The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
Quentin Crisp
I think that, essentially, I`m a private person, and to reconcile that with being famous is a hard thing. So I`ve been trying to have my cake and eat it too - to have my character be famous yet still lead a normal life where I`m not trapped by fame and re...
Sacha Baron Cohen
[On why he turned down the chance to reprise his role in a sequel to Bubba Hotep]: Don Coscarelli is a very passionate filmmaker. We got to a few points that we couldn`t reconcile. I want to keep our friendship, so we parted ways. So I`m not part of that ...
Bruce Campbell
[on the ending of his role as Spike in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997) and "Angel" (1999)] "David [David Boreanaz] and I are from theater. We`re used to shows being really wonderful and then they`re over. You have to be able to reconcile that or everyth...
James Marsters
I`m a Zen-Buddhist student first, actor second. If I can`t reconcile the two lives, I`ll stop acting. I spend more time off-screen than on.
Peter Coyote
For thirty years people have been asking me how I reconcile X with Y! The truthful answer is that I don`t. Everything about me is a contradiction and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There i...
Orson Welles
The Occultists, however, know that the traditions of Esoteric Philosophy must be the right ones, simply because they are the most logical, and reconcile every difficulty.
Alexander Alexeyev
It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
Amos Bronson Alcott
There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to
Jane Austen
