Crusade Quotes

A silent gesture can convey more in a flash than a minute of spoken dialogue. Unlike most actors, who resist directors cutting their lines, I have spent my whole career filleting mine. There are few directors who have not seen my cuts as improvements. Steven Spielberg paid me the ultimate compliment on Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) by adopting nine out of ten of my ideas that traded dialogue for added visual interaction.

I would just look at Harrison (Harrison Ford); he would do stuff and I would not mimic it, but interpret it younger. Mimicking is a terrible mistake that many people make when they play someone younger, or with an age difference. Mimicking doesn`t interpret true because you can`t just edit it around. (on his interpretation of a young Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989))

(on his mock "crusade" against the Associated Press regarding his claim that coined the word "truthiness") It`s a sin of omission, is what it is. You`re not giving people the whole story about truthiness. It`s like Shakespeare still being alive and not asking him what "Hamlet" is about.

(on his role as Charles Gunn on "Angel":) "Gunn is an activist, a renegade vampire hunter who leads his motley crew of fellow hunters on a personal crusade of execution for reasons that the audience is not yet aware of. He is a tormented soul and a lone ranger, much like Angel, but he has adopted a family of lost and disenfranchised who he will protect at any cost. It`s almost like he`s two people in one, a violent and aggressive warrior, but also someone who desires family and people close to him." (March 18, 2003)

What was the reason for invading Iraq` Was it a humanitarian crusade or an economic one` I would be inclined to say the latter. It was the same with the Civil War, because the landed gentry`s money was being stolen by the king.

I first met Youssou (Youssou N`Dour) with Peter (Peter Gabriel) several years ago when we worked together on an Amnesty tour. Both of them have such extraordinary voices and Peter has done a lot to promote world music in general and that should be acknowledged as it`s been a one man crusade on his part.

I`m not on any crusade.

You would do far more good if you just preached the gospel of Jesus rather than trying to get rid of Third World debt relief - On Bono`s crusade against poverty in Africa.

A living crusade ... the truth of the gospel.

A major rugby tour by the British Isles to New Zealand is a cross between a medieval crusade and a prep school outing.

I didn`t expect right after July 16th to be more in demand and more respected everywhere I went, from the West coast to the East coast, from hard-core gang members to corporate people with suits and ties on, black and white. It just secured everything for me. I`ve been on a nonstop crusade since July 16th. I haven`t had much time for family time, based on the outpouring of love and respect they have for Bernard Hopkins.

The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.

My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn`t when I started.

This crusade is much more important than the anti- lynching movement, because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom.

They may not be conscripted against their will as the foot soldiers in a federal crusade.

It is not right to associate the fight against international terrorist networks with an imaginary crusade against Islam.

AztecAmerica is not a crusade. It is simply about bringing to bear banking principles, decision-making tools, technology and proven business solutions in order to increase access and bring down the cost of financial services for Hispanic-Americans. Our primary mission is to bring bank-quality standards, products, services and pricing to a substantially underserved marketplace.

Hank Paulson has cast his lot with radical greens and their crusade against the global economy. If he?s not careful, he?s going to match Rachel Carson?s record for spreading death and destruction in the developing world.