Quotes About Decision-making

It is not for the State Department or even the Secretary of State to say when and how the resources of the American people will be spent.

It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.

Understanding government can be a complex business. The stated reason for a policy and the real reason for it are rarely the same.

The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.

I would never bring in a player to make a statement.

Time and again, when member states and the governments are faced with an insoluble problem, and they're under pressure to do something, that something usually ends up being referred to the U.N.

He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.

Statistics rarely drive me. Feelings, intuition, and gut instinct do.

I've never been difficult to anybody or with anybody on a picture. Especially when you're in that nice status of hierarchy of actors and actresses who get to approve directors. Because once you make that choice, it's my belief that the director's boss.

Boarding school was a really pivotal moment. Before I went there, I was so happy. I'm not sure I was ready for it. I was only 13. My parents didn't send me away; it was my choice as well. But I definitely shouldn't have stayed for five years.

I've definitely been in that situation many times - staying in a relationship longer than I should. I think there's so much of your identity that comes from a relationship.

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don't want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you're not performing at your best.

At the end of the day, you have to do what's best for you, and I support any guy who stays home.

There used to be times when I used to be bothered about box office, director, producer, the actress... If those ticks were marked, I used to say 'yes' to a film. Later on, my focus absolutely changed. Now if a character stays with me for two to three nights, I say 'yes' to the film.

I don't want to get on base and just run for the sake of running. What good is it if you steal 100 bases and get caught 60 times?

A big company is like trying to steer a luxury liner.

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

You gotta go with your gut. It will never steer you wrong.

The responsible choice? Steer clear of business with Iran.

I encourage active skepticism - when people are being skeptical because they're trying to identify the best course of action. They're trying to identify the next step for themselves or other people.

Anytime I stepped out on the red carpet in anything pink, I don't know what I was thinking.

I see myself stepping more heavily into the producing world. I like having that control, and being in control so to speak, and being part of picking great material and bringing it to life.

As a coach, they would love to sit there and say, 'It's going to be five steps, you're going to hitch up into a perfect pocket, you're going to look at number one - no; you're going to go to number two - no.' It doesn't work that way.

If you're falling in love with several people, it's really important to not just continue coasting in the relationships and start taking big steps towards permanence, especially before you're going to meet someone's family.