What about life, Ninotchka? Do Russians never think about life, of the moment in which we are living? It's the only moment we ever really have.
Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.
I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons. . . but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
When you attempt something new, there's always fear. A couple of helpful slogans to me are "follow the fear" or "fear is a sign of growth. "
At my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if I’m “passing the torch. ” I explain that I’m keeping my torch, thank you very much-and I’m using it to light the torches of others.
Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.
Sometimes we think of a creature like a person in a suit, but then you have limitations of two eyes and two legs - they have to see and breathe. I got more into puppetry because it offered more possibilities.
But really, we also need to learn how to love one another as women. How to appreciate and respect each other.
Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you want to call it, is going to take over.