People seldom change. Only their masks do. It is only our perception of them and the perception they have of themselves that actually change.
Truth and facts are woven together. However, sometimes facts can blind you from seeing what is actually going on in someone’s life.
I'm very lucky. I actually like screenwriting. I rarely feel a sense of doom going to my desk.
The most frustrating part of trying to direct everything is not that it alienates you from people who genuinely want to help, but that it's actually impossible.
I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.
I'm quite shy, so if there's a guy I like, I actually ignore him because I can't speak to him. I get all red and sweaty, and it's embarrassing.
When you spin a globe and point to a city and actually go to that city, you build an allowance of missed opportunities on the back end.
In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something.
I always find it easier to portray myself as being unlikeable and idiotic; to actually play a character that is likeable and engages the audience is far more difficult. It's a more subtle kind of challenge.
And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as explanations in terms of physics and chemistry.
I'm one of those goobers who comes out of the polling place actually wearing the 'I VOTED' sticker on my jacket.
When things went dark and you search for a light to see things clearly, that light is guidance. Don't wait for it, actually you have to search for it.
The quote above about patience is NOT MERYL STREEP's-- this quote is actually from the pen of Portuguese self-help author/life coach José Micard Teixeira. PLEASE REMOVE IT!!!!!
Opponents confront us continually, but actually there is no opponent there. Enter deeply into an attack and neutralize it as you draw that misdirected force into your own sphere.
We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be?
Directing was a natural thing for me. Actually, it was far less stressful directing than being the lead actor. I was able to have my input in all aspects of it.
I actually had a Bobby Orr action figure. You could put the pads on him and skates and all that. I was 7, and he was still playing.
The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
Every job I've ever gotten has been an accident. All the jobs I actually go after, I don't get.
Actually, recording the Suite Chic album was so much fun and while working on this new album, people that I've worked with from Suite Chic has lend their voice.
I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
