I'm surprised that Hollywood and networks have not been diverse as other industries.
Arkansas is a curious and interesting community. . . it is probably the most untouched and unawakened of all American states.
All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.
Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.
Live while you live, then die and be done with.
The camera is one of the greatest liars of our time.
Touch water in the West and you touch everything.
Let the surgeon take care to regulate the whole regimen of the patient's life for joy and happiness by promising that he will soon be well, by allowing his relatives and special friends to cheer him and by having someone tell him jokes, and let him be solaced also by music on the viol or psaltery. The surgeon must forbid anger, hatred, and sadness in the patient, and remind him that the body grows fat from joy and thin from sadness.
I literally fell into this business. I never came down one day and said, "Atticus' thought of the day. . . I want to be an actor!" My mom and I would always read story books out loud together and I loved doing character voices and playing with my voice.
The act, the doing, the taking up of paint and putting it down - the immediate impact upon your psyche or soul that occurs when you do that - has so much danger in it.
Consider surgeons and their work. It's unthinkable to put your hands in the warm blood of another human's gut. Even with rubber gloves on. Who'd want to do that? But surgeons get over it.