Quotes About Choice

Each day brings opportunity for decisions for eternity.

Instead of becoming an engineer like my brother, I moved to New York to be an actor.

My parents, along with my brother and sister, are vegetarians.

I like rice, as long as they let me put my own stuff on it. You can bring me white rice or brown rice; just let me doctor it up.

The biggest thing is getting the kid in a kart - they have to buy it and that's the biggest thing. You can go to a sporting store and buy a basketball for 30 bucks or a football for 30 bucks. You go buy a go-kart and that's 300 bucks. What are you going to get? A basketball or a go-kart?

I'd love it to be in Buffalo. I love football. But I know how important it is to live your life like you want to.

When all of us are acknowledged as the human equals that we really are, there will be no space left for bullying. It will no longer be wrong to choose one thing over another.

What's going to happen when I die? I may be buried, or I may be cremated, I may give my body to science. I haven't decided yet.

I try to choose characters that are very different; I think I have succeeded in that. A big role or a small one does not bother me at all. What matters is that I should have a rapport with the director.

If I ever had to choose between having a good mind and good health with having big success, then there's no contest: I'd put my health first every time.

Albert Camus, a great humanist and existentialist voice, pointed out that to commit to a just cause with no hope of success is absurd. But then, he also noted that not committing to a just cause is equally absurd. But only one choice offers the possibility for dignity. And dignity matters. Dignity matters.

Success is freedom - scripts coming your way and getting to choose the stories you want to tell.

Success is self-defined. You can choose what you think success is, and you can always change your mind.

Since I've had some success, story and character are always the two elements I think about first in material presented to me. Some of my choices have been more successful than others.

I was a litigation lawyer. That's all very logical. Become a litigation lawyer. Become successful. Have a nice office. But there was some pull inside of me saying, self-publish this book. I followed that intuition and it's been a great choice for me in my life.

I don't have regret about things I've done that are successful or not successful or what people perceive or don't know or whatever. I just know for me it had to be the right choice at the time. Sometimes that choice is just about getting a job.

A music director cannot and should not be chosen on the basis of a first date. It is not so difficult to make a good impression with a single appearance, usually containing some of a conductor's party pieces, works they have performed successfully many times before.

Who my successor is will be up to the board, not me.

She's not happy about the life she is living but to jump through the hoop would mean to succumb to death.

If there is such a thing as freedom, then there is no fate.

I've been writing the same book my whole life - that you're in one family, and all of a sudden, you're in another family, and it's not your choice, and you can't get out.

From squalls, jibes, and other sudden calamities, I learned you don't always get to decide when you've got to make a decision.

After feminism, I suddenly realised: not everyone has to live the same way. Imagine that!

I didn't end her career. She chose to have children, then to make the simple choice that everyone should make really. You can't be a movie star and have children and not have one of the two suffer.