Rachel Weisz Quotes

Hey, any time you're throwing bodies over board it is to save yourself.

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

What would it take for me to eat human flesh? If that was the only way to stay alive, I would. I would eat anything.

If this gesture was the way of getting out of the penitentiary, I'd do it.

Nations like individuals, when driven to choose between desperate courses, might at times be compelled to take the chance of destruction, often destroying themselves or suffering irreparable harm.

Early in my career I had to be a goon to survive. I did everything I had to do and probably some things I shouldn't have.

The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.

At the core of life is a hard purposefulness, a determination to live.

I'm alive and I want to keep living.

I believe I could commit a crime. We all can. It depends on which situations we find ourselves in. In despair, I would steal food if my children were hungry.

The issue for my character, and the issue of the show is, how dirty do your feet have to get without suffocating yourself in the mud in order to get an inch of what you really want done?

In the Middle East, a nation whose youngsters are not willing to kill and get killed for it is a nation on borrowed time. It will not last long.

A starving man thinks first of satisfying his hunger before anything else. He will sell his liberty and all for the sake of getting a morsel of food.

Rats desert a sinking ship.

Life comes forth for no other reason than to be and make more life. It will fight and crawl and do anything in its power to live, and once alive, it will stand against all to remain alive. Its existence is its own argument.

I do what I've got to do to survive, to keep my teeth in my head, and my head on my shoulders. I apologize to whoever can't put that together and understand that.

Poverty diminishes confidence. So if someone offers you a grain store, even if you really need a plough, you take what is offered to you.

Survival is important, art is secondary. If you aren't alive, how can you create art?

The meekest of animals will fight bravely when it is backed against a wall, for it has nothing left to lose. A poor man is more deadly than a rich man because he puts less value on his own life.

Survival in the conventional sense of the term means to continue to live, but also to live after death.

We insist, it seems, on living.

If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart.

A moral choice in its basic terms appears to be a choice that favors survival: a choice made in favor of life.

Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.

I have to act to live.