Capricious Quotes

For a long while I wasn`t sure I was going to make acting my main focus professionally. I was interested in music, painting and other creative pursuits. I did the movies with a little more capricious an attitude; I wasn`t so seriously minded as a total professional. Then came The Iceman Cometh. We had eight weeks of rehearsals and then we shot for two weeks. So it was almost the reverse of how most movies are made. During those eight weeks, I was sitting around with these great actors and this great director, just shooting the breeze and, of course, going over the material. I was also getting to know how other actors of that caliber work on things like this. It was very enlightening. After that experience, I decided, `Hey, I can do this. And I can do this for the rest of my life in a professional way.`

A lot of people are taking those risks on the basis of something so unconsidered that it`s completely capricious. That`s one of the reasons why actors are not respected anymore as actors.

Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you`re just trying to get in and you`re given so little time to get in gently, but it`s always hard.

I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.

Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

Unless this is done, we shall be liable to be ruled by an arbitrary and capricious armed tyranny, whose word and will must be law.

You`re being told that the TV rating system is enough to protect children, that it`s ultimately up to parents to do something about the problem caused by Hollywood. This to me is an amazing dodge. The ratings system has been an inconsistent, inaccurate, arbitrary and capricious mess.

These guys had not really done anything wrong. They did everything they were supposed to. Lightning is such a capricious instrument.