When you're working with people you've seen in hundreds of films... it's a bit crazy to step outside yourself for a minute and think, 'This is surreal.' But I try not to get too bogged down in that.
Look at bread, and see it as a Dairy Milk Cadbury's chocolate bar, and say to yourself, 'OK, you don't need that.' Bread is bad.
With acting, you have to become someone else. That's the fun part of it for me - to step outside of yourself and become a character. I guess being Jimmy Cliff is a little bit of a character, too.
You can't help getting older, but you can help yourself from becoming old and infirm, in mind as well as body.
Three things will make you happy: always have happy thoughts, be honest to yourself, and express unconditional love for everything.
To feel the joy of life, let yourself go. By letting go we can feel and claim true ownership.
Ask yourself: was there anything I could have done to prevent the situation? If the answer is yes, do something now and become a better person for it.
You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.
I think that you have to find a piece of yourself in every role you play. If you don't believe what you're doing, you cannot expect anyone else to believe it.
Always work with/surround yourself with people who help make you a better version of you. Kindly avoid those who don't.
Even if you're in the thick of revising another work, write something new. Something small. It's important to keep telling yourself stories.
One day you're going to remember me and how much i loved you...then you're gonna hate yourself for letting me go
I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you can call yourself that.'
To wear a gray tweed suit, you have to be mature and confident in yourself. Some people can't pull it off.
What if "redemption" means not only freeing yourself from what you've done, but also from what's been done to you?
If they knew how much you kept inside to keep from hurting them, but hurting yourself instead, maybe they’d love you more.
Madeline knew how that was. So many people had ideas of what you should and shouldn't do, but in the end you had to decide for yourself.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.
The difficulty with film is you always have to consign a story to being a certain length, whereas with a book you don't have budget constraints; you can cast it yourself.
Resolve never to criticize or downgrade yourself, but instead rejoice that you are fearfully and wonderfully made.
I don't like labels. I don't understand the need for them. When you define yourself a certain way, people have expectations.
