Quotes About Decision

His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.

You have to take whatever situation is thrown at you and make the best decision at the time.

I was thrown in the deep end at 18 when I got cast in a movie that I didn't audition for. The director just sort of found me and put me in a film, so the decision was really made for me.

How does an artist know when the line that he just painted is good or not good? That's the catch. De Kooning was the greatest of my contemporaries in art, and he knew when he'd done a good line. When he didn't, he threw it away. I wish I'd thrown away some of mine.

While 'A Blessed Child' might have been a more tough-minded book had Ullmann thrown a spanner into the works, it's not hard to understand her decision to keep things going.

Throwaways are OK. When a quarterback throws the ball away in our system, that's a plus. That's a plus decision. That's the way I've always graded it.

I used to be cagey about my love life. I was cagey for four years. Az and I only decided to come out because we were pregnant. Otherwise, we would have kept it quiet. It really was a case of staying private. I am not one of those people who frivolously throws their private life out there.

Once the referee throws the ball in the air, it's either your ball or their ball and you have to just take your shot.

Sometimes life throws you a shortcut. You either take it, or you continue the way you were going.

There are some throws I should not make.

Some throws we're just trying to make in practice to see if it's something we want to move with on during the season.

I'd done about 10 movies before I decided I wanted to make acting the main thrust of my career.

Usually when you do a pilot, there's a moment where all of the executives get together and say thumbs up or down.

I was just twiddling my thumbs in London, literally not knowing what I was going to do with my life, and my agent says, 'You got an audition for 'My Fair Lady' with Bartlett Sher.'

They're either going to fire you or they're not. They can only fire you. That's all they can do. They can't take your thumbs.

Both of my children - my daughter Caroline, a public school teacher, and my son Elliot, an Army Ranger - are dedicating their lives to public service; thus, they have inspired my own decision to run for Congress.

As I am a film personality, I feel it would be best to be an independent candidate. Thus if I decide to contest it won't be under the symbol of any political party.

I did not want to be a source of diversion from the Mondale-Ferraro ticket. It appears no matter what I did or tried to do, that would not be the case. I came to the conclusion that it was in the best interest of all to stand aside.

I'm saying there is no way that I will do this, because it's really not me. I know my strengths, and governor Romney needs to find someone who wants to run with him. There are many people who will do it very, very well, and I'll support the ticket.

I understand it all. I can write my own ticket for one or two movies. But if they're not the right ones, my ticket gets yanked. I understand that's how it works, and I'm okay with it.

When you're the presidential nominee you get to pick whomever you choose to be on the ticket, and that person gets to say yes or no because, obviously, it's a very important decision.

If Bill Weld were at the top of the ticket, it would be very easy for me to vote for Bill Weld for president.

I don't like country music, so I won't buy a ticket. That doesn't mean I should be outside protesting.

There's a clock ticking on the pregnancy thing, but not a clock ticking on adoption.