C.E. Murphy Quotes

Loving someone is taking a constant risk with your emotions. When you find the right person,the one you know you want to be with, that person becomes worth the risk.

Only by zealously guarding the rights of the most humble, the most unorthodox, and the most despised among us can freedom flourish and endure in our land.

one of the advantages of cycling is that it automatically prevents a journey from becoming an Expedition.

There's a lot of comedy in Intermission but it's got this depth. It's not comedy for comedy's sake - it's informed by something else. I like stuff like that

I think any actor that says 'I never watch my films' is a liar because you have to watch it at least once and also you're going to watch it when you're doing your ADR.

I'd probably have been wealthier if I had stayed with law, but pretty miserable doing it.

I'm not interested in a good man's life. I'm interested in contradiction.

I learned a lot about working with children, and about myself, and it reinforced my decision to pursue a career in teaching.

If you live what you believe, you will always have the respect of others.

True love is doing what is good for a person. False love is doing only that which causes that person to love you more.

I'd like to produce, direct, write, score, and star in a film in exactly the way Chaplin did. I'll do that before I'm thirty.

I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful.

The welfare of our children is our main concern, and their best interests are our first priority.

I spent my 30s fixing everything I broke in my 20s.

... strong bonds are forged in high emotional temperatures.

I don't think they'd ever make a movie about Chuck Baker but I'd love to play Chuck Baker

Every Irish person of my generation and earlier, we were raised Catholic and we'd have to learn it in school, we'd to learn the catechism by rote.

I'm interested in pressure, I'm interested in duress. All the great works of art, or film or literature, in my opinion, have elements of those in them.

The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it.

It's always nice to be challenged.

The absence of fear is love.

I'm a Christian. I go to church when I can. I was raised Baptist. I went to a Lutheran school. I'm a nondenominational practicing Christian. I have a lot of faith.

I don't think Hollywood per se is supposed to be taken seriously, otherwise, dear Lord, that would be frightening.

I love being in love.

My trouble is I talk first and think later.

Amnesty is not the answer as it will only encourage more illegal immigrants to enter.

Your first obligation, I suppose, is to your God. Your second is to your family. And your third is to your community. And you ought to try to fulfill all of those in your life.

For me, drama is conflict.

It's always been my mom and I against the world.

You actually can make it, no matter what. I truly am a firm believer in that. Eminem's living proof.

I think if you play characters, it's very important not to ever tag them with any sort of disorder, or diagnose them, or whatever. You have to normalize the behavior to get inside the character.

Our border patrol does a great job under these very dangerous conditions. They use very sophisticated equipment, including gamma rays, to detect drugs and illegal immigrants as they enter the U.S.

If I don't die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow.

It is as big a mistake to turn down a good shot as it is to take a bad one

You will never know your limitations until you find them.

I have enough of a sense to know what works for me and what doesn't, without going into some big thing and analyzing what I do. I'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it.

Unzip my body, take my heart out

From the very beginning, I always tried to make dialogue flow comfortably; I always did that to make it seem more authentic.

Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater.

When you come right down to it, I guess I really am pretty bland.

Every bad decision I've made has been based on money.

She had a body that even I coveted in a strictly Platonic sense.

Drew Callahan is my absolute weakness. Like a drug I can't get enough of. He's my addiction and if I'm honest with myself, I'm not looking to kick that particular habit anytime soon.

The competitions are as much a part of the tradition as the actual dances.

In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn't think I could pull that off. I'm a little short to be a basketball player!

I'm in the position to pick the cream of the crop.

I'm trying to figure out the trick of working to live as opposed to living to work, but I don't know if I've quite stumbled upon it just yet.

Playing baseball is not real life. It's a fantasy world... It's a dream come true.

We would be false to our trust if we allowed the time it takes to give effect to constitutional rights to be used as the very reason for taking away those rights.

I consider myself a character actor.