John Boorman Quotes

You can't be two people in your brain, one rock dude and a dad - there's something in the middle of them, and that's really what you are and that's going to make you the best dad - not when you try to be one or the other.

The more I talk, the more I come out and people get to know who I am and what I'm about, it's only gonna help. And if you don't like me, hey, cool. Everything in life is 50/50. I accept the good and the bad and just move on.

To truly be committed to a life of honesty, love and discipline, we must be willing to commit ourselves to reality.

So I always think it's important to allow someone to reveal themself. If you notice something about someone that you like, it could really tell you something about who they are during a time of trial. The truth will come out.

There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them.

I think the currency of leadership is transparency. You've got to be truthful. I don't think you should be vulnerable every day, but there are moments where you've got to share your soul and conscience with people and show them who you are, and not be afraid of it.

One of the key elements is the ability to be honest with yourself.

I liked the fact that Lois was one person with Clark and another with Superman. I think that, as women, we do that a lot when we fall in love.

You've got to be who you are. You've got to be honest with people. If your views change on something, you've got to be willing to express it.

I think the day that I become comfortable doing interviews and going on talk shows is the day that I don't know what it is to be a human being anymore.

I wish that I wasn't such an odd mixture. I wish I was serious, but I do love high heels and romantic comedies: being in them and watching them.

You bring out a lot of your own thoughts and attitudes when acting. I think a great deal of it has to do with the inner you.

I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.

I try to put all I am as a person into what I do. My intelligence, my emotion. I've done that in everything.

In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.

If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.

Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through.

I think people who don't have conflict in their lives are just trying to please people and not really living life to the fullest.

I try to find what is closest to me in the character. There's many sides to personality, but it's a matter of, do you entertain those specific areas of your personality, or are you afraid to entertain them?

Be as you wish to seem.

I think people who meet me just pretty much get what I am about.

I've seen firsthand that being president doesn't change who you are. It reveals who you are.

I see people as being what their personality is at the moment of expression.

The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.

Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'