Matthew Quotes

It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.

I like doing as many special effects in camera, as much as possible.

I wasn't bullied or anything at school, but I was quite shy and didn't speak up too much in class.

I'm very comfortable being at home and keeping my head down, really. It's nice being invited to night clubs and stuff, which is nice once in a while, but I prefer to kind of keep to myself.

As long as I'm acting and doing what I love, I'll be happy.

I remember sitting at the end of my mum's bed being fascinated by her ritual of getting dressed. It was a very methodical and considered process. I suppose you could say she was my first real muse.

You may not have faith in my friend fate, But my friend fate has faith in you.

I like doing family films.

Nothing would make my kids happier than to do another movie.

I wouldn't want to leave it so long before doing a play again, I get very stolid and sluggish if I do too much telly.

I don't feel like a romantic lead; I guess I feel more like a character actor.

The actor in me would always like to be more dashing, or slimmer, or have nicer hair.

My dad was a geologist and my mum was a nurse who directed amateur theatrics.

Apart from earning an awful lot of money, why would you go to Hollywood?

My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.

I think human consciousness is a misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware, nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself. We are creatures that should not exist by natural law.

I'm obsessed with trying to understand what somebody is talking about and trying to get them to understand me.

The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

We found a great rhythm. Contractions started kicking in. I sat there with her, right between her legs. We got tribal on it, we danced to it! I was DJ-ing this Brazilian music.

Bringing a baby into the world is something I've always wanted, and now I'm completely ready for my life to start revolving around another human being.

I like to be directed, but when I'm flying and I'm on fire, I don't want someone coming and getting in my way just because they feel like they need to.

When you've got a new family, any kind of security you can have is great.

Cameras aren't guns. They can't really hurt you.

I say to the paparazzi, 'Fellas, take your shot and go.' It's just they usually find me on a beach.

I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.

There are a lot of things you can do with a law degree background, but I just didn't have a passion for it.

I would love to do a comedy spoof, like a Spinal Tap kind of thing.

Yes, for my undergrad I majored in Criminal Justice and minored in Political Science and English.

I'd love to work on a script in collaboration.

My shoes were on Oprah but they ran out of time so I wasn't on. I left my shoes in Chicago so they could put them on the show.

My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition.

They don't have the news media set up in Africa that we do in the United States, where televisions are so accessible and newspapers and magazines are able to educate people.

The experience of using a Rolleiflex camera is very different than using a SLR.

Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again.

You hope and pray that you'll get involved with a director that you understand and who has the same sensibility as you do and knows how to push you and bring out the best in you.

I played Little League and in high school. I played more over the years whenever there was a pick-up game... usually softball.

I've worked with Robert Altman a couple of times too.

You don't drink and smoke that much, and womanize that much, unless you really want to be punished, I think.

The show is not a history lesson or intellectual exploration. It is entertainment based on tension, irony and storytelling that is closely related to today’s life.

So I think I sometimes will put a cliche in and then just pad it out so you're not noticing.

On both sides the troops were commanded by royal princes and they massacred each other mercilessly.

I think it's easier to make a film with 200 million dollars than 960 grand.

Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.

Washington and the elder Napoleon. Both were brave men; both were true men; both loved their country and dared to expose their lives for their country's cause.

Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age.

If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses; how wide is that we gain from other sources.

Still the most intense pleasure's but a splinter of ice on the gallons of lava that gush from my cracked heart.

At home I can become lazy and if a Welsh word is really long, I just replace it with English.

Religious people ... hold a kind and merciful view of life, the faith of the broken, the hounded, the hopeless. Yet too often, they will not extend that spirit to our fellow creatures.

You can't please everyone... If you make a good movie, that's all that matters.