Hugh Quotes

The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.

The tragedy of the Book of Mormon is not what became of the Nephites but what the Nephites became.

Life has ups and it has downs. I don't care who you are.

I think that sexual oppression and dictatorship go hand in hand.

I always think, quite frankly that pop culture is a lot more important than a lot of people realize.

I think being connected to younger people helps to keep you young and gives you a young attitude.

Well, it has been rather hectic since the 11th of September, and even before then it was quite busy.

I think the most interesting question is, why do you act? I act because I have felt in acting some of the most free moments of my life...I think it's also one thing that scares me the most.

Playboy isn't like the downscale, male bonding, beer-swilling phenomena that is being promoted now by (some men's magazines). My whole notion was the romantic connection between male and female.

There is space in the supermarket shelf for all of us.

I suspect the secret of personal attraction is locked up in our unique imperfections, flaws and frailties.

I can live with failure if it is born of conviction.

The Entity who brought the universe into existence must be a Personal Being, for only a person can design with anywhere near this degree of precision.

Real character is formed in the midst of the battles of the soul.

A bibliomaniac is one to whom books are like bottles of whiskey to the inebriate, to whom anything that is between covers has an intoxicating savor.

In my view, Africa's real problems are cultural.

Happiness comes, I know, from some spring within a man — from some curious adjustment to life.

The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

If your reaction to your partner's fear-or any other form of distress- is disdain or irritation, you do not want oneness or even friendship with your partner at that moment.

I loved playing Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar. I mean you can't do better than playing God!

Hang a shining star upon the highest bough.

Acting is largely about putting on masks, and music is about removing them.

It is throwing our life away, to think of the wrong things.

Well, I have a testimony, I may be ignorant, but I am not lost.

But when you're a celebrity, you discover that you're no longer the pursuer, but the one being pursued. That's one of the disappointments I have had since becoming a single man.

We are all saying the same thing in different words.

I can assure you that there is no question of us throwing away the tradition of the Grammar Schools.

It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.

On horseback he seemed to require as many hands as a Hindu god, at least four for clutching the reins, and two more for patting the horse soothingly on the neck.

In the last few years we have learned to distinguish the means of Socialism from the ends.

This was the tricky bit. The really tricky bit, trickiness cubed.

I never was someone who was at ease with happiness.

Allah isgreat, no doubt, and Juxtaposition his prophet.

People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.

The best part about being married is that feeling of being a team. All couples have ups and downs, so having someone you trust is priceless

Because of the nature of my life, it's difficult for people to recognize that a person can live a full life, and maybe an unorthodox life, and still be on the side of the angels.

I had Courtney Love's left bosom out of her dress on my plate in front of me. It was extraordinary. I didn't know where to look.

Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.

I had a bad back for a couple of years. I had to do a lot of physiotherapy for it. What I couldn't understand at the time was why the therapists had me doing a lot of stomach work.

We shall not surrender.

Playboy, very clearly, from the outset, has fought against the historical repression of women. The notion that we were anywhere else simply defies the reality.

All good government must begin at home. It is useless to make good laws for bad people; what is wanted is this, to subdue the tyranny of the human heart.

The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase.

Sometimes silence resolves a conversation confused by Mad Misconstruction.

The happiest people I have known in this world have been the Saints-and, after these, the men and women who get immediate and conscious enjoyment from little things.

Summation of Leviathan: "The axiom, fear; the method, logic; the conclusion, despotism."

Now I meet people with full-color Wolverine tattoos on their backs. Thank God I did okay, because I think if I hadn't, they'd spit on me in the street.

But it's morning. Within my hands is another day. Another day to listen and love and walk and glory. I am here for another day.

Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.

Just because it's a bad job doesn't mean I need to do it badly.