James Callis Quotes

#1. Life in the theatre isn't necessarily when you get money from performing. It isn't when you sign a contract. It isn't even when you are in a play. It's when you understand it. If you understand it, you'll know why you want to act.

Stella Adler

#2. 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

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

James Callis

#4. 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.'

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#5. I looked at her without replying. For me it had been more like being a passenger in a car that was going out of control. For three months we'd been swerving across the road, missing light poles and oncoming vehicles. Now the car was under control again,

Jane Smiley

#6. 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

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

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#8. When I first came into this world, Elvis was already fat.

Jane Wagner

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

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#10. Jokes are very curious things psychologically.

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#11. 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.'

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#12. 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?'

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#13. Thus, the photons which constitute a ray of light behave like intelligent human beings: out of all possible curves they always select the one which will take them most quickly to their goal.

Max Planck

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

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

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

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

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

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#19. I grew up on Shane movie and my mother loves it and I've watched it hundreds of times.

Peter Sohn

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

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#21. Jane Austen is very amusing.

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#22. 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