Al Murray Quotes

There is no place for innocence on the battlefield.

It is the heart that has been pierced that feels the most.

What is courage without risk... It wouldn’t really be courage, would it?

The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day.

When we pray for the Spirit's help ... we will simply fall down at the Lord's feet in our weakness. There we will find the victory and power that comes from His love.

Religion is induced insanity.

I don't want to have a relationship with someone if I'm not going to work with them.

My fitness trainer's English, my physio's English, some of my friends are English. I don't have a problem with English people at all.

Thanks to the internet, I buy lots of music, but thanks to my easily distracted nature, I forget about half of it!

Through His Spirit, the Spirit of prayer, our life may be one of continual prayer. The Spirit of prayer will help you become an intercessor, asking great things of God for those around you.

It's hard because you want to be able to just, okay, focus your energy on trying to win the match, but you need to then have tactics as to how you're going to deal with how you're feeling.

I am not anti-English, and I never was.

Davis Cup, you know, does take a lot out of you over the weekend. It's tough, especially if you play all three days.

We are to be shut out from men, and shut in with God.

By not sharing our interests, talents and abilities, we limit our possibilities.

I don't have to take this abuse from you -- I have hundreds of people waiting in line to abuse me!

Those are my people, you know? The ones who are going to crash and burn.

That's the reason I'm not the one that's dead because the attraction of the fast life is very powerful.

We're born alone. We do need each other. It's lonely to really effectively live your life, and anyone you can get help from or give help to; that's part of your obligation.

I count on the kindness of strangers.

I'm just a potato that won't quit. I'm a potato with some legs. Some have eyes, I've got legs.

I feel like I'm a better person when I'm quieter.

We still have to put some cherry syrup on it, and then we can eat it

All parties are good.

Most people, when they talk fast, they get flat.

People say I'm difficult and sometimes that's a badge of honour.

The last thing I want is to be (in a film role) is obvious, direct and offensive.

It's a lot of work to read a crummy script.

I don't know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn't know how much money I was making.

Chicago actors are hard-nosed. They're tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They're self-demanding.

We talk about mental toughness all the time. That's the biggest thing good teams have, that they can overcome adversity.

I want to get to a point in my career where I can be a good role model.

Trust me, high school ends. You graduate and get away from all the people you never want to see again-it's all good.

I idolize my father. I mean, he has worked so hard in his life.

I was a hoodlum. I was a gang member, and art saved my life.

People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.

If I had known how much I hate auditioning, I doubt I would have become an actress.

What good is a smooth tongue without sharp teeth?

Hate engenders loneliness and despair

Books are like bound dreams waiting to be released

I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements.

I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.

Do you know anybody who's come back with a firsthand report on heaven? If you do, let me know. Until then, you'll pardon me if I don't buy it.

I don't care whether I succeed or whether I fail as long as I am trying. I hope that I succeed.

I think when people get stuck in situations that go against their soul, they can't be happy. That's all.

I regard Marxism as the most sinister and the most subtle form of totalitarianism.

I will never surrender the rights of the individual - the complete rights of the individual - to any "ism" whatever.

Whatever happens, happens.

If you know the wavefunction of the universe, why aren't you rich?

The persistence of erroneous beliefs exacerbates the widespread anachronistic failure to recognize the urgent problems that face humanity on this planet.