I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It’s not like an action star.

I never wanted to be Marilyn – it just happened. Marilyn’s like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

When you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.

Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

Movies were invented for Jimmy Cagney, and he was invented for the movies. A perfect match.

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

The most propagandistic element of ‚Frozen‘ was the transformation of the prince at the beginning of the story, who was a perfectly good guy, into a villain with no character development whatsoever about three-quarters of the way to the ending.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.

I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

The life of an action star is very short. I want to be an actor like Robert De Niro, like Dustin Hoffman or Clint Eastwood who in their 70s or 80s can still act.

Nothing endures but change.

It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.

I didn’t have to win, and winning wasn’t important to me. Being world champion wasn’t important to me. What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.

In order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

It’s a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

The name Zahra was to have been lman’s own name at birth, but a senior member of the family changed it to lman at the last minute.

The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, ‚I want to get out and become like him‘. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.

But I think we’re also just talking about the literacy of the audience. The visual literacy of the audience. They’ve seen so many images now, especially here in the States. There’s so much to look at, to watch. So the visual storytelling literacy is harder to impress.

If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

In two decades I’ve lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.

For an author, the nice characters aren’t much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters. You know, the characters that are constantly wondering if what they are doing is the right thing, characters that are not only screwed up but are self-tapping screws. They’re doing it for themselves.

I came to Hollywood and within a decade I was one of the biggest action stars of all time.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.

Yes, I’m always – I’m always surprised when you make a film and you live with it a while and you put it out, you never dream that anybody is ever going to want to really see it.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn’t take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

If I said I would knock out Sonny Liston in 1 minute and 49 seconds of the first round, that would hurt the gate.

I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

I’m proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.

I prefer the old theaters because the audience is… trapped.

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one’s children will become than for the children one’s ‚mature‘ critics often are.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

I guess it’s flattering that everyone believed I was those characters, but it also is dehumanizing.

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win.

I don’t want to be an action star; action star’s life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.

Actor’s life is very long.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.