C.M. Bacon Quotes

There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God.

Obviously, my perception of the world is one where humans are a threat to our survival.

It's easy to get laid when you're rich and famous. When you're broke and unknown, it takes skill.

Doing funny scary is something that is rarely good and rarely works, and it's also something that's incredibly hard to market.

I do better on the first three takes; I won't be better at 20 takes.

There are some actor secrets you keep sometimes, and you want to keep.

I think of myself more as a workhorse actor. It will be hot and cold and up and down, but no one will kick me out of the business.

I don't create the movies I'm in. When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song.

I want to see the numbers that prove that show-business marriages are any less successful than other marriages. It's just very public when they fail.

Doing the press, it's part of my job, so I do it with a smile on my face, but I'm not comfortable in the hot seat.

I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act.

I don't have to do the lead. If I dig a part, I'll do it.

I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though.

A lot of people believe in reading reviews. If I get too focused on some detail of what they've said about me, I'm going to end up shooting myself in the foot.

A lot of times, the script is the thing they care about least.

After so many years it's embarrassing to admit that I don't honestly know how much I want to be directed.

Even the people that support Bush aren't happy with the way things are going in Iraq.

Clint Eastwood has always been a hero.

If I'm in a situation where someone doesn't recognize me and treats me like everyone else, I'm not used to it.

My family survived losing money to Bernie Madoff incredibly well compared to others.

I'll be honest with you. My kids don't watch my movies and never have. I can maybe name a film one hand that they've seen, actually, all the way through.

L.A. kind of scares me.

My dad was an architect, and he wasn't a rich guy, but in our little world in Philadelphia he was famous. He loved to see his picture in the paper. I wanted to be more famous than him.

I'd always tried not to worry about the size of the role or the size of the film.

There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content.

My kids don't watch my movies. What I want to do is go home and hug my kids, talk to them and engage with them.

Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him.

I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just have to find a story I want to tell.

I did all the dialect work, all my character work completely by myself.

I am proud to place Tercio Red River into a conservation easement forever protecting this spectacular landscape with Colorado Open Lands.

I have learned the lesson the hard way and I hope it serves as a lesson to lots of other young people. I would also like to apologise to all loyal Blue Peter viewers.

I regret what I did but it was in my personal time and I therefore hope that it does not reflect on the show

Caprice is half man. There is something manly about her.

I have been stupid and regret making a silly mistake experimenting with drugs.

For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.

If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics.

Knowledge itself is power

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ...but to weigh and consider.

Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.

The only really interesting thing iswhat happens between two people in a room.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.

We gave ourselves for lost men, and prepared for death. Yet we did lift up our hearts and voices to God above, who "showeth His wonders in the deep".

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences b

A man dies as often as he loses his friends.

All rising to a great place is by a winding stair.

by indignities men come to dignities

It is a poore Center of a Mans Actions, Himselfe.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.