Quotes about Contentment, page 46

Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real.

Quote by Colin Firth about contentment

Above all, film is a business... Independence is a really cool thing as you can be a bit more bold, and take a few more chances with what you do.

Quote by Mel Gibson about contentment

Boot Camp was great and very interesting. You got to use live rounds of ammunition and got to do a lot of crawling around with live rounds flying around you, so you really had to learn to keep your ass down - everything down for that matter.

Quote by Mel Gibson about contentment

I do notice that when I've been away and I come back to London. People look at you. People are ready to pick arguments.

Quote by Colin Firth about contentment

I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it's like a spiritual cancer afflicts you.

Quote by Mel Gibson about contentment

I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been...

Quote by Mel Gibson about contentment

I think it's quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I'm Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife, at the age of 35, you could name two girlfriends.

Quote by Colin Firth about contentment

That's like asking you to pick your favorite child... I do however, think Bird on a Wire was one of my finest works. Oscar caliber.

Quote by Mel Gibson about contentment

Well, I think any time you delve into this sort of religion, politics, as you well know, you're going to, you know, touch a few nerves. I wasn't - now - and this is the honest truth.

Quote by Mel Gibson about contentment

Well, if you look at the whole story, I mean there's only Jews and Romans in the story. I mean I just wanted to flesh that character out and make that a drama about the people around Christ when he was going through this passion.

Quote by Mel Gibson about contentment

If you don't mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there.

Quote by Colin Firth about contentment

It used to be that I was always paranoid or a loser or something so there's usually something that you seem to associate yourself with at one time or another.

Quote by Colin Firth about contentment

Most actors will tell you they have some sort of dream of doing something other than what they're doing.

Quote by Colin Firth about contentment

To be bothered wherever you go - it's not a rational thing to want at all.

Quote by Colin Firth about contentment

You know, you do find though that actresses spend half their lives with people lobbying to take their clothes off and then they finally do it and they get crap for it for years. I mean people still hit Glenda Jackson with it now, still. I do think...

Quote by Colin Firth about contentment

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.

Quote by William Godwin about contentment

They think that to be a Fascist you must have some sort of shirt uniform, must drill and goose-step, must have a demonstrative salute, must hate the Jews, and believe in dictatorship.

Quote by John Thomas Flynn about contentment

Brando, any of those are like a backbone on which you can build a skeleton and put flesh and blood in.

Quote by Peter Fonda about contentment

Everyone always has a different perception of you.

Quote by Peter Fonda about contentment

He was an extraordinary actor. The neat part was acting with him. He said, I don't know why you give yourself that kind of trouble, son. But for me, there was no trouble.

Quote by Peter Fonda about contentment