CS Lewis Quotes

My life is devoted to self-delusion - and I have a great capacity for that - but it's the thing that gives me the most pleasure, so I can't complain about it.

I hate wasting people's time.

To people who don't know me I'm defined by a number of things that people know about me that are entirely untrue.

I'm a warrior when it comes to pursuing roles.

I hate the domestic life.

Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting.

I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.

The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon.

You've just provided me with the makings of one hell of a weekend in Dublin.

It must be hard interviewing actors.

It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.

I don't feel my son should pay the price for what I do.

I never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all.

I like to learn about things.

I became conflicted in my late teens.

I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride.

I like to cook things very slowly.

Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.

I broke things to get attention.

I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was.

God knows, I haven't always been successful.

Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German.

I'm not actually a big musical fan.

It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.

I had a very vivid, almost hallucinatory moment in which I was engaged in a dialogue with my father...

I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.

Without love no life left on earth.

Without love I mean nothing to you Without love broken in two Without love give me some value some worth Without love no life left on earth.

I got your head noddin' cuz your neck knows it's phat.

I got to keep it tight like seams, Cause ain't no fiends Comin' in between me and my dreams, See what I mean, black?

Fortunately, I'm in a band with people who really like and respect each other personally.That makes this whole experience so much better.

For the lazy, all work is difficult.

Disaster falls on those who try hardest to avoid it.

I like projects in which I can really act and not be me all the time.

The only place I can go where I'm not mobbed is my house.

I'm perfectly healthy.

I want to direct, produce, and write, learning as I go.

Sometimes kids used to give me a hard time. But they're on my side.

There were the days of so-called free love ... but it didn't take long to discover that love is not free. Sooner or later it exacts its price.

We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.

Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come later.

Truth is the hardest substance in the world to pin down. But the one certainty is the awesome penalty exacted sooner or later from a society whose reporters stop trying.

Romance cannot be put into quantity production-the moment love becomes casual, it becomes commonplace.

It is easier to tear down a code than to put a new one in its place.

There's a lot of uncertainty that's not clear in my mind.

Shoot, after you've been through freeway traffic in Houston or Dallas, there's no road in the world that can scare you. Besides, we're pretty much used to driving long distances in Texas.

There is no magic when one no longer believes.

My first kiss can be summed up in one word - unsuccessful.

Sometimes bad is bad.

New York was the inspiration for The Heart of Rock and Roll and Workin for a Livin. There are a lot of songs in the streets of New York.