Famous Quotes

Quotes by Christo

• I always like to watch comics and it's interesting that you can tell if someone's funny in 10 seconds.
• I believe that stress is a factor in any bad health.
• I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.
• I did not think that I was angry, but clearly anger was reflected in my writing. I did not think that I had been affected emotionally, but it was clear from my writing that I was still very emotional about the trial some six months after it ended.
• I didn't have a teacher like Sister Mary Ignatius.
• I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.
• I don't particularly enjoy watching films in 3D because I think that a well-shot and well-projected film has a very three-dimensional quality to it, so I'm somewhat sceptical of the technology.
• I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing.
• I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.
• I don't think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again.
• I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.
• I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress.
• I get to meet fantastic people, and I get to go through so many emotions. For me, I have a craving for that. When I'm acting, I feel great. It's not to be famous.
• I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind and it didn't seem to matter.
• I had great faith in Irish actors, that they'd be hip to the whole theatre thing, and they are. I had no illusions of coming over here as some kind of big shot. It's been a learning experience for me too.
• I had no expectations about fatherhood, really, but it's definitely a journey I'm glad to be taking. Number one, it's a great learning experience. When my mother told me it's a 24/7 job, she wasn't kidding.
• I have been in movies that I thought I wasn't very good in.
• I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed.
• I have more awareness of other people and, I hope, more sensitivity to their needs. I also find that I'm more direct and outspoken.
• I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.
• I know exactly where I've come from, I know exactly who my mum and dad are.
• I like to go to work, and also, I don't have any kids. I don't have any hobbies. I don't like to travel. So going to work is kind of it.
• I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there's no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That's all crap.
• I love my children beyond all reason. They're my joy, even when they're wild with kid energy.
• I make movies that nobody will see. I've made movies that even I have never seen.
• I never know when I am being funny, and the other way too. I don't think you can think about that. I don't think you can try to be funny. Some people are just funny.
• I rarely see one of the 'summer blockbuster' movies. I'd like to see a stronger focus on smaller, smarter movies.
• I remember that. I was talking to him and I said how great it would be if actors had a tail because I have animals and a tail is so expressive. On a cat you can tell everything. You can tell if they're annoyed. You can tell whether they're scared.
• I therefore beg that you would indulge me with the liberty of declining the arduous trust.
• I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
• I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic... That to me was funny.
• I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it was also because I didn't have a lot of skills. There was nothing I wanted t be. I didn't want to be a doctor. I wanted to be in show business.
• I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again.
• I think that if I had grown up and had been in show business and the movies twenty five, thirty years earlier, I think I would have made a lot more musical movies.
• I think that some of our soldiers die in the battlefield and some come home to bad health and die prematurely, just by the nature of the kind of business they're in.
• I think that weddings have probably been crashed since the beginning of time. Cavemen crashed them. You go to meet girls. It makes sense.
• I think the fact that I was raised in show business, in New York City, in the '50s, that's affected my personality to the point that I'm a little different.
• I think the materialist conception of history is valid.
• I think theatre is by far the most rewarding experience for an actor. You get 4 weeks to rehearse your character and then at 7:30 pm you start acting and nobody stops you, acting with your entire soul.
• I think there's a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I've felt it.
• I thought that would be kind of cool, to make a bad guy look sympathetic.
• I took acting classes in college, and once I graduated, I decided to give acting a shot when I couldn't really think of anything else to do. It took me a couple of years to get an agent, and my first big break was The Fanelli Boys, which was a sitcom on NBC. Then I did a few television movies.
• I used to be prettier than I am, but I think I look better now. I was a pretty boy. Particularly in my early movies. I don't like looking at them so much. There's a sort of pretty thing about me.
• I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.
• I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine I was into sailing and all that sort of thing.