Quotes About Limitation

I'd love to be in a real boxing match, but I can't because of my face. I'm an actor!

Nothing great can come of more than three people in a room. If you had 10 incredibly bright people, nothing would come out of it.

Especially in Britain, people want to limit you.

I remember telling the agent, 'I don't want to do anything but Broadway.' She was like, 'That's not really possible because there is not that much Broadway. So I'll send you out on TV and stuff like that.'

You never have to change a book for budget.

I can't change a light bulb.

The idea that success is limited is an easy one to believe. We buy into it, and often without even thinking. There aren't enough resources. Something for you means less for me. I understand it, too. It's the give and take of the human experience. If you have the apple, I can't then hold it at the same time... or can I?

That's the worst part about all of the injuries and the criticism. It would be one thing if I had been healthy for five years and just sucked when I was on the court. But I can't prove what I can do because I can't stay healthy. Not having control over the situation makes it tough.

The Italian word 'stanza' means 'a room', and a room is a good way to conceive of a stanza. A room, generally speaking, is sufficient for its own purposes, but it does not constitute a house. A stanza has the same sense of containment, without being complete or independent.

They put me in a whole body suit, from my neck to my ankles. It was so bad, I couldn't straighten my legs.

I do the best I can when I'm accepting the role to say, 'This is about as much as I can do, and if that's not suitable for you, then you should hire somebody else.'

it is obvious that most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the window, one narrow strip on which they keep walking back and forth.

Und der Künstler ist immer noch dieser: ein Tänzer, dessen Bewegung sich bricht an dem Zwang seiner Zelle. Was in seinen Schritten und dem beschrankten Schwung seiner Arme nicht Raum hat, kommt in der Ermattung von seinen Lippen, oder er muß die noch ungelebten Linien seines Leibes mit wunden Fingern in die Wände ritzen.

If we think of this existence of the individual as a larger or smaller room, it becomes clear that most people get to know only one corner of their room, a window seat, a strip of floor which they pace up and down. In that way they have a certain security.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

natural science is likely to be soon exhausted. Passing by many particulars of the discipline

The element running through entire nature, which we popularly call Fate, is known to us as limitation. Whatever limits us, we call Fate.

If God can do anything, then He surely can even allow evil and call it good. Why does He have to explain it? Surely, if omnipotence means all-powerful without even logical or rational limitation, He can allow evil to exist and not see any incoherence in it. And if God can do anything He pleases why can't He simply be incoherent as well? That may be irrational to the skeptic, but does not limitless power also mean the power to be irrational without justification?

Too much of anything isn't good for anyone.

nip most of them in the bud

Don't see so much, Chris, your mind is too big for your body.' I got a war on between a mind that wants things my body can't give it.

Catch-22 says they have the right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.

He felt imprisoned in an airplane. In an airplane there was absolutely no place in the world to go except to another part of the airplane.