Onstage or in films, you do affect peoples’ lives, and sometimes that’s very gratifying. But still, there’s this little voice that says you should be doing something that matters.
Especially where financial matters are concerned, when it comes to dissolving a marriage, any dissembling at all is strictly against the law – on penalty of perjury. You need to disclose fully and factually, which is precisely what the discovery process is all about.
The world doesn’t revolve around me anymore. Now it’s all about this little baby. I come home after a rough day, I see her and she smiles and nothing but that matters. I know that sounds really cliche but it’s the truth.
We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me.
I can honestly say I’ve never thought for a second about whether a character reflects poorly on any group. All that matters to me is that the character is true to my belief in who he or she is.
The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn’t the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it.
It’s not the hair on your head that matters. It’s the kind of hair you have inside.
Modelling is only about the look. In acting, it’s the feel that matters.
The most important thing with children is to give them your time. Actually, that’s all that matters.
The long, forensic interview really matters.
The only thing that matters is that we stand firm.
Be fair in all your dealings, may it be in your family or in your business. At the end of it all, what matters is not how much money you make but how honest you are.
If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years.
I’m not involved in light, frivolous matters. I’m not involved in fringe or side issues. I’m involved in serious issues.
I’m a very private person, so obviously I don’t enjoy talking about more personal matters.
What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.
All the best reasons for going into politics never really change: the desire for glory and fame and the chance to do something that really matters, that will make life better for a lot of people.
As long as we win, that’s all that matters and everything else will take care of itself.
I don’t want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress.
I’m all about thoughtful gifts. If you put thought behind it – it could be $5 – but if there’s thought behind it, I think that’s what matters.
Everybody, not just stars, should take up the responsibility of giving back to society. It doesn’t matter how much you give, but what really matters is if you are willing to give something.
Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn’t matter.
I think what really matters is the support you get in football regardless of the uniform you wear. Some girls feel good playing in long shorts, while some of them feel good playing in tighter shorts. I’m not against it. It’s obvious that women have to explore that female side of things, and I don’t think that’s a mistake.
Everybody who I ever cared about has told me that they like my music: Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Al Green, The Spinners, Smokey Robinson. Everybody that matters.
I am blessed to have a family like mine. If you have a good family then nothing else really matters.
At the end of the day, if you feel like you’re a good person, and your intentions are good, then that’s all that matters.
My dad used to have an expression – ‘It is the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they are about to do, and thinks it still matters.’
Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father’s time, a politician’s home was still his castle.
Every single minute matters, every single child matters, every single childhood matters.
The combat environment has the effect of flattening out civilian identities. If you’re young or old, or a graduate from Harvard or the son of a farmer from Alabama, or if you’re gay or straight or good-looking or ugly: none of those things matters much in combat, as long as you can conform to the group expectations.
Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit.
It was weird that most people knew me as someone let go from ‘SNL.’ I had the best time there, and in retrospect, it was the perfect amount of time. The only thing that matters is what you do with yourself in that moment after. If you decide, ‘I’m the girl who was fired from ‘SNL,’ you’re just that.
Let discernment in matters of fashion and entertainment determine who should get the vote, and half the country would be disenfranchised.
It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use.
We are fortunate to have collectively built a culture that matters, a brand that matters, a business that matters. It is impossible to state in words how much this team means to me, how much Hulu means to me.
I’m a big fan of unflinching drama and bold drama. If you shy away from dark subject matters, there’s only certain places for TV drama to go. If there are shows that can break through that and be brave, those are the shows that I personally enjoy watching. I try and do work that I would watch.
Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.
People say to me, ‘What are you going to be doing in five years?’ The thing is, I don’t care! It’s what I’m doing today that matters.
The journey matters as much as the destination. By engaging in the moment on set, I’ve stopped rushing and now find pleasure in the collaborative process – the characters, the costumes – rather than worrying about the finished product.
The way in which you carry yourself, even when seated at a desk, matters.
It’s not the destination that matters. It’s the change of scene.
I don’t think it matters where I came from any more.
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
My dad told me when I went into high school, ‘It’s not what you do when you walk in the door that matters. It’s what you do when you walk out.’ That’s when you’ve made a lasting impression.
The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
The first Elizabeth film was an absolute travesty historically. It really was sloppy. Things like ‘The Other Boleyn Girl’ and ‘The Tudors,’ people’s perception is distorted because of these. It matters to me as a historian, because I spend my life trying to get it right.
You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don’t have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success – none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.
We must study love the way we study anything else that matters.
There will always be nations. The United States will last a long, long time, I believe. France and Germany and Japan, China, other nations, they’re going to exist. But they’re losing their significance and ability to deal with certain matters.
It is only those who believe in their ability who shine when it matters.
But the fact is, no matter how good the teacher, how small the class, how focused on quality education the school may be none of this matters if we ignore the individual needs of our students.
Politicians – in both political parties – spend too much money. And they forget to focus on what matters most: fixing the economic mess they created and putting people back to work.
I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it’s not imagination. It’s just a way of watching.
My job as a pollster is to understand what really matters.
You can wish as hard as you like but all that really matters is the shape you’re in on the day of the race. I’ve always felt these really big races aren’t necessarily won by whoever is the fastest. They’re won by the athlete who is the smartest and in the best shape on the day.
As long as I’m a good person and I do things from the heart, that’s all that matters.
