Quotes About Choice

The model of getting the consumer to come to you is old, and the new model is how can you get to the consumer on their terms, in ways they want to engage in. How people are choosing to interface with content is very different. You've got to marry different platforms.

A lot of people are afraid to use their platforms because they don't want to lose anything they have - and that's OK. We don't all have to be activists, but I choose to do it because, really, what's the worst that could happen?

Growing up the way I did, being an actor in Hollywood was definitely never a plausible career choice at all.

Genetics play a huge part in who we are. But we also have free will.

Everybody was pressuring me to play basketball, so I was like, 'OK, I'll do it.'

I don't have to play football.

The golf bag hurts my shoulder too much; I prefer to play football.

It doesn't really matter how much you've got saved up in your bank account. If someone offers you £10 million to play football for a year in a beautiful part of the world, who would turn that down?

Whatever player Arsene picks to play for Arsenal, I respect that and so should the fans.

I think when people ask me, 'Who's your favourite player?' it's hard for me to answer.

I can hardly decide what plays I should be in.

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

There is a great demand everywhere in the world for individual mobility. People like the fact they are not on somebody else's schedule. They can come and go as they please.

I would have to be able to come and go as I please. I could not sit in some office.

You can't please everybody. All you can do is please yourself.

My scope on what's good is if I like it. The first person I have to please is myself.

Most of what I wear, I select myself. You can't please everybody, and as long as I'm comfortable with what I wear, I think that's what's important.

America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.

My father was not really pleased when I told him of my choice to train as an actress, when he was with us in this dimension.

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.

As an actor, I feel, I should not choose a film just to help get great box office results but one that challenges me as an actor and gives me the pleasure of playing a certain role.

People - and I include myself - get fat because they choose pleasure over self-denial.

Plenty of the women who were single in the nineteenth century wrote about their desire to evade marriage. Marriage was scary in a lot of ways. It often involved having a lot of kids, losing your autonomy, being in service to a husband and children who were often born at an unremitting pace without the benefit of modern medicine.

I love a well-plotted story. But I'm just not that kind of writer, and it's not necessarily by choice. When I manipulate plot, I feel I lose authenticity.