Quotes about Preferences

For when moral convictions are reduced to arbitrary preferences, then they can no longer be debated rationally.

Which of my convictions have more to do with my own personal preferences than with God's revelation?

I have a pretty eclectic taste in the movies that I like to watch, and also in the movies that I'm inspired to work on.

Books are almost as individual as friends. There is no earthly use in laying down general laws about them. Some meet the needs of one person, and some of another; and each person should beware of the booklover's besetting sin, of what Mr. Edgar Allan Poe calls 'the mad pride of intellectuality,' taking the shape of arrogant pity for the man who does not like the same kind of books.

I prefer ordinary girls - you know, college students, waitresses, that sort of thing. Most of the girls I go out with are just good friends. Just because I go out to the cinema with a girl, it doesn't mean we are dating.

I like some things other people don't like, and they like stuff I don't like.

Trying to do good to people without God's help is no easier than making the sun shine at midnight. You discover that you've got to abandon all your own preferences, your own bright ideas, and guide souls along the road our Lord has marked out for them. You mustn't coerce them into some path of your own choosing.

I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.

Toronto girls are super interested in skincare, which is actually kind of unique. Because in New York, the girls seem to be mostly interested in makeup.

There's nothing American tourists like more than the things they can get at home.

Do you see a theme emerging? Women like flowers; men like food!

As an actor I get opportunities to do different kind of films. It's not that if I have done a few comedies, I'm averse to other roles or genres. It's just that I go for the films I like and incidentally some of them have been comedies.