Quotes About Choice

Part of the philosophy of 'The Dice Man' is that you have got to be laughing at yourself at every moment and be free of yourself at every moment.

When a guy comes unofficially, then he, to me, is sending you a message that, 'You know what? Hey, I'm interested in Clemson.' Now, he may hate it when he gets here. But at least he came on his own. That's just my personal philosophy.

The purpose of a moral philosophy is not to look delightfully strange and counterintuitive or to provide employment to bioethicists. The purpose is to guide our choices toward life, health, beauty, happiness, fun, laughter, challenge, and learning.

I'm going to put on my gravestone, 'He never owned a cell phone.'

I've never owned a cell phone and don't plan on ever having one. If anyone needs to talk to me, they know where I live.

As an actor, you're like, 'Yeah, I want that phone call from Peter Jackson saying, 'You're my first choice for Thorin Oakenshield.'

Should kids check phones at dinner? I don't know. To me, that's a parenting choice.

Everything I choose to photograph, I think is beautiful.

A photographer must choose a palette as painters choose theirs.

I like to choose the people I take photographs of, but when you make your living off it, you've got to take everybody.

I chose photography over writing. I had to make a living.

I feel empowered the fact that I can look the way that I do on stage and in photos - I can look that way any time I want. And I feel like it's important message to other women that they can do it, too.

I'm kind of selective of the people that I take photos of. Like, I don't take pictures of just my friends, but I do like taking pictures of just some of my close mates, especially out in L.A.

Do you often find yourself uttering the phrase, 'I feel like I should go?' You do not need to go. You are busy that night. You are busy every night, forever.

I've always said, 'I am a selector, I am not defector' - the first few phrases in English I learned. I said I hate 'defector'; something defective about the people. It's a bad word.

I don't want to feel shamed into making a choice about my physical appearance or my body... or even about the choices I make about my life. I want to be feel empowered and inspired because they feel good to me.

In abortion, the person who is massacred, physically and morally, is the woman.

I don't necessarily want my physician making all my decisions.

The thing is, I'm not really a great pianist at all. But if God said I could either sing or play piano, and which would it be? I would definitely choose the piano.

I was never encouraged to do it and I played the accordion, which I hated. I wish I had taken piano because I definitely would have written more songs of my own, but I didn't.

When I was nine, my father said 'You can take piano lessons or do karate' - I had a black belt and was competing before I was 19.

It's not how you pick your nose, it's where you put that booger that counts.

I've been fortunate. I don't pick scripts. Scripts pick me.

You have to pick the stories that you want to be involved with and the end game is you'd like to be a part of a hit. But I think your moral obligation is to follow your own heart.