Matthew Fox People Quotations

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.

Sometimes people look to others for answers they can find within themselves. I don't really want the responsibility of being the guy they look to.

I put a lot of pressure on myself and I think I am quite... well, intense about driving other people.

But, sooner or later I'd love to do a comedy. I mean I think that, you know, people don't think that that's in my wheelhouse because I've sort of played a lot of dramatic stuff and that's certainly a side of myself that I want at some point in the right context, in the right stuff, that I find really funny.

I think when people watch this show and get to the end of the episode, they're dying to find out what's going to happen next week and they really don't have any idea.

We've been 40 days on this island dealing with very intense things and not a lot of room for romance. Anytime people are in extreme circumstances, there has to be moments where people need physical contact and a feeling of being safe.

People ought to tithe because they belong to a community that they believe in and they want to see prosper. Tithing is a form of voluntary taxation. In our culture, we should spend more time thinking in communitarian terms about taxation.

I want to give people a sense of who he is, who he was, and how he dealt with the situation. It's an honor to do him and his story. I'm hoping to do my part justice. I'll leave everything on the field as they say.

It's cool. You get a lot of people you don't usually see together. We're excited to see how it's going to play out.

Soul is our appetite, driving us to eat from the banquet of life. People filled with the hunger of soul take food from every dish before them, whether it be sweet or bitter.

The prophets preach . . . that pleasure, not will-power and coercion, is how you most deeply transform people.

To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people.