Quotes About Choice

My process of choosing scripts remains the same. Of whatever I read and whatever excites me is what I will continue to take up.

I guess if they ever do a remake of 'Sophie's Choice,' I could play the Meryl Streep part. I've got to work on my Polish accent. Maybe I'll be the definitive King Lear one day. You know, if they ever feel that King Lear should be more Jewy.

But I think I'm always going to be remembered for being the daft guy who had a chance at Rangers and never took it.

I like to remind myself that every morning I'm making a choice to live.

I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will.

We have a choice every day to do whatever we do, and that choice is quite scary because it could absolutely change everything about our lives. It's important to keep reminding myself that I have a choice.

Which reminds me of a fortune cookie: you often find your destiny on the path you take to avoid it.

Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved.

Render yourself free to choose, to be, to live, to see.

It is not enough to render things equal to the will, that they are equal or alike in themselves.

As a kid, I loved the idea of alternate possibilities, roads not taken, that sort of thing - and I think seeing the 'Adventure Time' universe rendered by the artists in those stories will scratch that same itch really well.

First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.

If I owned Marseilles and Hell, I'd rent out Marseilles and live in Hell.

I think the thing about New York City real estate is that you kind of just take what you can get when you're renting.

I have friends that are reps and run labels, but I don't like to get into that world. I just like to pick what I like with my ears and play it for no other reason, not because of the label or the rep.

The best contraceptive is the word no - repeated frequently.

There are things that I would avoid, so I have the choice to say no, when I feel I'm repeating myself too much. But then there could be a reason to do that with a good director. So I think actors have to have a loose philosophy.

Whatever the reasons that I turn things down, I'm always happy when there's a good result, and I can enjoy it as a movie, you know? I don't feel like, 'Oh man, that was really good. I should have done it.' You have to make the decisions you have to make, whether it has to do with your family or repeating a character or whatever it is.

To those who call me a mercenary I say that I also had interest from abroad, where I would have earned more. I have chosen Milan because, in my head, there is the idea of repeating the course I had at Juventus, where we had started rebuilding, as in this case, and we came to the top.

You are born with a voice. And in a way, you don't choose what you want to sing. It's the quality of your voice that matches a certain repertoire, and that's what you're going to sing.

Let's replace Obamacare with reforms that put you back in charge of your own healthcare.

If you explain to a patient what can be done and what might be the downsides, let the patient choose; don't have ethicists, priests, or doctors say you may or may not have replacement cells.

I went through much deliberation on choosing my next TV role after 'Reply 1988.'

Abortion opponents say women seek abortions in haste and confusion. Pro-choicers reply: Abortion is the most difficult, agonizing decision a woman ever makes.