Callis Quotes

#1. You can go lots of places as Gaius Baltar that other people aren't allowed to pursue.

James Callis

#2. If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly.

William Shakespeare

#3. Everybody has to be reminded that there's another way to be. Another more mysterious, unpredictable way to be that's not necessarily based upon contrivances.

Stanley Crouch

#4. There wasn't very much going on in London about five years ago, and I just took a ticket on spec and went to Los Angeles. I think it was in my second week that I auditioned for 'Battlestar.'

James Callis

#5. But we need to be careful.

Cynthia Shepp

#6. Year by year, I see more and more darkness creep into their world. They're slowly going beyond cold, to a place that makes me scared for the Psy race as a whole.

Nalini Singh

#7. Jokes are very curious things psychologically.

James Callis

#8. My first show, in England, was called 'Soldier, Soldier.'

James Callis

#9. It is such a great opportunity to be the face of a brand which I remember wearing as a little kid and running around in half-naked. Bonds is now getting very serious about fitness, and their range is amazing. It's beautiful and comfy.

Courtney Eaton

#10. Whatever you are doing, that which makes you feel the most alive ... that is where God is.

Ignatius Of Loyola

#11. One of my kids keeps on saying that he wants to be a paleontologist, but first he wants to make a time machine, so he can go back and save the dinosaurs.

James Callis

#12. Revenge for a terror attack is ideal for Putin's model. His propaganda machine will be filled with scenes of crash victims if [Vladimir] Putin sees the need for a larger war to stoke his domestic support again as the Russian economy teeters.

Garry Kasparov

#13. I understood now: how nothing looked more beautiful than that scar of his, that borderline that separated what Jacob could have been had he stayed in that orphanage from who he is.

Justina Chen

#14. At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

Orhan Pamuk

#15. When I was at drama school in the U.K., I was there for two and a half years, and we did one week of television and film. It's right before you leave. It's like, 'We've taught you Chekhov and Shakespeare; you are likely to be in a washing-up soap-liquid commercial.'

James Callis

#16. I think that there should be a Gaius Baltar Award for Moral Cowardice given out to people every year.

James Callis

#17. On a personal note, myself, I find religion - I can understand it, I can understand why we have it, as a kind of force on the planet. And I also at the same time think it's ludicrous.

James Callis

#18. My Latin education teaches me that religion comes from religio, which means, 'to bind.' To bind with rope. And that's all it means. So whenever I hear somebody go, 'I feel so religious right now!' I'm like, 'Well, you're tying yourself up in knots, are you?'

James Callis

#19. Anybody who has political ambition has an Achilles heel.

James Callis

#20. When we prioritize and focus and that becomes the anchor the relationship becomes the anchor and it trumphs everything else than it's at once freeing and anxiety relieving because the connection itself feeds empowerment and self-worth and self-esteem so it takes away the anxiety of raising a child.

Shefali Tsabary

#21. You're always concerned for your character. You should be.

James Callis

#22. Your eternal destiny will not be the result of chance but of choice.

Randall K. Bennett

#23. No one can hide from their fate without a price.

Soman Chainani

#24. I think the level of devotion some sci-fi fans display turns other people off.

James Callis

#25. You don't want to diminish anybody's pain and suffering.

James Callis

#26. When somebody says, 'Action,' I act. When they say, 'Cut,' that's my job. I've done it.

James Callis

#27. The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence.

William Henry Hudson

#28. Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow,
Bright blue his jacket is, and his boots are yellow.
None has ever caught him yet, for Tom, he is the Master:
His songs are stronger songs, and his feet are faster.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#29. I was convinced that I was going to be onstage for the rest of my life.

James Callis

#30. Jane Austen is very amusing.

James Callis

#31. The greatest thrilling experience that you and I can ever have in our hearts will be on those occasions when deep down we receive the witness that our acts and our labors are approved by our Heavenly Father.

Charles A. Callis

#32. I went to study English for two reasons. Principally because when I was in university, studying drama wasn't considered an option. You couldn't get a degree course for it. And so many plays and things that I was interested in landed themselves in a broader spectrum of literature.

James Callis

#33. when we sit with discomfort without trying to fix it, when we stay present to the pain of disapproval or betrayal and let it soften us, these are the times that we connect with bodhichitta. Tapping

Pema Chodron