Jaye Davidson Quotes

The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.

Everyone deals with temptation. It's just there.

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.

We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.

There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.

Had I done the movies that were offered to me in my prime, at the height of my career, I would have been alongside the likes of Denzel Washington. But, I chose not to do those movies.

The big rule is that you must never get mixed up with a married man - never even look sideways at another woman's fella. Boy, I really was terrific at obeying that rule, wasn't I?

You know what, life is full of temptations.

As the world's getting filled with temptations, we're getting a bit frivolous and a bit fickle.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.

I do turn down things that I feel aren't right for me, like when it's some kind of adolescent thing that might typecast me, but I'm not worried about it.

Very few movies I've done I regret being involved in.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.

The hardest thing for me is restraint. I see fresh beans and ramps, and I start to quiver.

There have been films I have said no to and there are roles that I wish I had done.

I know the struggle - trust me. I know how hard it is for us to say 'no' to a lot of things that get offered.

After 'Champion,' I got like 20,000 psychopath roles! And they wanted me to strip and show my body in every film. But I have tried to balance my roles.

My whole life, I've been a Temptation.

If you're going to lick the icing off somebody else's cake you won't be nourished and it won't do you any good,--or you might find the cake had caraway seeds and you hate them.