I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.
It is very difficult for girls. They're told to look one way, but to act another way.
It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent when it comes to mental illness
All great art comes from a sense of outrage.
Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do.
The mentally ill frighten and embarrass us. And so we marginalize the people who most need our acceptance. What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.
What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.
You may be good, but what are you good for? You've got to be good for something. You've got to be about some project, some task that requires you to be humble and obedient to the universal principles of service. You've got to live a life of complete and total integrity in order to give this kind of service. This integrity enables you to love other people unconditionally, to be courageous and kind at the same time, because you have integratedness inside your own soul.
If the economy is growing, people want to employ more workers. If you hire more labor, wages go up.
My dogs are crazy. They're always getting into some kind of trouble but then again, they're my most loyal friends.
The day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind in never weary; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary.