Matthew Fox Quotations | Page 2

A lot of people want to see this idealized version of heroism, all pretty and perfect, and I'm not interested in playing the goody-goody hero at all.

I'll put it to you this way: I never, ever think about the things that I get involved with on a macro means-to-an-ends scale.

I'm an actor. I try to play a character in a really cool story, the very best I can.

Creation is all things and us. It is us in relationship with all things. All things, the ones we see and the ones we do not; the whirling galaxies and the wild suns, the black holes and the microorganisms, the trees and the stars, the fish and the whales - the molten lava and the towering snow-capped mountains, the children we give birth to and their children, and theirs, and theirs, and theirs.

We are in the cosmos and the cosmos is in us.

The only way to learn compassion is through your heart; you have to back up and pass through your own pain.

What is of most moment of compassion is not feelings of pity but feelings of togetherness.

By cutting ourselves off from the rest of creation, we are left bereft of awe and wonder and therefore of reverence and gratitude. We violate our very beings, and we have nothing but trivia to teach our young.

I'm sorry, but I can't make a movie with the blonde from 'ER' who is starring in every single bad romantic comedy.

I'm really enjoying the process of learning to fly. How it will fit into my life down the road - I'm looking forward to discovering that.