Into Quotes

Sometimes when you're heavy into the shooting or editing of a picture, you get to the point where you don't know if you could ever do it again.

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.

I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world it is best to hold hands and stick together.

We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.

I've auditioned for roles that involved voice, but I don't like it. I feel like, I can't do this in front of you. It seems so separate - I don't share it with a lot of people. And I'm not into public performances.

Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.

To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.

I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.

It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

There's a rhythm to the legislative session and there are rhythms to legislative sessions. So I think that's very important to take into consideration when you are deciding what to do when.

I envy the people who say, 'oh, well, I've got my name in the golden book and I'm going to be entered into the pearly gates.'

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.

If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.

Acting can be pretty challenging. I can't say making a romantic comedy is challenging, but to do anything well, you have to put yourself into it.

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

In California, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into TV shows.

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

You have to read scripts and audition and develop relationships. It takes a long time to develop a body of work but over the last 25 years I guess I've done that many movies. In hindsight it may seem effortless, but there's a lot of work that goes into it.

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.

I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

I like predictability because I know what I'm getting into.