Quotes on Ifs

My TV show had been cancelled; nothing else had gone anywhere; some alliances I had made petered out and nothing came of them and I was looking at a long, long year ahead of me in which there was no work on the horizon, the phone wasn't ringing. I had two kids, one of them a brand-new baby, and I didn't know if I would be able to keep my house.

Even if a story has nothing to do with my life, if I can recognise something of myself in the character and think, 'Oh yeah, that's what I'd do...' yeah, that's what I look for.

By and large, the making of motion pictures is all about, 'Let's ratchet it up.' And I always think, 'We don't need to ratchet this up.' If you do, don't call it 'Captain Phillips' or 'The Maersk Alabama.' Call it something else, and then you have carte blanche to do anything, down to sea serpents and aliens.

As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into existence the natural world... which doesn't seem to me to be necessarily blasphemous at all.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we'll also have a lot more joy in living.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

Dealing with global warming doesn't mean we have all got to suddenly stop breathing. Dealing with global warming means that we have to stop waste, and if you travel for no reason whatsoever, that is a waste.

If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.

If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

There is just as much evil in all of us as there is good. We're all continuously guilty, even if we're not doing it intentionally to be evil. Here we are sitting in luxury hotels, living it up on the the backs of others in the third world. We all have a guilty conscience, but we do very little about it.

Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.

If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love, then love will wholeheartedly respond to you.

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.

Everyone's dream can come true if you just stick to it and work hard.

If anything, you know, I think losing makes me even more motivated.

I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you.