Matthew Quotes

It hurts to look at the clouds, but it also helps, like most things that cause pain.

I want to believe that happiness might at least be possible later on in life for people prone to sadness.

You may exist in this world--but I exist too and I will not yield

Air goes in and out of my nose, throat, lungs, blood, heart brain - and so I am

You can lose yourself in repetition—quiet your thoughts; I learned the value of this at a very young age.

I am trying to be kind instead of right.

I'm trying to let him know what I'm about to do. I'm hoping he can save me, even though I realize he can't.

I am so happy. I am so impossibly happy.

I have both held and beheld unlimited power and of it I know but one thing. It drives men mad.' - Alexander the Great

I feel comfortable here primarily because I think Los Angeles is made up of people who don't come from here, so you can find kindred spirits very easily. It's a town of gypsies.

I am one of those actors who does feel a change when a wig and fake nose are put on. Even the weird little things, like glasses - it's almost like having a mask on.

In my head, I think I'd make a perfect spy, but in reality, I don't think I'd fare very well.

I thought maybe I'd be a farmer. That was another silly notion. I think I'd last about five minutes, being a farmer.

Any lie should be as close to the truth as possible.

As for waxing, I've never waxed in my life and I never would. I'm extremely Welsh, so I draw the line at removing body hair.

It's weird how your perspective changes. At the start of your career, you think, 'I just want to do cutting-edge work that makes people think.' Now, I would do a blockbuster in a heartbeat.

There's such a unique humour in Wales that I just love and miss in Los Angeles.

I definitely want to go back to the theatre. It is hard work, it is repetitive, but it is intensely rewarding.

You play to whatever publication you're being interviewed by.

I got a lot out of 'Brothers Sisters' and learnt some incredible things and I think it certainly had come to a natural ending, so it was definitely time to move on.

In my twenties, I thought I was Robert De Niro and I invested all of myself in my acting. But, as I've got older, I've calmed down a bit. I've thrown my game plan out of the window.

I've realised that nobody's going to die if I don't get it right and that there are a number of things out there, beyond acting, that are very interesting and fulfilling.

I think my mother would be very happy if I found a nice Welsh girl.

I call Sally Field 'America's Mother!' She is incredible to watch.

I love it when television is shot in a cinematic way and I think to aspire to that is no bad thing.

I've done a number of projects where people go, 'This is your breakthrough role,' so I've stopped thinking that.

When I speak to people from Britain, that's when I feel like a fake, speaking with an American accent.

I do like to keep my private life to myself. But then again, I don't really get up to much.

I absolutely loved my time at 'Brothers & Sisters,' what I learned and everything that went with it. It was an incredibly formative time for me.

I love the stage. I'm always sniffing around to see if there's something I can squidge in quickly.

Fun is going to enhance interest, because people don't feel incompetent when they're having fun.

To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are production units, and accorded all the sympathy that term suggests.

The factory farm is . . . an obvious moral evil so sickening and horrendous. . . All this so we can have our accustomed veal or lamb or fried chicken or pork chop or hot dog.

I am a total geek. I'm not even a closet comic book geek. I am the comic book geek.

I went to theater school but never really got the chance to do theater, and it's always been a dream of mine.

That they dared make a town of this wet and sucking thing that vied with my foot for my boot at every step bespoke the glorious and yearning bullshit of men's souls.

A friend who won't respond to what a friend can't ask is like a looking glass in which you cannot see yourself.

Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name.

We've run out of good projects. This is not a money issue... If these oil companies had fantastic projects, they'd be out there [developing new fields].

We need to find three Saudi Arabias just to offset [the] decline.

It is a principle of our nature that feelings once excited turn readily from the object by which they are excited to some other object which may for the time being take possession of the mind.

The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature.

The name of Abraham Lincoln is imperishable.

Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven.

If you live for fame, men may turn against you.

We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.

Duchamp's urinal was art once he put it in a gallery. In fact, one working definition of art is anything that is in a gallery.

Movements are overrated and invented by the press. Ask any artist if they feel or felt part of a movement - the good ones will all say no.

Hollywood is famous for breeding monsters, and having worked in the business, I've known a lot of them. But only intermittently have I ever found them monstrous. They have many other qualities.

Much to my surprise, there's a sense for people in the cable industry that fiction writers might actually be good at script writing. You can write dialogue!