Words matter. These are the best Tom Shadyac Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
You send a message in everything you do. I’m always very conscious about what ideas and what energy I put out there.
I’m from the Madeleine L’Engle school. The more she delves into science, the more she knows there’s a creator who’s behind these amazing laws, these amazing events. The symmetry of nature, the structure and order of it.
Definition is the death of discovery.
To me, ‘Ace Ventura’ is as scriptural and sacred as any movie I’ve ever done because it’s childlike.
There is no ‘I.’ That’s an illusion we’ve got to get beyond.
Show business is part of a larger culture, a world-wide culture that must make up to the fact that the accumulation of things doesn’t make a life necessary any happier or purposeful.
I was raised Catholic.
You can’t sow an apple seed and expect to get an avocado tree. The consequences of your life are sown in what you do and how you behave.
The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; it’s love – that one principle.
Our culture does not teach us this, but what happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas. If you cheat in Vegas, it comes right home with you. If you cheat in Vegas, you walk home as a cheater. You lie awake at a night a cheater. You cannot escape it.
The second we define someone as a Democrat or Republican, it creates a whole set of limitations.
I believe our emotional tension can manifest itself physically.
I think true success is intrinsic… It’s love. It’s kindness. It’s community.
Communism didn’t work because people weren’t ready for it, it was corrupt, and because it squelched individualism.
I don’t want to be your hero. I want to be your brother. You know, I want to be your family member. I want to be your equal.
My dad’s half-Lebanese, my mom is full Lebanese. I’m three-quarters Lebanese. Irish-Lebanese.
One of the challenges of the church is to accept humanity for all it is.
There’s one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks every day. Now, this is a law that’s evolved over billions of years, and the law is this: Nothing in nature takes more than it needs.
Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.
I hope people start to look at their lives as the most powerful, creative act they will ever offer this world.
I love Frank Capra. He believed in the goodness of people and one man’s ability to fight and often triumph.
I was paid $8 or $9 million for ‘Evan Almighty.’ I didn’t want that money.
If you look at the Bible as a whole, it’s redemptive and beautiful, and it’s God’s love story to mankind.
I think laughter is a sacred act.
Truth can be a matter of perspective, but I also think there’s a truth that exists, that there are laws to the universe the way Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King believed.
