James Baldwin Quotes

The biggest thing for me is I don't want to let people down. At the same time I love things that scare me and challenge me. If your job doesn't do that and doesn't excite you there's no point in doing it.

When you describe passion at any age, passion is derived from everything, from the people you work with to enjoying the last four years.

I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free. inscription on Kazantakis's tomb in Heraklion, Greece

I only know how to play two ways: reckless and abandon.

Brilliantly, ecstatically, irrepressibly. This is the way to burn

And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.

I find faith in human perseverance, even as the universe throws challenge after challenge our way.

We were taught never to give up, never to passively accept fate, but to exhaust every last ounce of will and hope in the face of any challenge.

The tunnels may be long, and twisted, and dark; but you are supposed to go through them.

Never give up on something you love

The challenge of our time is to find a journey worthy of your heart and your soul.

For every mountain, there is a miracle.

One of the inspiring things about Susan Sarandon career is that there's a quality of real fearlessness in it - you seem to be in it for the challenge and the experience.

When you're acting you put so much of yourself into working. As much fun as it is, it's still hard work and it's still a challenge.

In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn...to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.

To do something for someone or something you loved-England or Shakespeare or a dog or the Hodbins or history-wasn't a sacrifice at all. Even if it cost you your freedom, your life, your youth.

If you are without impulses, you are, to a degree, without joy..." 469

Working with talented people and challenging myself as an actor [excites me].

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. She will have nothing from him who will not give her all. She knows that his pretended love serves but to betray. But when once the fierce heat of her quenchless, lustrous eyes have burned into the victim's heart, he will know no other smile but hers.

Embrace fanaticism. Harness joie de vivre by pursuing insane interests, consuming passions, and constant sources of gratification that do not depend on the approval of others

Hope and change are hard-fought things.

I love the challenge.

During times of challenge, what you have faith in is what determines what the challenge will turn into. Have faith in the reality of the challenge, and it will birth more challenges. Have faith in the reality of miracles, and the challenge will transform into something else.

I think it is good that fashion is a challenge because when something is a challenge, you want to do it better.