I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.
~By Ralph Fiennes ~
I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.
~By Dennis Quaid ~
Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
~By Daniel Dennett ~
My background has been very helpful for this experience. But everyone was so accommodating because they knew it's not the most comfortable position to be the new kid.
~By Jeri Ryan ~
The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics - and our external ones too - the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are - as women and as mothers.
~By Arianna Huffington ~
What I see for the band by the end of this year is the Complex live at the Montreux Jazz Festival. I want my guys to be comfortable. I'm certainly not in this for the money, but I'd really like to see my guys make some money off of this stuff.
~By Jimmy Chamberlin ~
I think becoming an actor because it's a ridiculously insecure profession to go into. I feel very comfortable but very lucky. I think any time that you imagine that it's plain sailing for hereon in, then you're kidding yourself.
~By Hugh Dancy ~
It's a lot more comfortable, I must say. Ummm, I didn't think I'd be playing with another band, I kinda thought I was through with that, but I make an exception because they're nice people.
~By Vivian Campbell ~
Society historically has a difficult time with the concept of something new and foreign that shakes up our comfortable views, especially if it involves the very volatile question of sexual identity.
~By Mercedes Ruehl ~
The Governor's Mansion is a beautiful home, a beautiful building - we're privileged to have a chance to live there. It certainly doesn't feel as comfortable as our home.
~By Matt Blunt ~
It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in those days, people were living very much on the edge - life was incredibly hard!
~By Derek Jacobi ~
I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated.
~By Dian Fossey ~
When I see a movie with someone it's kind of uncomfortable.
~By S. E. Hinton ~
He never yelled or screamed so I felt very at home and comfortable.
~By Margaret O'Brien ~
No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.
~By Gail Sheehy ~
I've always been the only girl in those environments. It's comfortable for me - I prefer it, actually.
~By Lisa Guerrero ~
I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set.
~By John Malkovich ~
If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.
~By Bill Cosby ~
I made a comfortable living for several years. I invested, and I protected myself, so I enjoy that freedom.
~By Thomas Haden Church ~
Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.
~By Saint Basil ~
You can never get to a place of comfort in this business. As soon as you hit that little cushy spot, somebody's gonna kick you out. So I have a constant need to do it better.
~By Charlize Theron ~
Olivia Newton-John was our first choice to play Sandy, but she was nervous about acting, whether she would feel comfortable with us and could pull it off at all.
~By Randal Kleiser ~
There's no comfort in the truth, pain is all you'll find.
~By George Michael ~
When I'm not working I just like to be comfortable: I love black, nothing tight, no heels, no make-up - it's nice to be able to breathe!
~By Eva Green ~
The heavy guitars are the ones that sound good. They are not that comfortable, but they do sound great.
~By Neil Schon ~
I was the guy that told Bill Clinton he was going to win. I had gotten the final polling numbers. He had a comfortable lead. He was not going to lose.
~By Paul Begala ~
The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.
~By Andy Rooney ~
I feel my family's needs are a priority. I'm not comfortable with the idea of serving the many and ignoring my family.
~By Susan Sarandon ~
I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.
~By Jim Morrison ~
But I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older.
~By George Clooney ~
It's never been bad or ridiculous. I know who I am and what I've done, and I'm really comfortable with myself.
~By Tina Yothers ~
It was so strange. I knew that Josephine Baker had performed on the same stage but that night I felt it. Many of the same people who worked with Josephine Baker are still here. They know what they're doing. And that was a very comfortable feeling.
~By LaToya Jackson ~
All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise.
~By Cleopatra ~
We're talking about the lawyers for the United States of America. And I think it's very, very important that the lawyers be comfortable being very candid and open about their views on very sensitive issues affecting the United States.
~By Alberto Gonzales ~
I like to grow as an actor, and you can do that by playing parts that are unfamiliar to you and uncomfortable.
~By David Schwimmer ~
It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.
~By Wyndham Lewis ~
There have been some friendships lost over this. That's the most difficult for me. I find it very uncomfortable to know that I was at one time close friends with someone, and because of jealousies and misunderstandings and so on, these friendships have dissolved.
~By Donald Johanson ~
My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university.
~By Paul Nurse ~
Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
~By Imelda Marcos ~
I think there is something for all of us where you find a balance in your life, where you feel that everything you do isn't about your own creature comforts or satisfying your own appetites. Some of it has to be directed outward and there is a huge satisfaction in that.
~By Wendie Malick ~
They are uncomfortable talking about sex because they don't want people to think they know about it.
~By Sue Johanson ~
Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort.
~By Peter McWilliams ~
One of the issues facing us today is that there are countries where there is a serious lack of resources, the standards of living are very low, and this creates a fundamental unease and discomfort in entire populations.
~By Ralph Merkle ~
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
~By William Samuel Johnson ~
I made a few records here and there by default, but I wasn't ever comfortable in that role. I wasn't comfortable on stage. We'll see how it goes this time.
~By T-Bone Burnett ~
Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.
~By James Herriot ~
It's actually very freeing to be given permission as an artist to let that ride and to really let it ride, to actually experience it and bring it out of you. It's been uncomfortable and it's freeing at the same time.
~By Josh Holloway ~
I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.
~By Mac Davis ~
History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.
~By Gerald R. Ford ~
Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are.
~By Jonathan Coe ~
The best thing to do is stare it in the face and move on. We have to face our fears and plow through. I think taking chances takes a lot more courage than staying stagnant and doing what's safe and comfortable.
