Mythology Quotes

There is nothing new, from Greek mythology to Shakespeare to every romcom ever made, we're just reimagining the same 12 story plots over and over again - so what makes people keep watching and listening? It's all about the character.

I walk the streets, take the train, it's real simple. Some actors create their own mythology: 'Oh, I'm so famous I can't go places, because I created this mythology that I'm so famous I can't go places.'

Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science.

I didn't study Greek mythology in school and I wish I had.

The thing about playing gods, whether you're playing Thor and Loki or Greco Roman gods or Indian gods or characters in any mythology, the reason that gods were invented was because they were basically larger versions of ourselves.

In families there is always the mythology. My father died when my kids were quite young still, and yet they still tell his stories. That is how a person lives on.

Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.

I love all of mythology and rules pertaining to all of the monsters, but I like to go the extra step.

Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.

Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

Even befor doing this film, I've always been interested in mythology.

If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation.

But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

We see the game as art as much as sport. That helped us nurture not only the game's traditions but to develop its mythology: America's Team, The Catch, The Frozen Tundra.

Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends.

That religious earnestness forever tends toward fright and hence towards brittleness and inquisition is clear enough in mythology and history.

In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.

I have loved football as an almost mythic game since I was in the fourth grade. To me, the game wasn't even grounded in reality. The uniform turned you into a warrior. Being on a team, the mythology of physical combat, the struggle against the elements, the narrative of the game.

I think airports are places of huge human drama. The more I see of it, the more I am convinced that Heathrow is a secret city, with its own history, folklore and mythology. But what has surprised me is the love the people who work there feel for the place. Everyone seems to think they are plugged into something majestic.

Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.

I'm fascinated by almost any mythology that I can get my hands on.