Quotes About Choice

I'm not really a horror movie fan.

I always choose my movie because of a director and a story and a, a character.

I don't feel very glowing, especially after wearing makeup - and not necessarily my choice of makeup - for 12 hours straight on a movie set. When I'm playing a character, her look is sometimes different from my own.

Movies don't make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.

The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.

Give me liberty or a bran muffin!

Give me liberty or give me a bran muffin!

I'm grateful for the fact that I can choose from multiple genres and characters.

If you look across the economy, if you have multiple players in an industry, you have more customization, more innovation, greater choice for consumers. The more you have consolidation, the less likely you are to invest in innovation. It becomes all about driving down cost and mass production. And that's not good for innovation in an industry.

My dad's Jewish and my mum is Christian, so I grew up with no religion. Just whatever religion I wanted.

I deliberately went to boarding school. It was my choice. My mum was abroad and I wanted to wean myself off being dependent. It was a very important time for me to be able to create my own individual, independent life; just as a way of growing up.

It wasn't through choice that I became a mum at 36. I wanted to be a young mum but things never worked out for me.

Being a mum is something that's never bothered me too much. I have never felt a strong need to have children, but I am not averse to it either.

When I was 13, I won a scholarship to boarding school. My parents let me choose whether to go, and I decided I wanted to. Afterwards, I went to Cambridge to study law - in a way, I was carrying the academic hopes of my family, as Mum and Dad left school at 14.

Mum and Dad were both happy for me to do what I wanted.

My mother used to call me everyday after moving to Mumbai and would tell me to take up this course or join some distance learning course and to please do my Masters, but, yeah... I didn't do it.

I find so often, you know, just on a very mundane level; you've got a meeting and your child's acting in a school play. You can't do both things. And it's not simply that you can't do both, but whatever you do, you're going to be neglecting something that's really important.

I could not have chosen a better path after leaving Bayern Munich.

I don't know why someone would go to Bayern Munich.

I went through my adolescence having this revelatory experience - I can have any music I want, and I can get it immediately. For me and for a lot of people I know, there's this musical eclecticism that happened.

There's no rule that you have to like Henry Rollins the musician or the actor.

You can be a Christian. You can be Jew. You can be a Muslim. You can be atheist. This is your own choice. But the law, the constitution, the law of the people is above God's law. So when somebody arrives in Europe, people need to accept those rules.

He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest.

My father and mother are Muslims. But from the moment I started talking, I decided I was a Christian. They let me.