If you're a vegan fast food joint in L.A., you just don't speak the same language as the heartland.
If you come up to me in the street, I am going to be delighted to meet you. I became a television star to entertain people, to spread goodness into the world.
I've had all that you could ask for. The fat lady has sung, and there's a standing ovation.
You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.
She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.
Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.
As an actor, that's the most that you can hope for - not only being part of a story, but being part of a story that matters.
What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?
Juilliard is wonderful in that they don't pick just one way of working. They give you a palette. There is method acting. There is a lot of attention to Shakespeare and verse.
Standing on soil feels so much different than standing on city pavement; it lets you look inward and reflect and see who you really are, while you see a beautiful, unspoiled land as far as the eye can see. It allows your inner life to grow.
I wanted it so badly that there was no choice. It's like something in your blood that you have to do.
For film and television, it's interesting how fans feel that their particular ways of manifesting their affections are the correct ones. It's not just about being a fan, it's about how you perform your fandom. That's always been interesting to me.
The theory in great families was 'why work if you don't have to.' Being a public figure was reserved for movie stars.
But - but the greatest way to witness is by walking that straight and narrow and also realizing that you're going to mess up. That's what grace is for. We're going to fall, but we've got to get back up. And you've got to improve. And that's what I'm all about.
Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded.
The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world.
People can try to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you've done up to now.
He wasn't, but producers are by definition annoying because they have a different agenda from you. They're trying to stop you spending money and you're trying to not spend money, but at the same time we're great artists.
Dedicating some time to meditation is a meaningful expression of caring for yourself that can help you move through the mire of feeling unworthy of recovery. As your mind grows quieter and more spacious, you can begin to see self-defeating thought patterns for what they are, and open up to other, more positive options.
Sometimes a hard day's work is easier than a lot of things you can meet in life.
I don't have to act for work anymore; I can act for passion. That's freeing, but it's also a prison of its own. When you can do anything you want, you're really responsible to do something great. And that's scary.
You can be playing a line some way and the director wants you to change that, or you can disagree. But I always think that the creative conversation between director and actor is what leads to good work.
I started in the mailroom, literally, as an intern... in 1974. The legislator I was working for at the time said, 'I want you to get your law degree and come back here and get elected and be the first woman governor.' I kind of took that guy seriously - I thought that sounded like a pretty good idea.
You have to have a cultural ethic that allows for making mistakes. It cannot be that just because you make mistakes, you're out. You have to make mistakes in order to innovate.
Growing up on, say, the Upper East Side, you're so isolated. If you go to the Hamptons every weekend, you never talk to a construction worker, and the construction worker would never talk to you.
Don't feel embarrassed if you've never heard of William Lane Craig. He parades himself as a philosopher, but none of the professors of philosophy whom I consulted had heard his name, either.
That's what a god is. Somebody who knows more than you do about whatever you're dealing with.
I think I've explained earlier on in the year that I kind of underestimated how important experience was in this series, especially when you're up against such good quality drivers.
People ask the question, 'If you're offered VP, would you take it?' No, I won't take it.
You always question people's intentions. That may be a combination of having money, having fame, and being a little older.
I haven't seen about half the movies I've done. You know, you've got to make a living, but some I don't get a good vibe with.
My fashion philosophy is, if you're not covered in dog hair, your life is empty.
We also listen to PJ Harvey; a lot of driving music. You need something a little more relaxing in the car.
Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
In 'Winter's Bone,' it's literally the director and the camera operator. That's it. Just a super-small Kubrick crew. You know what I mean? Like, 8 people.
If you know you're going to be outside, you have to be a little bit more in tune, so that you don't get distracted by what's going on and focus better.
