'll tell you what - it's not a choice until you're open enough to experience both male and female sexuality. Until you've tasted the food, you don't know whether you'll like it or not, as my mom always said.

But you don't get into a business because of personal tastes.

The words 'maybe' and 'perhaps' are literally the same - the flavor is the same, the educational level is the same. But you just know when to use maybe and when to use perhaps. I think it's because of this: You get to know the tastes or musical tastes of words themselves, and this informs your choice, whether you use them or not.

I don't sit under the tattoo gun unless I'm sold on it completely and it will define me as a person.

Getting a tattoo would probably make me cry.