Convincing Quotes

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(on creating a characterization) The intention is always the same. To try to discover life in its entirety, or at least create for yourself the illusion that you have, which might give you some chance of convincing other people of it. It`s the same thing each time, but it requires totally different work in the process of achieving that. You are set on a path that`s strewn with obstacles, but getting over them is the joy of the work. So it`s impossible to think in terms of difficulty: it all seems utterly impossible, but the pleasure is in trying to forge ahead anyway.

- Daniel Day-Lewis

I have nothing to complain about... except maybe people wondering if a queen like me can butch-it-up enough to play a convincing straight man.

- Rupert Everett

"I fail to understand why people would think I got a raw deal out of Krrish (2006), considering I was present all through the film, from the beginning till the end. And I don`t know where people get off really. `Krissh` has done a business of Rupees 150 crores. It`s popular and is almost giving `Superman` a run for its money, so what more convincing is required to get the point across? I`m very happy with the response I got fro the film. I`m happy with my role. I`ve learnt that you can`t always please everyone in any case. And `Krissh` is my moment of success; I will not allow anyone to take that away from me."

- Priyanka Chopra

I have to have a little bit of time to myself right before whatever it is that I have to do because most of the time I`m sitting in my head convincing myself to calm down, all right, show down.

- Christina Milian

I always admired Wonder Woman and the Incredible Hulk - but I don`t know if I`d be a very convincing hulk.

- Lucy Liu

Every one of us is different in some way, but for those of us who are more different, we have to put more effort into convincing the less different that we can do the same thing they can, just differently.

- Marlee Matlin

You know, I had my mother and my father convincing me that he would be going back to Hollywood and he`d be back with the actresses and dating them and that he wasn`t serious about me at all. So I had him saying one thing to me and my parents telling me something else.

- Priscilla Presley

I had a hell of a time convincing people I was gay - which was so annoying!

- Portia de Rossi

But after a few minutes of convincing myself that I really wanted to go - telling myself that I love skating and that my coach is there waiting for me - I would get up and go. And my mother would always get up and eat breakfast with me!

- Nancy Kerrigan

(the only acting advice he would give) What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?

- Laurence Olivier

I had never even thought I`d be an actress - I was supposed to be a lawyer. But the motivation is the same: when you act, you defend a role; you have to be convincing. It`s the same career.

- Anne Parillaud

He was a pretty cute kid, when it came to convincing a girl that what she really wanted was to stay home and to scrub floors. He didn`t know that he was a male chauvinist pig, but he was! (On her marriage to Bing Crosby)

- Kathryn Grant

What I can`t quite see at this stage is that the evidence, even to the president, seems to be that clear. And if it is that clear, I can`t understand why we are not capable of convincing our closest allies that given that evidence, they ought to join us in this effort.

- Lawrence Eagleburger

Her thoughts on why Star Trek: Nemesis (2002) failed at the box office: "I think the fans want to see the whole team in action, while that was very much Picard taking center stage. Also, I didn`t think Tom (Hardy) was at all convincing as a young Patrick (Stewart). Don`t get me wrong - he`s a great, great actor and a really lovely guy, but he didn`t look a bit like Patrick at all. They should have cast James Marsters. They auditioned him, you know. I think, physically, he was much more suitable for the part" (SFX magazine, Sept 2006).

- Marina Sirtis

The hardest part was convincing people that I was serious. The people were like `you want to do this again`?

- Rob Zombie

Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges.

- Scott Hamilton

Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.

- Oscar Wilde

He`s very alive in a scene. He`s a very good actor to act with. Even though through most of the picture he`s blind, there are many places early in the picture I got to be with him before he was blind. Like convincing him in the office to do the picture.

