I can honestly say and swear on my patch that I have never in my life hurt anybody that I really didn't feel had it coming, because they was either trying to hurt me or my friends. If everybody was like that it [life] would be real different.
All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
We must overcome the notion that we must be regular. . . it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.
Theoretically, the actor ought to be more sound in mind and body than other people, since he learns to understand the psychological problems of human beings when putting his own passions, his loves, fears, and rages to work in the service of the characters he plays. He will learn to face himself, to hide nothing from himself- and to do so takes AN INSATIABLE CURIOSITY ABOUT THE HUMAN CONDITION
The knowledge that every day there is something more to learn, something higher to reach for, something new to make for others, makes each day infinitely precious
no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen.
The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.
. . . he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go. " From Alice Hoffman's "Local Girls", pg. 102.
To restore America's competitiveness, we must recruit a new generation of science and technology leaders by investing in diversity.
"Every decision you make can change the world. The best life is the one the gods don't notice. You want to live free, boy, live quietly. " "I want to be a soldier. A hero. " "You'll grow out of it. "