Hardened Quotes

I`ve seen many men die right in front of me - so many in fact that I`ve become almost hardened to it. Having seen the worst that human beings can do to each other, the results of torture, mutilation and seeing someone blown to pieces by a bomb, you develop a kind of shell. But you had to. You had to. Otherwise we would never have won.

You know where (the pride) comes from? It`s not so much from the industry ... but the 9-year-old kid who looks at you like a cross between Superman and Santa Claus. And you`d have to be a really, really hardened cynic not to be moved by that. Not only that, but just doing the interviews for this animation series, I can`t tell you how many people have said, `I got into the business because of that movie.` ... I totally understand that because I remember walking out of Jason and the Argonauts (1963) and saying, `I don`t know how they got those skeletons to fight, but someday I want that to be my job. To make skeletons fight.`

As we`re bombarded with the imagery that we are and now, post 9-11, it`s hard not to get hardened by the world and the amount of violence that`s allowed to be shown to kids these days.

(Painkiller Jane centers on the title heroine, a young Marine officer who gains rapid self-healing powers after being exposed to a biochemical weapon.) They`re slightly different, yet the same, ... Jane doesn`t become a different person, necessarily, but things happen in her life that change her perspective on life in general, on who she is, and she starts to question a lot of things. So in her transformation into Painkiller Jane, she becomes a little more hardened and a little more skeptical of the world around her. I didn`t treat them as two entirely different characters, but there definitely is a shift that happens.

When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I`m a little guarded and hardened to that.

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Likewise today, some Christians are content to merely exist until they die. They don`t want to risk anything, to believe God, to grow or mature. They refuse to believe his Word, and have become hardened in their unbelief. Now they`re living just to die.

You get a wee bit hardened to it. But obviously you would rather have praise than the other stuff. Everyone, we should all remember, is human.

Deep down even the most hardened criminal is starving for the same thing that motivates the innocent baby: Love and acceptance