Those Quotes

Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.

Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

A nice pop star would do you nice on one of those deserted islands.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.

The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.

There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

Forgive those who have hurt you.

When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

I have those days where I'm PMSing and bloated.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.

We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.

Well, it's like my movie, 'The Apostle.' Some people in the North don't get that movie. They think that, in the South, if you don't shout, you can't play one of those guys.

Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.

But communication is two-sided - vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it... demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is being communicated.

LIfe has got all those twists and turns. You've got to hold on tight and off you go.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

I'm doing a new musical on Broadway, which opens in October called 'The Boy from Oz,' where I play Peter Allen. For those of you who don't know, he became first famous in America for marrying Liza Minelli.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.