Quotes About Choice

I do think about how different my life might have been had my mother not died so young, but I try not to delve into it too deeply, as it's like 'Sliding Doors,' isn't it? You just don't know.

When anti-choice men talk about abortion, you get the feeling they really have no idea what they're talking about - they haven't done even the slightest bit of research about how hard the choice really is and how painful the experience really is.

I don't see the point of belonging to a party on the increasingly dubious assumption that it's slightly less bad than the opposition.

'A Death in the Gunj' is slightly off-beat in part, not financially lucrative as one would want. But that is a conscious choice that I have made.

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.

At every future election, there should be a slot, at the top of each ballot paper, in which we can put a cross against 'None of the below.'

I made a choice before I lost my legs that I was going to live the best life possible and that I wasn't going to let this slow me down - and that choice has kept me moving forward.

I think we are slowly killing liberty, creativity, intelligent thinking; it's as if we are being led into a world that is like a huge shopping centre, with a sort of anaesthesia about everything except the choice of goods in front of us.

The directors are selective in their choice of actors and sometimes, those choices smack of arrogance.

If you choose to work at a larger company over a smaller company, you are more likely to be higher paid.

American actresses have more problems than I do; I'm lucky to be able to play what I want for a smaller audience, because I have my own country to do that in.

Fundamentally, all art is about human beings. You're always showing larger moral questions through the smaller moral, philosophical, or political choices through one character in the book.

I'd be absolutely happy to go back and make a smaller picture. I never want my choices to be dictated by budget. That's one of the reasons why I take so much pride in being able to make films for $2 and a paper clip - because I can always get my hands on $2 and a paper clip. I never have to ask for permission for that.

It was always my intention to go with a smaller club. I reckoned I'd get more of a chance.

We assumed the customers were smart and that they'll buy what they like, not what the ads tell them to buy.

I've been pretty lucky - or slothful - in that I've never been a 'career builder.' I take the jobs that come along that feel right, and that's left me fairly open to all genres, really. But with 'Caprica,' the complex, dark and very smart script was the draw.

I can smell bacon sizzling or chicken roasting and appreciate the aroma, but I don't want to eat it.

I had a shampoo once where it was like, Okay, it's a great shampoo, but I hate the smell. I had to stop using it.

I collect all the reviews of the films I turned down. And when they're bad - I have to smile.

I don't smoke pot. I never liked it.

I like smoking! I mean, God, I quit everything else, can't I smoke?

When we go to a restaurant, they don't ask, 'Do you want the asbestos section or the non-asbestos section?' They do ask, 'Do you want smoking or nonsmoking?'

I was opposed to the government mandating that restaurants not allow people to smoke, believing it becomes the customer's choice whether they go in or not. But then, I thought, 'What about the employees? Aren't they hostage to a smoking environment, even if they don't smoke?'

Once we decided not to get pregnant, I snapped back into work mode, and now I have just been really enjoying my career.