Tom Shadyac Quotes

Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.

I was paid $8 or $9 million for 'Evan Almighty.' I didn't want that money.

I come from a family of lawyers. I was expected to be a professional of some sort, not an artist. I was never uplifted for my art.

I don't have any interest in changing a system, because the system will simply get bucked back by people who haven't changed.

When you do something in a nonviolent way, people will die and there will be casualties. But you're taking a different point of view that has a power.

I wasn't paying enough attention to what my heart was telling me. When I paid attention and got the message, I could move forward and heal.

To me, 'Ace Ventura' is as scriptural and sacred as any movie I've ever done because it's childlike.

Communism didn't work because people weren't ready for it, it was corrupt, and because it squelched individualism.

The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; it's love - that one principle.

I don't want to be your hero. I want to be your brother. You know, I want to be your family member. I want to be your equal.

I don't consider anything I'm doing as generous. In the new model of the world, I hope people will consider whatever I'm doing as just normal.

The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We invented that.

What is it the child knows about happiness, passion, and play, that the adult forgets? Eastern

I think true success is intrinsic ... It's love. It's kindness. It's community.

the sad fact is that we would rather be distracted than disturbed. But

Facing my own death brought an instant sense of clarity and purpose.

Nothing in nature takes more than what it needs

Authenticity means to be the author of your own life.

As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy.

You send a message in everything you do. I'm always very conscious about what ideas and what energy I put out there.

If I end up homeless and penniless because of a shift in my behavior about sharing what's come to me, bring it on.

I've never been a Hollywood dropout.

Illnesses are often times a reflection of an emotional place that needs healing or attention.

I don't see making films to entertain and making films to inform as separate things.

I am part of a divine essence. I don't have to become anything. I already am.

I think laughter is a sacred act.

I hope people start to look at their lives as the most powerful, creative act they will ever offer this world.

Christ is in all, meaning that the divine spark is in all things.

If you look at the Bible as a whole, it's redemptive and beautiful, and it's God's love story to mankind.

If we exchange bombs for bread there will be less reason for wanting to kill us. I just want to have the conversation.

The mystics will tell you death is perfectly safe. A violent act will beget a violent act; it is simply a law.

You can't sow an apple seed and expect to get an avocado tree. The consequences of your life are sown in what you do and how you behave.

One of the challenges of the church is to accept humanity for all it is.

I believe our emotional tension can manifest itself physically.

My dad's half-Lebanese, my mom is full Lebanese. I'm three-quarters Lebanese. Irish-Lebanese.

I was taught in school that I have to look out for number one. That was against everything that I intuitively felt.

Love is the essential energy of the universe. It is the force that puts the stars in the firmament, and it makes the blood run through the veins.

I've been called crazy many times before.

There is no 'I.' That's an illusion we've got to get beyond.

We are what make up society.

Definition is the death of discovery.

I believe in unity, as opposed to division.

The second we define someone as a Democrat or Republican, it creates a whole set of limitations.

I was raised Catholic.

We started by asking what's wrong with the world, and we ended up discovering what's right with it.

What matters is who we are, not who we beat.

Death is not the enemy. A life lived without love is the enemy.

Technology is not good, it's neutral.

I love Frank Capra. He believed in the goodness of people and one man's ability to fight and often triumph.