Quotes About Choice

I always thought I would move to New York after graduation, but, instead, I moved to Los Angeles. I realized I was more scared of that choice than I was of New York, and I thought, at 22, I should get it over with.

I did what I did. I went against the grain. And I understand that I would be criticized. Those were all choices.

Each man ought to be granted the dignity and respect to decide his own destiny.

Money grants you freedom, I guess.

If you look at my career graph, I have always chosen roles that are performance-oriented.

In a graphic novel, you have to allow for a certain amount of freedom on the reader's part to experience it how they choose.

I have been lucky that good people have chosen me to be a part of their films, and I am really grateful.

I'm not going to focus on the bad days. I choose to live in gratitude.

I have only white or black; I don't want the gray. Everything or nothing.

I want to retire how I want to retire - and I have a great opportunity to do that.

The great thing about money is that people can use it to buy things they need instead of things self-appointed experts think they need.

I'd rather do a part because I want to, not because great things are expected of me.

I wanted to become an engineer, or get a masters in business. But I had the opportunity to do films when I was about 25 and it was a great way to express myself.

Actually being able to exercise your own choice can bring about greater opportunity.

People always choose self-preservation over the greater good, most of the time, with the belief that self-preservation is the greater good.

The greatest luxury is being free.

The 'Lone Star' experience was tough at the time, but it really allowed me to look at things from a 3,000-foot high view. You can think something is the greatest thing in the world, but, as we know, anything can happen. It really taught me that I always want to make choices that I believe in artistically. No one can take that away from you.

We can either build on the greatness of America or we can fade off into history.

Any time the character is in a moral quandary is interesting. That's been true from the Greeks on down.

Women who make the choice to have grey hair - I think that's beautiful.

I feel like I'm the only person - or woman, at least - who hasn't read 'Fifty Shades of Grey.'

I don't like Grey Poupon - I like French's.

Roshan Sherchan is a grey character and that's the challenge. He's not all bad. Even though people will hate him, they'll still wonder why he did what he did. I enjoyed playing this character a lot because he will make the audience choose between things.

As the son of a feminist mother, I grew up with the idea that work was a sort of salvation for women as it would give them freedom from the domestic grind. Now it seems work is a form of slavery, undertaken out of apparent compulsion rather than choice.