Chance is as relentless as necessity.
I've loved making movies. I feel like I've been so lucky because I've gotten to be in movies that are some of my favorites, regardless of my being in them - like 'Heathers. '
When you finally accept that it's OK not to have answers and it's OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being.
You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.
I've learned that it's OK to be flawed, that life can be messy, that some days you glide and some days you fall, but most important, that there are no secret answers out there.
Crazy isn't being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me, amplified.
I was mid-sentence when the casting director said, "Listen, kid. You should not be an actress. You are not pretty enough. You should go back to wherever you came from and you should go to school. You don't have it. " She was very blunt - I honestly think that she thought she was doing me a favor.
Thou mayest rule over sin.
Unlike modern man, who dreams of the world he will make, pre-modern man dreamed of the world he left.
I have decided to proclaim for the whole Church. . . a day of fasting and prayer for peace in Syria, the Middle East, and throughout the world, and I also invite each person, including our fellow Christians, followers of other religions and all men of good will, to participate, in whatever way they can, in this initiative.
Life is easier when you can write off others as monsters, demon, as horrible threats that must be hated and feared the thing is you can't do that without becoming them, just a little.