S.R. Ford Quotes
I'm not jumping into anything fast. I'm an actor that likes to choose my work and there's an element of good taste to my work.
I've often thought that my lack of intimacy with those around me is the fault of those around me.
I have decided to follow in my sinful ways, and have largely abandoned the increasingly religious life I was leading over the previous months, including several hours of Talmudic study a day.
I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.
I've had horror movies thrown at me and I just don't want to do any because violence isn't really good for society.
Whether you do a play in front of 100 people or a movie that one billion people see, you're still affecting people.
At the time I perceived most religious men, particularly the pastors with all their talk about love, faith and relationship, as effeminate.
I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians.
I'm one of the guys who wants to watch the film completely done, with special effects, sound and music, because I tend to get disappointed if I watch it not fully done.
In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed.
My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation.
The trouble for most people is they don't decide to get wealthy, they just dream about it.
Nothing will enrich your life as much as the appreciation of art. If you want to 'Live Rich', you have to - absolutely have to - include art in your life.
No one in France cares if you tried to kill yourself. In fact, I think they like you better because you're all tragic.
Here’s what I think. One, people should figure out that if they go around bothering bears, chances are they’re going to end up bear snacks. Second, people suck.
If you ever manage to become perfect, you have to die instantly before you ruin things for everyone else.
It usually takes me at least ten days and a number of snacks to go from feeling something to being able to articulate what I felt.
Most things don't stay the way they are for very long. I take nothing for granted and try to be ready for the change that's soon to come.
The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.
I didn't feel up to writing about 9/11. If I were to write about it, it would take me years.
Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction.
If there's another thing that sportswriting teaches you, it is that there are no transcendent themes in life. In all cases things are here and they're over, and that has to be enough.
It's interesting to leave a place, interesting even to think about it. Leaving reminds us of what we can part with and what we can't, then offers us something new to look forward to, to dream about.
For, how else to seize such an instant? How to shout out into the empty air just the right words, and on cue? Frame a moment to last a lifetime?
Even though I get a lot done with my solitude, and I make the best use of it possible, I always think solitude is an interlude in a period of time, which is populated by others.
I've been mainly a happy boy in my life. I married the right girl and we did what we wanted to do.
Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.
In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff that I'm working on.
My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to.
The world is a more engaging and less dramatic place than writers ever give it credit for being