Matthew Fox Quotes - Page 3

The prophets preach . . . that pleasure, not will-power and coercion, is how you most deeply transform people.

I'm either going to have the career I want doing films, or I'll do something else - I'll be gone.

I'm really enjoying the process of learning to fly. How it will fit into my life down the road - I'm looking forward to discovering that.

I turn a lot of stuff down - big, big movies, the kind I wouldn't want to go to the cinema to see.

Big-heartednes s is the most essential virtue on the spiritual journey.

I think that there's a hidden darkness in all of us!

Im not really a tropical paradise kind of person.

There is no end to the beauty for the person who is aware. Even the cracks between the sidewalk contain geometric patterns of amazing beauty.

Having a studio tell you when to jump and how high eight months of the year for six years is not a relationship I want to get into again.

After 'Lost', I never need to take a job for the money again.

A lot of people want to see this idealized version of heroism, all pretty and perfect, and I'm not interested in playing the goody-goody hero at all.

Humor and paradox are often the only ways to respond to life's sorrow with grace.

I enjoy a four-seasonal climate and wide-open spaces, so being on an island 2,500 miles into the South Pacific made me feel a little claustrophobic.

Cars are part of our genetic makeup. It's unavoidable.

Pain destroys the illusions of false, that is, elitist pleasures. It burns from the inside out. It, therefore, sensitizes us to what is truly beautiful in life.

When the Sacred Masculine is combined with the sacred feminine inside each of us, we create the 'sacred marriage' of compassion and passion in ourselves.

Do not confuse beauty with beautiful. Beautiful is a human judgment. Beauty is All. The difference is everything.

I'm an actor. I try to play a character in a really cool story, the very best I can.

I'll put it to you this way: I never, ever think about the things that I get involved with on a macro means-to-an-ends scale.

I'm not saying I want a film career because I think I'm too good for television. I'm simply saying I want more control over my life.