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"When I work on a film, you know, I try to get or inhabit the body of the character -from the vision of the directors or how i think the character should be - so if it's a film like SPEED, you hit the gym, you get to do some, train with SWAT People, hehe, but in general, I'm really focused and dedicated, and then in regular life, I don't go to the gym as often."
"But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives."
"Forgive me for stating the obvious, but the world is made up of all kinds of people."
"Rulers, Statesmen, Nations, are wont to be emphatically commended to the teaching which experience offers in history. But what experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it. Each period is involved in such peculiar circumstances, exhibits a condition of things so strictly idiosyncratic, that its conduct must be regulated by considerations connected with itself, and itself alone."
"Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people."
"Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name."
"Some people resemble ballads which are only sung for a certain time."
"Some weak people are so sensible of their weakness as to be able to make a good use of it."
"The clemency of Princes is often but policy to win the affections of the people."
"Plenty of people want to be pious, but no one yearns to be humble."
"The questions I would have liked to ask people were: ‘Are you in love? What are you reading?"
"Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money."
"Socialists don't like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose Socialism."
"Young people ought not to be idle, it is very bad for them."
"We are not prepared to consider special category status for certain groups of people serving sentences for crime. Crime is crime is crime, it is not political"
"I'm not a good butcher but I've had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look."
"People who wear glasses, without them they always look unfocused, vulnerable. Out in the open. A layer removed."
"I don't want to put the world to rights... I just don't like people who put the world to wrongs."
"I don't think anyone likes anything of mine. At the end of the day, I love it, but just because I love it... I happen to love broccoli, not a lot of people like broccoli. I always question if somebody else is going to love my films."
"But if we get to the point where more people do not believe in a God than who do believe in God, we will have a hollow legal system - we will have something without heart."
