Top 404 Sake Quotes

I’ve seen what can happen to an actor when he’s just working for the sake of working. All of a sudden it’s ten years later, your career’s happened, and you haven’t had any control.

I’m a right pain in the hole for my agent. I won’t take certain parts if I think they’re offensive or banal. For instance, I won’t do a film if I think it’s full of violence for violence’s sake, or a television drama if I don’t think it’s intelligent writing.

Career wise, I’m looking into different opportunities to do a TV show, but in some way that’s not a goal in itself. To me, the goal is creating content and doing fun stuff that I’m proud to show. I don’t want to do a TV show for the sake of doing it.

Getting better from depression demands a lifelong commitment. I’ve made that commitment for my life’s sake and for the sake of those who love me.

Therefore, every country has to understand that fighting against international terrorism is not for the sake of the United States, but for the sake of themselves, and, to a larger extent, in the name of stability of international relations.

In my mind, the plays I was writing were extreme examples of art for art’s sake. I didn’t necessarily think that other people would love them, though I thought they probably would.

It’s a very slippery slope when you have a world champion boxer fighting an MMA guy for the sake of money, and he can’t knock him out in the first round. He has to make sure he carries him a little bit.

For heaven’s sake, when you see the enemy attacking, you pick up the pitchfork, and you enlist everybody you see. You don’t stand around arguing about who’s responsible, or who’s going to pay.

You can’t have a beauty scene for beauty’s sake.

It’d be disingenuous to say I don’t like attention – I’m an actor for God’s sake – and it’s flattering and all, but attention was never my big goal. I just like to work and have a good time.

Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.

Memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it’s about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.

It’s always better to treat those with whom you disagree with compassion – if not for compassion’s sake, then because it makes it much more likely that they’ll actually be willing to listen to what you have to say.

Art for art’s sake, money for God’s sake.

To me, there’s no point in having confrontation for the sake of it.

All the punishment in the world will not reform a man, unless he knows that he who inflicts it upon him does it for the sake of reformation, and really and truly loves him, and has his good at heart. Punishment inflicted for gratifying the appetite makes man afraid but debases him.

I don’t want to do something for the sake of doing it. I want it to be a great role and I want it to be really funny – or dramatic – but I mean I want it to be something really, really special.

I am tired of starring in those films where I am being a part just for the sake of it.

I do this for the sake of myself. It’s a selfish process. I don’t really have any expectations from anyone for your comments or your reviews or your previews.

A sex scene is gratuitous when it only exists for its own sake.

For the sake of future generations, we must continue to work together to realise a world without nuclear weapons.

I am 58. That is pretty old, for God’s sake. I look pretty good for my age, and I am enjoying that.

Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its own sake.

I feel the way I always do about sequels. If there’s an idea that excites me enough, and it feels like a way to do something new and fresh, then great. But I don’t ever want to do a sequel just for the sake of doing a sequel.

Admitting, however, for the sake of argument, that I am prime and sole minister in this country, am I, therefore, prime and sole minister of all Europe? Am I answerable for the conduct of other countries as well as for that of my own?

When I don’t have a movie, I don’t take a job just for the sake of working. I just sit it out until I find something I’m passionate about.

I don’t know what reception I’m at, but for God’s sake give me a gin and tonic.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

I realized I could do music for the sake of music, not the other things that come with it. That was a major shift.

It’s important that adults get along with each other for the child’s sake, and that is our situation.

Violent predators are not like the rest of us. They kill for fun, for sport, for the sake of it. To compare them to animals is an insult to animals. To expect that we can rehabilitate them assumes a will to change.

For the sake of calm in the country, I am ready to sacrifice my own sanity.

Poiret made clothes for individual customers, but I wouldn’t like to make a dress just for its own sake.

I am an ambitious person, but I am not ambitious in the sense that I want jobs only for the sake of them… I am here to do things I think are worthwhile. I am always careful that the political positions I take are consistent with good policy. I would not want to be prime minister of Australia at any price.

The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.

I think the Internet is a key driver of opening up opportunities, which impacts many things, including development – I will repeat that I am not a fan of looking at technology or the Internet in Africa through the lens of development – we love the Internet for sake of the Internet.

The lockdown has taught people how to make do with what they have and how to consume responsibly. For the sake of our environment and our very own holistic wellness, I hope this wellness trend of sustainability continues to grow and spread.

If philosophy is to be a valuable part of life, we have to appreciate it for its own sake, and not just for what it’s done for us lately.

I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters… but for the sake of seeing and speaking with the world’s greatest living man – Alexander von Humboldt.

We’re not in hardware for hardware’s sake. We’re in hardware to be able to express all our platform and productivity software in a way that’s unique.

I never did films for the sake of money alone or for any favour or obligation.

Every generation has an obligation to leave its children in a better position than it inherited. Our representatives in Washington are breaking faith with that covenant. America must reduce its federal spending and accumulation of debt for the sake of generations to come.

Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn’t trying to get an audience just for the sake of it.

Most centrist Democrats… try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy.

I personally don’t feel the need to be radical for its own sake, but I probably couldn’t if I tried anyway.

Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

We are not in Afghanistan for the sake of the education policy in a broken 13th-century country. We are there so the people of Britain and our global interests are not threatened.

I don’t like revealing skin for the sake of revealing skin.

In Paris, I was really singing for the sake of living. But eventually people said, ‘Keep going; you’ve got a great voice,’ and I started having confidence in my voice all of a sudden. That’s when I started creating my own music.

The captains of industry do not keep on working for the sake of making money, but for the love of completing a job successfully.

Certainly, I don’t believe in rebellion for its own sake. But I think if you strive to do something in an individualistic way, you just become a rebel by definition.

Accolades and lists may tell us about accomplishments, but life is meant to be experienced, not just accomplished. It’s like the difference between reading books for the sake of reading and reading books just to get a good grade.

I’m not interested in more money for the sake of it. You’re aware that if you’re nicking all the budget, somebody else is getting threepence ha’penny, or the production values aren’t going to be so high.

I would never want to do something just for the sake of being independent or for the sake of doing big films. I’m always surprised by the material I’m attracted to. And that’s how I like it. I like to be surprised.

I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o’clock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill.

I’m just excited that I get to put out the music I love versus music just for the sake of it.