A person with imprecise ideas can understand little and be of less help to others.
Insights don't usually arrive at my desk, but go into notebooks when I'm on the move. Or half-asleep.
You don't get on by being original. You don't get on by being bright. You don't get on by being strong. You get on by being a subtle crook.
I'm one of these children who grew up at the knee of my grandmother and her elder sister, listening to very old people talk about their memories.
I didn't cry much after I was 35, but staggered stony-faced into middle age, a handkerchief still in my bag just in case.
People who wrote literary novels about the past probably didn't want them pegged as historical fiction. Certainly that was true in England.
I dislike pastiche; it attracts attention to the language only.
The whole of theology, in regard to hell no less than to heaven, takes it for granted that Man is what is of most importance in the Universe of created beings. Since all theologians are men, this postulate has met with little opposition.
Getting bad reviews or doing something thats not great is also really good for you as an actor. It also makes me feel as an actor that Ive earned my stripes a bit.
Men always seem to refuse to admit they are sick until they're sick enough to make twice as much work for women. Then they claim they're well too soon, with the same result.
I think that when you have any folks in our population who live under the threat of violence, who live under the threat of crime, who don't have the opportunity that others have because the schools in our urban areas are a dreaded failure, because of the positions that Hillary Clinton has taken and the people who support her, that I think any candidate should speak out to say that that type of thing is unacceptable.