Quotes About Conflict

I was really conflicted. I had always planned to help the world. Instead, I was going to become an actress? That seemed like such a selfish thing to do.

Once youve got a name, whatever you do is news. If your marriage breaks up of course its big news but even if you have a row with the planners it makes the nationals.

For 'Inhuman,' it's a 'chess game' series. You have a lot of pieces moving different ways at once, and it's about what they do on their own and what happens when they collide into one another. It's about long-range planning, new character creation, and trying to really build things.

The war is not planned. I don't believe that any responsible person plans it. But it's thought as possible.

Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?

It looked like a pagan banner planted on a Christian rampart.

I love cheese plates. Though I actually hate cheese plates. Because I can't say no to them.

People ask me about 'The Hurt Locker' a lot, and it's an incredible piece of filmmaking - as are 'Band of Brothers' and 'Platoon' and 'Full Metal Jacket' and 'Apocalypse Now.' But they're not necessarily true to war in a literal sense. What they are, really, are brilliant movies about Hollywood's idea of war.

The greatest honor of my life was to lead these men in my platoon, even though it was a war that I and they disagreed with.

My mom wanted me to play baseball. She didn't want me to play basketball.

I don't care if you're my brother - if we go play football, I'm gonna try to crack your head open. It doesn't mean that I don't love you. It doesn't mean that I don't respect you.

It's true I was approached for 'Heroine' but I couldn't do the film as the dates were clashing with Kamaleswar Mukherjee's film 'Meghe Dhaka Tara' based on the life of Ritwik Ghatak, where I played the lead.

I don't think music should be played anywhere near politics. The two don't go together.

When I look at my body of work, I've played a lot of characters who are morally conflicted - 'I'm right, no I'm wrong, I don't know what to do!' I want to play more characters who don't care as much, and who aren't as measured. They are what they are, no apologies.

I was brought up in the north of England, which is probably no rougher than anywhere else, but I remember as a child being kind of mesmerized by girls fighting on the playground.

If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.

You don't want a character who sits on an even playing field the whole time.

Look, not everybody plays well with each other on the playground. I get that, that's politics.

The part that I think is one of the most interesting is of course the one that Hayden Christensen plays.

It is impossible to please all the world.

If you aren't please tell me how you are going to not have a war.

Dealing with political things, it's not for me. It makes me crazy. I want to buy, you want to sell. Please make it simple.

I'm a bit too much of a people pleaser and that can be frustrating for people in your life.

I think inherently, a little bit, I'm a bit of a pleaser, and I want people to like me and be nice, and to not ruffle feathers and just make everybody happy and stuff. It's a personality flaw.