You don't want your credibility banana to turn brown, but you do want to speak out about what you believe in.
Acting is my way of investigating human nature and having fun at the same time
The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.
I think that you find your own way. You have your own rules. You have your own understanding of yourself, and that's what you're going to count on. In the end, it's what feels right to you. Not what your mother told you. Not what some actress told you. Not what anybody else told you but the still, small voice.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself.
What makes you different or weird, that's your strength.
In Britain, journalists often view comparisons with our society going back two, three, or seven centuries as more relevant than comparisons going back two, three, or seven decades. Drunkenness centuries ago is more illuminating than comparative sobriety 30 years ago. The distant past, selectively mined for evidence that justifies our current conduct, becomes more important than living memory.
When you have to apologize, it is well, I suppose, to get the thing over quickly.
There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.
Successful leaders develop effective strategies for maintaining their boundaries. . . . Most time bandits don't know any better. And being a time bandit is a matter of context. One person's time bandit is another person's pleasant diversion. . . . Instead of gritting our teeth to be polite and resenting the time bandit for holding us up, the best choice is to be honest. We cannot expect another person to honor our needs unless we affirm them ourselves.