B.J. Penn Quotes

To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.

Direct confrontation, direct conversation is real respect. And it's amazing how many people get that.

For the most part, any serious magic show is not using very much technology newer than theatrical lights.

What you put into it is what you're going to get out of it. If you're getting the chance to step into the octagon, you better be going full speed and give it everything you've got.

Criminals have means motive and opportunity – Heros do too

The kind of women I'm interested in - they're smart enough.

I'm not saying that I've cheated, being in an intense love with somebody while also feeling the pulls of being a young man, especially being an object of attention.

For a while I didn't believe in marriage. But I think I do believe in having a love. I'm not saying only one love ever, but in having a good, solid relationship. I think that's possible.

Luck is statistics taken personally.

The end never justifies the means because there is no end; there are only means.

Freedom means the right to be stupid.

America was founded on Christians not trusting each other, and they sometimes seemed more willing to reach out to the godless than to someone from another sect.

The vast majority of the world knows there's no reason to circumcise. Someone should tell the doctors.

Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

I love the idea that horror and fear is a celebration of health and life.

There is no reason for the government to limit political speech.

Penn & Teller don't know jack about global warming.

I love nuts. I'm for nuts. I am nuts.

To be an American is not...a matter of blood; it is a matter of an idea--and history is the image of that idea.

A symbol serves to combine heart and intellect.

If you are an idealist, it does not matter what you do or what goes on around you because it isn't real anyway.

There is no country but the heart.

That summer we had been absolutely alone, together, even when people were around, the only inhabitants of the kind of floating island or magic carpet which being in love is.

We are the prisoners of history. Or are we?

I get a little scared of words like maturity.

On a movie, it's always better to stay invisible as much as you can to keep things calm. I like to whisper to my cameraman, I like to whisper to my actors, and whoever else I've gotten to whisper to.

It's pretty much rock-'n'-roll. I sit down and start feeling stuff and writing.

The one thing you can count on in Hollywood - across the board - is cowardice.

I don't see life as an opportunity to see how far you can go in the pursuit of pain, although I think I've challenged it a bit.

When I was growing up and somebody like Robert De Niro had a movie come out, it was a cultural event. Because he had such a confidence and a single mission that was so intimate.

That was madness. You're never going to bring one of those down with a handgun.

I think if you want good things to happen for a country like Haiti, then you need to provide the circumstances where the Haitians can do that.

I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies.

The greatest fear in my life was getting happy. I'm not so afraid of that anymore.

Bukowski said, "I know I'm good, so I like that people think I'm bad, because it gives me a dimension, effortlessly."

I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that.

If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game.

Fulfilling what you start is why you start something.

Let men be good, and the Government cannot be bad.

No people can be truly happy... if abridged of the freedom of their consciences

The Remedy often proves worse than the Disease.

The unspoken word never defeats one. What one does not say does not have to be explained.

Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man.

Government seems to me to be a part of religion itself - a thing sacred in its institutions and ends.

Five things are requisite to a good officer — ability, clean hands, despatch, patience, and impartiality.

If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not tell them to him.

The best luck always happens to people who don't need it.

The highest ideals are human intelligence, creativity and love. Respect these above all.

A joke is a way to say, 'I'm going to do something funny now. If I don't get a laugh at the end, I'm a failure.'

I'm always fascinated by the use of the first-person plural talking about sports.