Zitat des Tages von Luke Ford:
My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation.
I'm one of the guys who wants to watch the film completely done, with special effects, sound and music, because I tend to get disappointed if I watch it not fully done.
The Seventh Day Adventist Church believes that it was specially chosen by God to prepare the world for the Second Coming of His Son Jesus.
I've often thought that my lack of intimacy with those around me is the fault of those around me.
At the time I perceived most religious men, particularly the pastors with all their talk about love, faith and relationship, as effeminate.
Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused.
I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn't fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers.
With 'The Mummy' it was a fantasy action adventure. You get taken away for a few hours and come out and feel revamped and ready to go into the world and enjoy your next day at work.
In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed.
I now attend non-orthodox synagogues, and study little during the secular week.
Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions.
I loved history, particularly of the British, American and Old Testament kind.
I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians.
Judaism is much more communal, and partly as a consequence of my religious switch, I am increasingly more suspicous of my previous view that what people do in the privacy of their own home is their business alone.
I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.
If 'Black Balloon' had come out before 'The Mummy,' casting agents wouldn't have been able to see me for the first time in 'The Mummy.' But now that 'The Mummy' has come out before 'The Black Balloon,' that's a very good combination.
Everything we do affects other people.
I have decided to follow in my sinful ways, and have largely abandoned the increasingly religious life I was leading over the previous months, including several hours of Talmudic study a day.
I'm not jumping into anything fast. I'm an actor that likes to choose my work and there's an element of good taste to my work.
At times during high school and college I wished to be a sportswriter.
