Jim Quotes

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

So you can't lose serving God, and that all things work together for good.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you.

You look like a diabetic strip club owner.

Deadwood was a magical experience. It was an absolute culmination of everything Ive ever wanted to do as an actor as an artist, and I was enormously proud to have been involved with it.

If you've got a talent, protect it.

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.

Music inflames temperament.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

Are you a lucky little lady in the City of Light? Or just another lost angel... City of Night?

I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.

Not one country in existence today has had the same borders and government for as long as two hundred years. The world will continue changing.

Hope is a force of nature. Don't let anyone tell you different.

It's a sad and beautiful world.

For me, I think the greatest achievements of science is to allow humanity to realize that our world is comprehensible. Through science, rational thinking, we can understand how the universe works.

Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had.

There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more . . . secure.

You can make your marriage a little bit of heaven on earth by following God's plan of teamwork.

Who said that every wish would be heard and answered when wished on an evening star? Somebody thought of it and someone believed it, and look what its done so far.

A good investor in this new world knows to always expect the unexpected.

Lois pursues the truth no matter what sort of adversity faces her. I think Superman sees that, and it's the same moral compass that he has from the Kents.

Isn't it cool when the days that are supposed to feel good, actually do?

To ask a novelist to talk about his novels is like asking somebody to cook about their dancing.

I'm a craftsman. I'm an actor.

When things go wrong on a macroeconomic level, it's almost always this way. People find someone to blame, whether it's blacks, whites, Christians, Jews, Muslims-whoever.

Television is basically teaching whether you want it to or not.

If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace.

With the right attitude, human beings can move mountains. With the wrong attitude, they can be crushed by the smallest grain of sand.

Without giving specific names, most of the significant American banks, the larger banks, are bankrupt, totally bankrupt.

Every time we open the Bible, let's stop and pray, whether for fifteen seconds or fifteen minutes, asking the Spirit to teach us. When I read the Bible, I want God to talk to my soul.

The world becomes an apparently infinite, yet possibly finite, card game. Image combinations, permutations, comprise the world game.

I always believed in God, I would go to mass most of the time, but I had no idea of the calling to holiness.

I believe that life is basically a process of growth-that we go through many lives, choosing those situations and problems that we will learn through.

There will be water and food fights everywhere.

I still put my pants on the same way. I still walk on my pool twice a day.

Ya know what I do almost every day? I wash. Personal hygiene is part of the package with me.

All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.

Whenever you've got a choice, do good, kiddo. It isn't always fun or easy, but in the long run it makes your life better.

I don't know, I find that honestly, the stand-up thing in some ways is a little bit of a cliché to carry around, because people don't consider stand-ups really actors.

Pie can't compete with cake. Put candles in a cake, it's a birthday cake. Put candles in a pie, someone's drunk in the kitchen.

Everything we would ever need to become rich and powerful and sophisticated is within our reach. The major reason that so few take advantage of all that we have is simply, neglect.

Babies should be classified as an antidepressant. It's pretty hard to be in a bad mood around a 5-month-old baby.

The word "tip" stands for "to insure promptness." So when should you give it? Up front,of course. Sophisticated people don't take chances on poor service, they insure good service.

Mulligan: invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder.

Humans have the remarkable ability to get exactly what they must have. But there is a difference between a 'must' and 'want'.

The greatest gift you can give someone is your personal development.

For every promise, there is a price to pay... If the promise is clear, the price is easy.

There's a trench coat and a tragedy in your future.

In the words of the ancients, one should make his decision within the space of seven breaths. It is a matter of being determined and having the spirit to break through to the other side.

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.