Making films has never just been a job to me; it is my life. I have some interests outside of acting – I sing and I’ve written books, for instance – but acting is what keeps me going: it’s what I do; it gives life purpose. – Christopher Lee
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose. – Charlie Chaplin
I think people tend to fall into their careers sometimes, and maybe that’s a lucky path to follow because you actually end up doing your purpose. – Arija Bareikis
I think we’ll see, not only with Glass, but the watch wearables, with the contact lens, that each of these things have their own best purpose, but it will take more on our part and society’s part to figure out what that is. – Astro Teller
My purpose is to have American Jews look away from the success story with which they’ve cheered themselves up, and to have them remember the classical tradition, whatever it is. – Arthur Hertzberg
Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose. – Andy Goldsworthy
Studies indicate that these children are more susceptible to advertising and even less likely to understand the purpose of this advertising. – Bob Filner
I gained the weight on purpose for ‘Little Nicky,’ and it was one of those cases where I’d done a few roles where I looked the same way, and I wanted to be the roommate because I thought that was the funniest part for me. – Allen Covert
A gentleman is never rude except on purpose – I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me. – Christopher Hitchens
So that studio served its purpose, and still is working very well for other people right now. – Billy Sherwood
The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give. – Alexander Alekhine
Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make. – Alain Resnais
I’m not against screens, or new songs, or innovation. I just don’t like the gimmicks. I want to know when worship is over that that leader’s sole purpose was to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ. – Charles R. Swindoll
There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it? – Barbara Ehrenreich
The ruling idea of the politician – stated rather bluntly – is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them. – Auberon Herbert
There is already a mountain of evidence that Saddam Hussein is gathering weapons for the purpose of using them. And adding additional information is like adding a foot to Mount Everest. – Ari Fleischer
One of the things I realized… is how few success stories there are in websites or products or businesses that exist primarily for an altruistic purpose. – Andrew Mason
I was wrapping up my stint on ‘Daredevil’ co-writing with Andy Diggle during the Shadowland story, when Marvel asked if I was interested in doing something else with DD but a bit different. When they explained the purpose of the ‘Season One’ books, I was intrigued – I’m a big advocate of books for people new to the medium – and said yes. – Antony Johnston
America’s highways, roads, bridges, are an indispensable part of our lives. They link one end of our nation to the other. We use them each and every day, for every conceivable purpose. – Christopher Dodd
In the original ‘Star Wars’ movie, there is a small toaster-sized and shaped robot on the Death Star that guides Stormtroopers to where they need to go. I always liked that robot because I could imagine how to build it – and it served a real purpose. – Colin Angle
When Edna O’Brien’s first novel, ‘The Country Girls,’ was published in 1960, her family and neighbors in the small Irish village where she was born tossed copies into a bonfire expressly set for that horrifying purpose. – Alan Cheuse
I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment. – Benjamin Disraeli
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose – and you allow him to make war at pleasure. – Abraham Lincoln
If you can take my tax money and assure me that it’ll go to the right purpose, that it will help the poor, then fine. But I’m not sure a lot of it does. In fact, I know a lot of it doesn’t. – Bill Bennett
Because of my Calvinistic upbringing, I was trained to think that what you do has to have a purpose. – Anselm Kiefer
The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. – Aldous Huxley
The way that the robotics market is going to grow, at least in the home, is that we’ll have a number of different special purpose robots. – Colin Angle