Leo Tolstoy Quotes

We are a strong democratic country.

I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first martial arts film. It has a very strong female character and it was very abundant in classic Chinese textures.

I try to keep my head on straight and take nothing for granted.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

We meet a lot of people, we drink lots of stuff and have lots of fun.

I try to look at design from a more conceptual standpoint.

I think nothing has been filmed as much as World War II.

France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?

My legacy doesn't matter. It isn't important that I be remembered. It's important that when I stand before the Lord, he says, 'Well done, good and faithful servant.' I want to finish strong.

While people are quick to praise the wisdom of the crowd, being an old-school journalist, I look at the wisdom of the crowd and know it can quickly turn into a mob mentality.

Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites.

Al-Qa'ida is the antithesis of the peace, tolerance and humanity that is at the heart of Islam.

No, I love it at Chelsea. I've been here since I was 14, and I'm 28 now. All my friends are here, so I'm going to stay for ever unless Chelsea tell me I've got to go, which maybe one day they will, but for now I'm definitely staying.

P.C. is just too Big Brother - telling me how I should act and feel.

I was saying as a joke the other day that I love film editing, I know how to cut a picture, I think I know how to shoot it, but I don't know how to light it. And I realize it's because I didn't grow up with light. I grew up in tenements.

I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!

Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.

I've wanted to adopt since I was eight, nine years old. I really do think I will.