Paul Ryan Quotes

People in all walks of life, and especially business, do not want to experience the collapse of cities like New York along with global finance and economy in chaos, but this is what business faces if we continue to attribute climate change to fossil fuels alone.

I take ballet class as often as possible - up to 5 times a week - and try to go to the gym on the days that I don't take class. I also do a floor barre/Pilates mat class almost everyday.

Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.

What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.

I never in a million years thought I would be the person to go to for self-esteem; that was not my intent. But I happen to love beauty, I love the way people look, and I love making women look beautiful.

Perhaps the most difficult thing is shooting scenes set 6,000 feet up in the mountains of Mexico.

The honest man might observe... that no one gets something for nothing; that politicians go in poor and go out rich; that the Government screws up everything it touches; and that the Will to Believe is best confined to the Religious Venue, as to practice it elsewhere is just too damned expensive.

I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.

Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you.

When you're young, no one cares who your parents are, although Mum would arrive to pick me up in her full hair and make-up and fur, and I used to say, 'Can't you just dress normally, like all the other mums?' I wanted her to blend in more, but I've always been really proud of Mum - as proud as she is of me.

When you are brought up as a frozen child, you go on freezing. It wasn't until I had my four sons, who have brought me immense joy, that I began to thaw. That I realised how utterly extraordinary my childhood was.

I am harder on myself than anyone else could be.

I'm an actor; I'm not a director.

The divine is not something high above us. It is in heaven, it is in earth, it is inside us.

Sometimes a time dictates what a film will be. Sometimes a film dictates what the time will be.

Being dead is being weak and walled off.

But you take a four-year state college, with a broader range of admission, and what happens during those four years may be an even greater value-added educational experience. I don't know.

I took a break after 'Confessions.' I was real picky. And then I suddenly realized I hadn't worked in a year. And I was sort of, like, not really happy. I think people are happier when they have structure, you know? You realize that as you get older. You have to have rituals and structure.

I'm an actress. It's my passion. It's - I've always lived for acting.

I don't go in search of ideas; I try to let them find me.