It is a little bit surreal to know that you are in your own little spaceship, and a few inches from you is instant death.
So when we're really addressing issues like poverty, you can't do that without addressing the real driver of some of those, which is stable homes, families. So that's why to me those issues are important. They're not frivolous. They're critical economic issues.
The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.
When you make a movie, you don't know how it'll turn out. You can only guess.
Having a child is a big life change, but the really hectic period is relatively short. You can get through it.
'Pair of Kings' is so much fun, literally. It is a very physical show with loads of stunts and green screen work, and you never know what great adventure is ahead of you! It's also a nice change in terms of being of similar ages to Doc Shaw and Mitchel Musso.
I think being a character actor is exciting in that it allows you to embody completely different things, whether it's through wild accents or a crazy bad guy or a drunken good guy.
The Spirit communicating to your spirit is the most effective and fundamental of communications. Write it down. As you write down impressions of the Spirit, more are given.
I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.
My wife and I are always concerned about how long it's going to take to eat out. You just don't know.
When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.
I know all about you. You're the people waiting on the shoreline with the warm towels and the hot chocolate after the woman swims the English Channel.
To make independent films, you can't think about them too much, ponder on them too much, get overwhelmed by the enormity of it.
If you don't have a voice that forces you back to basics, you're a dangerous person. Or, to put it another way, you're at risk, and the people with you are at risk.
Here's the problem: Profiteers haunt America, and for everything we try to control, someone's going to profit from it, more than you control it.
You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that's just begun.
I find that the best way to do things is to constantly move forward and to never doubt anything and keep moving forward, if you make a mistake say you made a mistake.
I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don't want to be the person to stick that in your brain.
I like to do things that you need to chip away at.
To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
I think it now comes down to whether you have the skills or not.
When you have children, you realize that at the end, it's all about passing on, about handing down.
Every single thing you do, you don't really have expectations.
You want the audience to be uncomfortable.
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.
You manifest based on who you are already - so you must own the identity of the dream in order to manifest it.
I don't think acting is addictive. If I stopped acting tomorrow, I really wouldn't care. If you told me that I would have to sell real estate in New York City to look after my family, that would be fine with me.
I just want to be a really good congressman. You should look at what you are today and be the very best you can.
This simple truth is the essence of my message to Muslims throughout the world: know who you are, who you want to be, and start talking and working with whom you are not. Find common values and build with fellow citizens a society based on diversity and equality.
History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead.
Firstly I did it in this huge theatre in Avignon, then to smaller places, then bigger places. You have to change the volume of the voice, give more or less. The way you have to relate to space makes it like sculpture.
Maybe I'm too young to keep good love from going wrong, but tonight you're on my mind, so you never know.
The one recurring theme in my writing, and in my life in general, is confusion. The fact that anytime you think you really know something, you're going to find out you're wrong - that is the rule. The moments where you think you have something figured out, those are the exceptions.
No matter who you are, no matter what you do, you'd like to witness history.
There's nothing, repeat, nothing to be ashamed of when you're going through a depression. If you get help, the chances of your licking it are really good. But, you have to get yourself onto a safe path.
The family unit is very interesting because these are people that you're supposed to be the closest to in your life, and yet that's where you find the greatest distances between people as well - especially between parents and kids.
