When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple.
When everything works best, it's not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It's when you're mad with it, it's when it's stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It's when there's no hope but that.
The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike.
Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.
I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.
You hear a few people saying that, you know, maybe some of the past male players like to watch me play or whatever else, just because I play a bit differently and maybe they can relate to it a bit more with a bigger forehand rather than a backhand, good serve and whatnot.
Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun.
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
I can't know entirely what's at stake beforehand; you find out as you go. I love to take a poem, for instance, that starts with something seemingly frivolous or inconsequential and then grows in gravity until by the end it's something very serious.
The choice that you, as a Soul, have in relation to anything is always to be loving. Do you understand that this is the divine purpose that all of us as humans have been given - to love unconditionally?
We are going to have a huge Oscar issue, you are going to see everything in such beautiful detail.
If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.
The only credit I can give them. They synchronize wonderful. That's all. They synchronize very - you would have thought that they were actually acting, but they were synching all the time, and that's a rough job.
I'm living to the edges of my fingernails, using everything I have. It's impossible for me to look at things politically or in any way as a project, to further my career. You're injected directly into the blood of the places in which you're living and what's going on there.
Anytime you're saying that a person will be thinking one way or another or biased one way or another just based upon race, I just think it's certainly going to be subject to that criticism of racism.
The artist himself is actually the subject in everything after, say, 1900. Eventually, art becomes so removed from the community that you have to know about the artist before you can even look at the painting, because there is a conceptual idea going on.
You can't be chasing 15 rabbits. Otherwise, the public mind cannot follow you.
I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.
Learning what you don't want is how you know what you do want.
What the global delivery model allows is, it allows you to take previously geographically core-located tasks, break them up into parts, send them around the world where the expertise and the cost structure exists, and then specify the means for reintegrating them.
I think that the Oscar gives you some kind of guts or something, it gives you the illusion that you can do it. It's good for business.
In film, I find it very useful always to do some preparation before you start rehearsals or start shooting, because there's so much that's against you on a film set.
There's challenges in life that present themselves unexpectedly, and if you rise to them, then those challenges will toughen you up.
When you get real stage fright, it comes like a sledgehammer out of the blue in the middle of something that you know you've done too many times before, and there's no rhyme or reason for it. It's something quite different from being nervous. It's almost paralysing.
I used to go out wearing any old rubbish, no make-up, nothing, but since mobile phones, that has all had to stop. People do come up to you so often and say hello, or want a photograph, and I just can't do it anymore in what I used to wear. They don't want to be seen hanging off a rabid old granny any more than I do.
Do you think I'm going to be one of those flash-in-the-pan actresses?
Getting away from a white or light colored tuxedo shirt is always a little dangerous. Certain staples shouldn't be mixed with. Light pink or blue is not bad, but again, you're just breaking from a classic.
It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see.
Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.
Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.
People stopped me on the street and said 'I can't live up to you.' Of course, they're referring to June Cleaver.
Golf is played between the ears and if you are not 100 percent focused on what you are trying to do, then people will go past you no matter who you are.
Awakening your spiritual side is really what artists do. When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world.
If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.
People come up to me and say, 'Can I just thank you for writing my life?' And I reply, 'I'm glad someone else is as idiotic as I am.'
