It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama.
Sean Penn

It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.
Quentin Crisp

It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.
Murray Kempton

It's always an enormous pressure when you do a sequel. The demands are so high, and it's expensive.
Jan de Bont

It's great to have the chance to play a character before he goes to the dark side, or the yellow side if you will. Normally, you don't get that opportunity. The narrative of a movie usually demands that you are that guy from the start.
Mark Strong

It's impossible to translate Wall Street greed into one or two demands.
Cornel West

Job plunges into a series of demands on and accusations of God which may be and indeed are epigrams of high intelligence, but are not noticeably patient.
Charles Williams

Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
Plotinus

Leadership demands that we make tough choices.
Alan Autry

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
Dag Hammarskjold

Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others.
Elizabeth Janeway

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.
Herbert Gold

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
George Jean Nathan

Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
Marquis de Sade

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.
Lord Acton

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.
Vicki Baum

Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
Henrik Ibsen

Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society.
Jacques Ellul

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.
Ayn Rand