J.S. Mills Quotes

I enjoy being single, but I loved being married.

When it comes to football, God is prejudiced - toward big, fast kids.

It took one human error to take my leg and one human error to take my mother's.

Every day women and children are killed and maimed by landmines long after wars are over.

I could get into bed with James Bond, then take my false leg off and it would really be a gun.

I don't mean to be accident prone, but my excuse is if you really want to get somewhere you have to go full gas.

I have a lot of mirrors around my house, not because I like to look at myself, but because I like the light and perspective they bring to a room.

Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding things inside that they have experienced.

Once cancer happens it changes the way you live for the rest of your life.

When you start acting as a child, you grow up ahead of your movies.

Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes.

The only way for errors to occur in a program is by being put there by the author. No other mechanisms are known. Programs can't acquire bugs by sitting around with other buggy programs.

Humans are vulnerable, messy little animals and that's normal. And all I want to do is make a space for that in my films.

I also loved musicals because I was a dancer.

I feel more comfortable in front of a camera than anywhere else.

There is a drunkenness to grief, which is good.

I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting.

Love is never jealous. It's a connection. It's an energy. It's an embodiment.

I'm not afraid of anything other than spiritual annihilation. Where your soul is sucked into the void.

I believe entertainers should know what's going on and do their own banking.

The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values.

The means of effective communication are being expropriated from the intellectual worker.

It's the best thing ever - I love being a mom. This is my only child. My career was a priority earlier in my life, but now my son is definitely the priority.

All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.

The most attractive thing that I've seen in the creative realm is the enthusiasm in people that does not seem to burn out. That's what I'm after.

I was brought up Catholic, and my family is still very religious.

My spirituality is parochial, terrestrial. I do qualify as a W.I.T.C.H. , but my irrecular practice and impromptu rituals don't aim at producing any dramatic results except, perhaps, in me.

And some people, you've got to lock up. If you don't, they're going to hurt you.

Despair is not a particularly respectable condition and yet despair and delight alternate like systole and diastole in my heart.

Enjoying the least things - a chill glass of water, a moment of play with the cat, the sight of sunlight caught in the frost spangling the locust twigs - is a form of prayer.

I think, unfortunately, some people are just bad, they're just born bad, and I don't know why.

Seeing is a gift that comes with practice.

I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.

I was born at night, but not last night.

I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden.

People will respect you more if you are honest with them.

Do something for yourself today that you will thank yourself for tomorrow.

When you’re in love, you don’t need words. A look, a touch, a sigh – you’ve said it all.

A mine-free world does not need to be a dream - together, we can make it a reality.

I don't drink, I don't smoke and I don't party.

People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages.

Art is living stopped for a moment of wonder.

I was always searching. I became a Buddhist in my twenties when I came to Los Angeles. I met a group of people who I really loved.

I was drawn to acting because it was the one place that I found an emotional outlet.

People love me or hate me and all I think about is the people that I know and suffer with different causes and carry on my charity work and that's what keeps me alive really.

As the ongoing industrial crusade to turn all earthly life to commercial purpose relentlessly impoverishes the biosphere and human culture, our living images of graceful possibility dwindle.

Most women don't like good men. They say they want a good buy, but most women always wind up with the bad boy.

I fell in love with a man, not a Beatle.

I fell in love for the right reason. I fell in love unconditionally.

I'm a good mother. I'm a good person.