~By Terri Clark ~
Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.
~By Margot Asquith ~
I chose to not wear a wire and tape people. I chose to not get immunity until - were accepted, whatever - until the independent counsel's office was comfortable with what I said was the truth.
~By Monica Lewinsky ~
Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.
~By William Hazlitt ~
I think every man who is not a religious moron likes when a woman is comfortable with watching a porn movie.
~By Izabella Scorupco ~
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
~By Aristotle ~
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
~By Earl Nightingale ~
Encouraging people to believe in it was the most important thing of all. It's one of the reasons I was always uncomfortable whenever film crews came on the set to shoot things. I didn't want our make-believe to be exposed.
~By Patrick Stewart ~
And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.
~By Vernor Vinge ~
My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
At a family's most difficult time, I want to make sure at a minimum that they have the very basic of comforts: the ability to grieve their loss privately and the knowledge that their country is grateful for their loved one's sacrifice and service.
~By Dave Reichert ~
I can't say this enough, I'm totally comfortable with my body. I like my body, I don't think it's a bad thing, I think I have a nice body, I'm happy with it.
~By Cameron Diaz ~
I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.
~By Natalie Portman ~
There's people that are just in awe of what you do, and then there are people who just think it's garbage. And I think there are people who are just uncomfortable seeing someone have fun with their job.
~By Todd Barry ~
Today my passion is still black and white. Today if I have an array of cameras in front of me the one I would reach for that I would feel most comfortable with would be a 4 X 5 View camera. I was once working in a sort of soft light situation.
~By John Sexton ~
I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.
~By Tupac Shakur ~
There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.
~By Washington Irving ~
Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions.
~By William Allen White ~
At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it.
~By Phil McGraw ~
I find Jesus my confidant and companion, brother and savior; our relationship is intimate, vulnerable, demanding yet comfortable and reassuring.
~By Malcolm Boyd ~
Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain some level of comfort.
~By Julian Schnabel ~
I think also there was a lot of coming to terms with where I am in life, where I fit in as a gay man in America, and getting more comfortable with who I am.
~By Bob Mould ~
I have about 100 pairs of pajamas. I like to see people dressed comfortably.
~By Hugh Hefner ~
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
~By Pope John Paul II ~
When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.
~By Imelda Marcos ~
When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort.
~By Kevyn Aucoin ~
Everything is just better in California - the wine, the food, fruits and vegetables, the comforts of living. Even the instrumentalists are generous and curious. Everything is wonderful.
~By Beth Anderson ~
One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
~By E. M. Forster ~
I just kind of opened up and said, 'I feel like a rag doll. I have hair and makeup people coming to my house every day and putting me in new, uncomfortable, weird dresses and expensive shoes, and I just shut down and raise my arms up for them to get the dress on, and pout my lips when they need to put the lipstick on.'
~By Jennifer Lawrence ~
I love to cook comfort food. I'll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it.
~By Reese Witherspoon ~
I was never directly pressured by peers, but by surrounding myself with others who were experimenting with smoking provided a certain false comfort.
~By Christy Turlington ~
Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterward.
~By Georges Bernanos ~
There is a comfort zone of knowing where things are going and having characters in place, but the action gets more and more dramatic and is very challenging to describe.
~By Jerry B. Jenkins ~
If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness.
~By Les Brown ~
I was very, very large as a kid and never athletic, and my home life was a little upside down and I never felt comfortable.
~By Brad Garrett ~
When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.
~By Malcolm Forbes ~
I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories.
~By Barbara Kruger ~
The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.
~By John Owen ~
Comfort rules. You want to be able to sit in a good chair comfortably for a few hours and be able to talk and enjoy a glass of wine. There's nothing worse than sitting in an uncomfortable chair.
~By Amanda Pays ~
Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about.
~By Laura Dern ~
There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.
~By Bernard de Mandeville ~
Bullfights are hugely popular because you can sit comfortably with a hot dog and possibly watch a man die. It won't be me, but I can sit comfortably and watch it.
~By Albert Brooks ~
I find it almost comforting to count calories, because it makes me conscious of what I'm eating. But on Super Bowl Sunday, I thought, 'Surrender to it. It's nacho time.' Then I ate nothing but Doritos all day.
~By Kristen Bell ~
Extreme Makeover... they help people that are uncomfortable in their own skin. They really change lives.
~By Steven Hill ~
The funny thing is, strangers still seem to feel comfortable coming up to me and saying things, but now usually it's because they recognize me, and they say nice things.
~By Todd Solondz ~
But I don't think that it's a form of family that I would be comfortable in. I've found a way to this character and this family, but I still believe that a marriage is between two people and not seven or three.
~By Jeanne Tripplehorn ~
There was a lot of Southern Baptist preachers and some yelling ones but mostly we had a pastor who didn't scream and I found a lot of comfort and joy and peace as a child hearing the Bible.
~By Victoria Jackson ~
I know many beautiful people and their lives are just so terrible. They feel so uncomfortable with themselves. Being comfortable is not about what you look like, but how you feel.
~By Monica Bellucci ~
The only animals I'm not comfortable with are parrots, but I'm learning as I go. I'm getting better and better at 'em. I really am.
~By Steve Irwin ~
At least for me personally, I've always tried to do a really good job every day, with each interview, and treat each interview seriously, and make the person I'm speaking with feel comfortable, hopefully make it an ideal experience.
~By Katie Couric ~
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