Quotes About Decision

I should have been a Trappist monk.

Us three brothers - me, Janis, and Martins - we made a bet. We all sat down and said we were going to grow our hair out. But after a month or two, they cut their hair. But I was too young to make the decision about whether I would get a haircut, so mine just kept growing. And it was so long that I decided I should start rocking those cornrows.

I went to Carnegie Mellon for a year and a month or two, and then I dropped out because I got a movie. I didn't anticipate ever leaving school - I was a really serious drama student - and then that happened, and my life sort of took a turn.

The India series wasn't the only reason I retired. It was the culmination of 18 months where things had probably changed in my life.

Hope is a moral choice.

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

I feel like such an idiot... you know, that our band didn't break up just so we can re-form and become more and more popular.

My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default.

At the beginning, it is all about fun. I had a lot of fun. But then, when I was 10 years old, more or less, I had a coach who said that I had a strange running style. I was about to leave... I had a decision to take: if I leave or if I stay, but as a goalkeeper.

The more lawyers there are, the more people are out there to encourage others not to go to law school.

More than anything, I just think about what roles I take on and make sure that it's really something that I feel passionate about if I'm going to leave home and go work.

Will I be sensible and pay off the mortgage? Not a chance.

If you've got a mortgage, and you've got bills to pay, you might tend to do some stupid things.

If I had to think where I could live if not Moscow, London would be my first choice and second would be New York.

My experience is that if the military didn't want to use force and was confronted with a president that did, the military would come back with what I would call the 'bomb Moscow' scenario. They would say it had to be done with conditions that were so extreme, you obviously wouldn't do it.

The Miracle of Istanbul was the most amazing game I'd ever seen - and long before the end I'd decided Liverpool would be my team.

When you explore a scene, the most important thing is who to cast.

The most important thing - and I've said it a hundred times and I'll say it a hundred times - if you marry a man, marry the right one.

That's the most important thing in football: you need to take chances when you get them.

I never considered going into motion pictures.

I'm in the very fortunate position as a young actor to not have to take the first job that comes along. I'm not motivated by money at this stage in my life, I'm motivated by work.

I do remember feeling, 'I don't ever want to feel impotent in terms of what I can control in a business in which you can have very little control.' And that motivated me to go to law school - that, and my parents saying, 'Go to law school before you do anything.'

Every action that we take has some motivation of either being selfish or altruistic. All that adds up.

It's a big deal to reveal your friend's deepest truth, your friend's deepest secret. And for all of us, when we do these big things, there's a complexity of motivation that comes behind that decision.