- Mark Rydell

I fail to understand why people would think I got a raw deal out of Krrish (2006), considering I was present all through the film, from the beginning till the end. And I don`t know where people get off really. `Krissh` has done a business of Rupees 150 crores. It`s popular and is almost giving `Superman` a run for its money, so what more convincing is required to get the point across? I`m very happy with the response I got fro the film. I`m happy with my role. I`ve learnt that you can`t always please everyone in any case. And `Krissh` is my moment of success; I will not allow anyone to take that away from me. (Stardust magazine, September 2006)

- Priyanka Chopra

The evidence is fairly convincing that smaller schools are more effective. At the district level there are some modest benefits of having a larger organization, but those are more than offset by the deficits of larger schools.

- Paul Petersen

When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and true maxim that `a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.` So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to his reason, and which, once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing him of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause is really a good one.

- Abraham Lincoln

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

- Jane Austen

I think anytime we can do anything for anyone it`s good. We just happened to be in a position where we could help out. '¦ Anything that has to do with family and kids, it doesn`t take much convincing for me.

- Jason Aldean

But at the same time, the commonplace statement about them is true: every character is the hero of his own story. Each has a justification for his actions that is convincing to him. It`s fun to give these people voices.

- Thomas Perry

Oh! too convincing - dangerously dear - In woman`s eye the unanswerable tear!

- Lord Byron

(Only her one-year-old daughter, Estella, who made her fourth trip to Paris this time, might take some convincing.) She fell asleep five minutes before the show, ... What can you expect?

- Collette Dinnigan

And in this respect, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a tragedy, a clash between one very powerful, very convincing, very painful claim over this land and another no less powerful, no less convincing claim.

- Amos Oz

It is really hard to make it convincing enough that you forget you are playing a video game.

- Tim Page

He was such a convincing liar that both parties are recruiting him to run for Congress.

- Argus Hamilton

What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one`s cards face up on the table?

- Jacques Lacan

I think we`re beginning to do it in a way that`s convincing our audience that we`re going to remain serious. It`s beginning to jell with people and it`s beginning to jell with us, too.

- Terry Moran

Part of the therapy is convincing the patient they are not talking too loudly. That`s how it feels at first.

- Ed Hardy

Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be done only on the basis of the most clear and convincing evidence that a proposed amendment is necessary.

- Al Mau

I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.

- Alan Loewenstein

The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.

- Alberto Madrigal

Religious freedom is too sacred a right to be restricted or prohibited in any degree without convincing proof that a legitimate interest of the state is in grave danger.

- Alex Cheung

Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.

- Alex Garwood

Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I`m optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history.

- Ali Aoun

Unless we repeal the illegal Byrd amendment, American exports will be vulnerable to retaliation, and the U.S. will continue to face a difficult task convincing other countries to make their laws comply with international rules.

- Alice Gilborn

Unless we repeal the illegal Byrd Amendment, American exports will be vulnerable to retaliation, and the U.S. faces a much greater task in convincing other countries to make their own laws compliant with international rules.

- Alice Gilborn

Then I sit down, work at it, because now I have a convincing feeling about what that place wants to be, you see? And it`s not just me. Me and my talent comes in taking that consensus and then making something wonderful out of it - a work of art.

- Allison Holiday

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

- Amanda Ogden

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

- Amanda Ogden

Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition.

- Andreas Capellanus

The Party of the Regions has won a convincing victory. We are ready to undertake responsibility for forming the Cabinet and we are calling on everyone to join us.

- Andrew Humphrey

At a time like this, scorching iron, not convincing argument, is needed.

- Andy Greenberg

the issue of race and class that has become the clear and convincing issue in this tragedy.

- Andy Hedrick

In the last analysis, provincialism is your belief in yourself, in your neighborhood, in your reality. It is patriotism without belligerence. Convincing cases have been made to show that all great art is provincial in the sense of reflecting a place, a time, and a Zeitgeist.

- Ann Donovan

The problem is convincing students to give it a try. After that, the game, properly introduced, will sell itself.

- Art Caplan

It`s appalling that the US military killed these women`s families and then the US government rejects their visas on the grounds that they have no family to return to in Iraq. These women have no desire to stay in the United States. We had a very hard time convincing them to come, but we told them how important it would be for their stories to be heard by Americans.

- Assoc Prof Au Eong