J. Courtney Sullivan Quotes

Being quiet is comfortable. Keeping things the way they've been is comfortable. And all comfort has done is maintain the status quo.

Sometimes we get comfortable with the status quo, even when the status quo isn’t any good.

Keep what you have; the known evil is best.

I think at its most mature, love is a very bourgeois state. There is something about luxuriating in the nest of love that people fall into naturally.

I reached that day that I always thought might happen, where I say to myself I don't want to do this anymore. I'm looking for some stability. I want to stay home.

What really makes me happy now is my home. I know that I have that to lose. But I don't see losing it. And I don't care if I never do another movie. And I don't care if I never get back on the road. I like to think that I'm gonna do that. But if I don't, I can live with that.

They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving.

Humans are designed to seek comfort and order, and so if they have comfort and order, they tend to plant themselves, even if their comfort isn't all that comfortable. And even if they secretly want for something better.

Happiness," said he, "must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without uncertainty.

Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It's a symptom of security.

I really have the American dream licked.

There's a real danger in trying to stay king of the mountain. You stop taking risks, you stop being as creative, because you're trying to maintain a position. Apart from anything else that really takes the fun out of it.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

I'm so happy with my family, my career and my friends, and I'd like for them to be here forever, so I guess loss is what scares me the most.

I was always interested in doing it, but I was so content with my life that I didn't really go after it.

The tendency is to keep doing things the way you have done them.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.

I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity.

Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.

There's no point thinking, 'Well, my life's certainly worked out, I've got all the answers.' It would be wrong for me to say that I don't get seduced by certain things. That things don't become tempting.

I think comfort, stability, and love are the things that really let me be happy. Deep down inside I'm a little boring, I guess.

When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, 'I have arrived.' Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.

I've got a great family and a beautiful house. I feel very lucky as far as my lifestyle is concerned. I'm not really interested in fame and all its trappings.

One day I will settle down, when I have achieved everything I wanted.