I'm a comedian first. I've learned how to act. I just draw on life experiences and that's how I've learned. I didn't take classes or anything. I don't need no classroom.
But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.
One of the reasons I began to write was because I wanted stories for my children where the characters spoke as they did and had similar life experiences.
I just love the fact that a man possesses something that a woman can never understand because we don't have the experiences of it and that a woman possesses something that the man doesn't understand because only she possesses it.
'The Last Starfighter' was the first movie I did in the U.S. It was an absolute joy to be a part of it. 'Night of the Comet' was a labor of love. Truly a collaborative effort. I am eternally grateful for the experiences.
I don't wear any make-up on normal days and at school. But, if I'm going somewhere, I always do something with my eyes - crazy colors, sparkles. I'm all for it. I love experimenting.
I love traveling. But I haven't had big, transformative experiences while on the road. When I go out on the road, it's to go out and get a story or do a promotional event.
Many people are living unhappily because they keep trying to experience happiness without evicting the negative thoughts and beliefs that are vandalizing their minds.
Being the best version of you that could possibly be, is by far the best life that you could ever experience on earth. So try not to be someone else that you are not.
If you fail to take positive charge of your life, your negative experiences wouldn't hesitate to turn your mind into their playground.
You can never experience a major positive change in your life without controlling your mind to work in favor of your destiny.
If you are always taking the right actions that your goals demand, it would almost be impossible to ever experience a stagnant state of existence.
Never allow anyone to convince you into believing that your weren't brought into this life to experience a life of massive success and unconditional happiness.
When you start to focus on your daily positive experiences, you would surely come to realize that there is always something to be thankful for each day.
There is always something good about your day. Therefore, you must make it your daily responsibility to focus on your positive experiences.
Actors pull from their own experiences to bring reality to the characters. I wouldn't want to play someone who's a lot like me. There would be no turning it on or off.
I have worked with another first-time director who was not that open, and it was probably one of the worst experiences I ever had, so my antennas are really out.
in my experience, the words “now just calm down” almost inevitably have the opposite effect on the person you are speaking to.
Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
