Ru Freeman Quotes

I'm also very fond of a light business jet, so I'd like to get it before it's too late.

In growing up, I was a child of the movies. I went to the movies every given opportunity, and that's pretty much what has informed a lot of my choices.

In my career? Me. I'm the boss. I'm the end all and be all. I'm the alpha and omega in that.

Every day stop before something beautiful long enough to say, "Isn’t that b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l!"

What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess.

I think the American people lose a large part of the joy of life because they do not live for generations in the same place.

This would be a grand land if only every Irishman would kill a negro, and be hanged for it.

I wanted to find ways for colleges and universities to become involved with public schools to help young people prepare for college.

The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines.

Ethical progress is the only cure for the damage done by scientific progress.

The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility.

The thing that makes me most optimistic is China and India - both of them doing well.

The camera points both ways. In expressing the subject you also express yourself.

Pubic hair is proof of sexual maturity and if your partner finds that a turn-off, you should probably reconsider that partner.

As far as escaping and making plays, I have a lot of faith in our line.

Suicide is part murder, revenge on those who hurt you, just as murder is part suicide, for a murderer knows he risks losing his life.

When one must sit with the snobs, one belongs with the frightened.

I'm one of the few people I know who believes in God.

I don't think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment.

People misunderstand me.

I only really watch my own films, I don't watch any other films and I don't particularly like any other actors.

I like out, I like the outside world.

I love home. I'd rather be at home than anywhere else.

Most actors are either a shower of bloody scruffs or think they should dress like Hamlet off stage.

As good marketers, we like to tinker with things and make them better.

You don't know how much you appreciate your privacy until you don't have it.

All my life, all my life that I can, as far back as I can remember, I saw my first movie when I was six years old. And since then I wanted to do that. I wanted to be a part of that.

If you're playing somebody who is not you, then you can imagine that you are that person. You can feel like he feels, move like he moves, look like he looks - in your own mind.

You want to retire from a job you're not that all enamoured with. I love what I do. I want to keep doing it till I can't get out of bed doing it.

The surest way to lose at any endeavor is to quit.

I'm not one who can write out a speech and remember all the names of the people that you need to thank because you need to thank all of those people.

We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.

Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?

I was probably cool around the end of 2002.

You don't want your children to look at you like you are anything special other than their dad.

So he's above the law because he's a celebrity or something. Just because you're Russell Crowe doesn't mean you can do whatever you like.

Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent.

Progress in science is often built on wrong theories that are later corrected. It is better to be wrong than to be vague.

Do not imagine that you have to know everything before you can do anything. My own best work was done when I was most ignorant.

A model is done when nothing else can be taken out.

There is no way to find the best design except to try out as many designs as possible and discard the failures.

If you don't have a nasty obituary you probably didn't matter.

The history of mathematics is a history of horrendously difficult problems being solved by young people too ignorant to know that they were impossible.

When the great innovation appears, it will almost certainly be in muddled, incomplete and confusing form. ... For any speculation which does not at first glance look crazy, there is no hope.

For any speculation which does not at first glance look crazy, there is no hope.

Things are always more complicated than most people believe.

[John Wheeler] rejuvenated general relativity; he made it an experimental subject and took it away from the mathematicians

Almost everything about the universe is astounding.

I'm prejudiced about education altogether. I think it's terribly overrated.

As a working hypothesis to explain the riddle of our existence, I propose that our universe is the most interesting of all possible universes, and our fate as human beings is to make it so