Matthew Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I like doing family films.

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

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.

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

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.

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

In practice, US officials seem to know better than to indulge in the patriotic myth that our constitution is the greatest system of government ever devised.

Not lost, but gone before.

Men of polite learning and a liberal education.

All this and heaven too.

Our creature comforts

They have most satisfaction in themselves, and consequently the sweetest relish of their creature comforts.

It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true.

Brown bread and the Gospel is good fare.

At the heart of its strength is a weakness: a lone candle can hold it back. Love is more than a candle, love can ignite the stars.

Nature is content with little; grace with less; but lust with nothing.

I would think it a greater happiness to gain one soul to Christ than mountains of silver and gold to myself.

Those will soon come to make nothing of God that will not be content to make him their all.

Reasons are for peasants.

Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.

God warns before he wounds.

Always in search of the question that might make you ask me one in return

. . . when we cannot do the good we would, we must be ready to do the good we can.

Were we to think more of our own mistakes and offences, we should be less apt to judge other people.

Do nothing till thou hast well considered the end of it.