Sometimes there is more exploration in the character for a villain.
We want young people to know what they believe, why they believe it. I believe America was built on the Judeo-Christian ethic; I want to see the nation return to the Judeo-Christian ethic.
A pastor has to be media-savvy if he's going to reach everybody. I don't mean to be ugly and harsh, but to be forthright and candid. And the result is that people that don't like you start listening.
As kids, our experiences shape our opinions of ourselves and the world around us, and that's who we become as adults.
For me, life is about experience and being a good person.
People who put themselves on the line and sacrifice their own safety for the greater good and for others, and anyone in any profession whose concern is the welfare for other people instead of the individual, are inspiring and important.
The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.
We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle.
There's no prerequisites to worthiness. You're born worthy, and I think that's a message a lot of women need to hear.
I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws.
I think I've lived long enough to understand that plans really are very overrated.
Taste and love are not the servants of the will. Love is and must be free. It rises from the heart like perfume from a flower.
A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others.
At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I've been in a generally good mood ever since.
Know where to find the sunrise and sunset times and note how the sky looks at those times, at least once.
Your internal dialogue has got to be different from what you say. And, you know, in film, hopefully that registers and speaks volumes. It's always the unspoken word and what's happening behind someone's eyes that makes it so rich.
I know that love is real when it's not convenient, when it's not selfish, when it's challenged, sometimes even if it's not reciprocated.
The only picture I have of my childhood is the picture of me in kindergarten. I have this expression on my face - it's not a smile, it's not a frown. I swear to you, that's the girl who wakes up in the morning and who looks around her house and her life saying, 'I cannot believe how God has blessed me.'
There is a quiet about the life of a farmer, and the hope of a serene old age, that no other business or profession can promise.
A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy.
Democracy is not static. It is a living force. Every new idea, every new invention offers opportunity for both good and evil.
What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
When all the routines and details and the human bores get on our nerves, we just yearn to go away from here to somewhere else. To go fishing is a sound, a valid, and an accepted reason for an escape. It requires no explanation.
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.
There is no employing class, no working class, no farming class. You may pigeonhole a man or woman as a farmer or a worker or a professional man or an employer or even a banker. But the son of the farmer will be a doctor or a worker or even a banker, and his daughter a teacher. The son of a worker will be an employer - or maybe president.
I was not a great guitarist, so I sold my 1960 Fender Stratocaster in exchange for a Shure Microphone, made in Chicago, and a flute.
I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.
I'm very motivated by the occasional creative payoff that comes when something goes really well, be it a song, a recording or performance. The payoff is enormous - when you get it. Most of the time, though, I'm filled with self-loathing and general frustration at the limitations I have as a musician.
I pray every day for my little girls. It's hard out there for the younger generation.
I think it's very hard in this day and age to raise little girls with morals, ethics and values, and them knowing that they are precious creations and that they are important.
The man who doesn't want anything is invincible.
Expectation is the mother of all frustration.
I'm a complete hypochondriac. If my heart starts beating a little faster than normal, I think I'm having an attack.
I make up my own mind in light of available facts, with my own experience and a sense of personal ethics.
If I have anything to say against Obama it's not because I'm a racist, it's because I don't like what he's doing as President and anybody should be able to feel that way, but what I find now is that if you say anything against him you're called a racist.
I work 90 hours a week. I work 5 to 9, it's not 9 to 5.
Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just go to exploring the complexities of the human soul. Everything is valid if it's done with honesty and dignity, and I actually do both of those types of movies in my career.
Everything changes as you get older - your mind, your body, the way you view the world.
The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.
A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.
It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.
