#or

But if you believe in Christ and that your main goal with your life is supposed to be to honor Him and do His will, then you don't have as much pressure as someone who bases all their happiness on whether they're a movie star. ↗

— Victoria Jackson

#believe #christ #goal #happiness #him

There was a lot of Southern Baptist preachers and some yelling ones but mostly we had a pastor who didn't scream and I found a lot of comfort and joy and peace as a child hearing the Bible. ↗

— Victoria Jackson

#bible #child #comfort #found #had

One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future. ↗

— Francois Jacob

#deepest #functions #future #living #living organisms

He was living in an age much more dangerous, more painful, much more on the edge than our own particular age. ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#dangerous #edge #living #more #much

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination. ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#am #capacity #i #i am #imagination

I had to think long and hard about what it would imply, what it would mean. Would it mean any alterations of one's lifestyle? Or, more than that, the way that people regarded you? The way they reacted to you if you had a Sir in front of your name? ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#any #front #had #hard #i

I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, 'Well if acting doesn't work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something.' Fortunately, the acting worked out. ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#always #become #degree #fortunately #gone

I would like to be as fit as I've always been. I've been blessed with good health, I've been blessed with stamina. Particularly for those great classical roles, you need an Olympian stamina. I, fortunately, have that. ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#been #blessed #classical #fit #fortunately

I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged. ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#am #any #conscious #fact #i

I've been a professional actor now for 38 years. A long time. And it's wonderful to earn your living doing something that you love. To think people actually give you money for it! ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#actually #been #doing #earn #give