Into Quotes

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.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

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.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords.

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.

But I believe in fair trade, and I will tell you, I have many, many friends heading up corporations, and people that do just business in China, they say it's virtually impossible. It's very, very hard to come into China. And yet, we welcome them with open arms.

One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.

I went into a clothing store, and the lady asked me what size I was. I said, 'Actual'. I'm not to scale.

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

I feel close to Lloyd in 'Say Anything'. He was like a super-interesting version of me. Only I'm not as good as him. Whatever part of me is romantic and optimistic, I reached into that to play Lloyd.

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.

Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

My love for the theater has always been a priority. That hasn't changed. I got into acting that way. The film work that came up was really a surprise.

It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.