We will never know our full potential unless we push ourselves to find it. It's this self discovery that inevitably takes us to the wildest places on earth.
I never really acted at school. It was doing small parts on TV that really got me started.
When you're happy you don't always have to be laughing, and when you're sad you don't have to be crying; sometimes it's the opposite. You laugh when you're the most upset.
As always, with acting, you can't be too self-conscious. You shouldn't care about what people are thinking about you at the time because they're not caring about you, they're caring about the character.
We live alone, we die alone. Everything else is just an illusion.
I always try doing a different character for every film so it's not just changing one.
It's very nice having my mum as my agent. You know that she's always doing what's best for you.
Something like Nightmare On Elm Street, to me, was kind of an examination of levels of consciousness and the pain of facing the truth, and how easy it is to fall asleep, or want to fall asleep.
Do you realize Fischer almost never has any bad pieces? He exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents
Why couldn't the world that concerns us- be a fiction? And if somebody asked, 'but to be a fiction there surely belongs an author?'- couldn't one answer simply: 'Why? Doesn't this "belongs" perhaps belong to the fiction, too?'
Welcome to the present moment. Here. Now. The only moment there ever is.