Hugh Quotes

Football fanaticism and high intellect seldom go together.

There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined stones.

I am convinced that these ojects do exist and that they are not manufactured by any nations on earth

It is the middle of December now, and we are about to travel to Switzerland - where we plan to ski a little, relax a little, and shoot a Dutch politician a little.

I didn't realize House would be the central character, more the bitter comic relief appearing occasionally. I relish his wounded nature - the lameness, the scarred Byronic hero.

Surely the right course is to test the Russians, not the bombs.

You still hear some people speaking as though we could decide whether the Common market existed or not.

When I think about actors I know, I'd much rather hear about who they're shagging than what film they're doing next.

I couldn't imagine what Fox thought they were doing, contemplating such a jagged protagonist for a prime-time drama. I only knew that I wanted the role very much.

I don't have any particular burning desire to go back to being cuddly. Not really.

They must be doing something right up there in Canada.

I think age, if you are healthy, I think age is largely a number. My mother lived to be 101. So I'm planning on another quarter century.

Fiction challenges us and works its miracles by placing us in the skin of another human being and teaching us empathy.

The British love permanence more than they love beauty.

A concern with the perfectibility of mankind is always a symptom of thwarted or perverted development.

Perfectionism is slow death.

Every moment that I am centered in the future I suffer a temporary loss of this life.

My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards - but very repressed. There was no hugging and kissing in my home.

For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.

One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives.

The Wolverine was fired from his job as a cashier in a newsagents after just six weeks because his boss said, "he talks too much to customers". He can talk to me all day.

But in another world, another life, probably growing up in another country, I might have been more of a dancer.

Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness.

It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart like acting did.

A film is the director's medium. The theater is an actor's.

As a boy, I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. I got over that.

I lived with a coffee farmer called Dukale on a trip I made with World Vision to Ethiopia, and realised there's no good reason for the disparity in opportunity around the world.

Historically, much of the motivation for public schooling has been to stifle variety and institute social control.

Being on Broadway is the modern equivalent of being a monk. I sleep a lot, eat a lot, and rest a lot.

I'm a big goofball, you know. Don't tell anyone that, but I'm a big goofball. In Australia we call it a dag.

My father taught me that losing your temper is a self-indulgent act.

The last 10 years I have had to bulk up for roles and I'm naturally skinny, so I have eaten and killed so many chickens! I wouldn't even want to count. I need to balance that out.

The acoustics seem to get louder

I'd sell my soul for a good cause.

If somebody in your industry is more successful than you, it's because he works harder than you.

Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues.

Sometimes a thing needed opening before closure was found.

Folks trying to plan their personal fiscal '15 are at a loss. They can't do a budget because they don't know what their health insurance costs will be.

I believe Marco Rubio is going to win Florida, I think Ted Cruz is going to win his Alamo in Texas. I think old rules apply. John Kasich's going to win Ohio as well.

I will say one thing has changed dramatically which is this Supreme Court vacancy, and it will reshape the race on my side, because I'd rather lose an election than lose the Supreme Court.

Bill Blankschaen is an emerging new voice in Christian life.

I cannot look at myself in the mirror; everything I have believed in I have had to reject. This environment only makes sense through the prism of trends.

It is my contention that value does not mix so well with debt.

Retirement is unthinkable to me. The future is bright and very exciting and I'm looking forward to playing a part in it.

Television, cable, the Internet, that's knocked the boundaries down.

Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions.

Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.

And almost everyone when age, disease, or sorrows strike him, inclines to think there is a God, or something very like him.

Whither depart the souls of the brave that die in the battle, Die in the lost, lost fight, for the cause that perishes with them?

Being self-taught is no disgrace; but being self-certified is another matter.