The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is 'holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold a magnifying glass up to nature. As an actor you just enlarge it enough so that your audience can identify with the situation. If it were a mirror, we would have no art.
When I'm plotting out a book, I use a storyboard - I'll have maybe three lines across on the storyboard and just start working through the plot line. I always know where relationships will go and how the book is going to end.
I just want to be a really good congressman. You should look at what you are today and be the very best you can.
Even when they have a star that they're going after, casting directors love, if anything, just the excuse to see people. They like to have a dugout full of actors that they can go to.
There's still the part of me that wants to leap at every opportunity, but now there's the other side that says, 'Let's just wait a minute and see what happens.' That's intuition, and it comes with age and experience.
I just try to take the best opportunities that I can get.
Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.
I just was apologizing for maybe being a little goofy.
Why do it, just because I can? That's kind of crazy.
Poor people are too stupid to know they're just chess pieces in a game.
People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.
A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.
I'm just attracted to the action element of science fiction. It's great to sit in the editing room with the director and sound engineers and to create the feeling where your heart is racing and you're sitting at the edge of your seat and you find yourself holding your breath.
I don't just want to be that guy who throws hard.
Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.
What he showed me was not what I had to get, but what I already have. I am just myself, and who I am is a lot.
I'm coming up with new music, I'm in the best shape of my life, I'm real sharp, my energy is strong. I look at it as: I'm just following the energy. That's how I sum that up.
One of my favorite - well, my favorite, favorite, absolute favorite event to go to is Alfre Woodard has a party that I call the blacktress party. It's, like, black actresses that either have been nominated for an Oscar or should have been, and it sort of is just a night where we all get in a room and we get to celebrate each other.
I stay away from things that I know break me out - I am weirdly allergic to mango and almonds. I take evening primrose and supplements that have EFA fatty acids in them to just balance out my hormones and skin, and I take a lot of vitamin C. I drink a lot of water, try to eat really organic, and try to eat things that benefit my skin.
Just because my bank account hasn't swelled astronomically I don't consider myself any less of a success.
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Really, I've been working forever, just doing music, and then all of a sudden, out of the blue, everybody is just on it.
There's not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team.
We're just going to come out and play. We know that we're supposed to win all the games, but if we don't, we just have to take the next game and focus on what we did wrong in the game before and just try to do better at the next game.
We just set it up and recorded it the way we played it. But that was the way we played it then.
In the dressing room, we've just made it really Zen: low lighting, lots of candles, and fresh, healthy food.
When you speak of role models, when we talk to our kids, everybody is a role model, everyone, just as you look at a Michael Jordan to be the terrific athlete he is.
The first stone was just tried in the spirit of experimentation. The opening of the stone was far more interesting than the drawing that I had done on it.
These days you're not just competing with the tedium, you're competing with the cellphone.
Sometimes I just rely on technique on stage, but it's not about technique. It's about how much you want to deliver the message to the audience. That's all.
I went to film school so I have a writing and directing background, and I think a lot of the material I'm interested in writing and getting out there is stories about anti-heroes and people you should just not ordinarily root for - trying to figure out a way of appealing to people they wouldn't normally appeal to.
I do what I like now. I just don't have time for it all.
I would not have done much differently, but I would have loved to have done everything better. The truth is, I think I was just getting warmed up when the era ended.
I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.
My wife needs her freedom just like me.
I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.
