Life does throw some hard stuff at you as you get older, much harder. But you are more able to deal with things.
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life or not.
Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.
I think it's important to have as many experiences as possible in life because one day you won't be able to do it anymore.
I don't think many people can say they've been the lead in a Spielberg film and still been able to live their normal life that they had before.
I was blown away by being able to color. Then I started to draw... bringing a blank white canvas to life was fascinating.
Well you know, I've been into music my whole life, so to be able to put an album together with some of that music was awesome.
I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can't or don't do in my normal everyday life.
Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them.
There's been moments of depression in my life, moments when I was in situations that I thought I wouldn't be able to get out of.
I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.
Success to me is being able to do what I love, make a living at it and to support myself and the ones I love.
I love the long-form format of television. I love being able to develop a character, over a long period of time.
I love filmmaking, and I love the process. And I would rather do nothing else. It's a privilege to be able to paint such big pictures, so to speak.
Walking around sometimes, I would love to just be able to watch people, see how they act. Sometimes I would love to be invisible.
When you feel sexy or sensuous, you naturally want to open up and give, and I think that comes from being able to receive love and desire.
You have to love yourself or you'll never be able to accept compliments from anyone.
There is a phrase in French, which means 'to miss.' To pass by. To not be able to stop. You love someone and someone loves you, but it just can't work for different reasons.
I love theatre because it's just me and the audience. It's the litmus test in acting, to be able to sustain a performance over one, two or three hours.
It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long relationship with characters.
