I was kicked out of drama school in 1976, aged 18, for vandalising the headmistress's tyres, after being there for less than a year.
Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.
As human beings, what we can do is extend help in whatever way possible.
The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
At one point, I was just perceived as only being angry, but now I'm being perceived as angry, peaceful, and spiritual.
The great advantage of being human is that we can employ rational thought and resolve to change our circumstances.
It is at once the most overwhelmingly frustrating and exasperating task and the most joyous and rewarding experience to make human beings out of children.
If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.
The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
Business is just about enabling human beings, nothing more, nothing less. Businesses need to recognize this fundamental fact.
Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.
Business schools need to address students on a human being level, not as cogs in the machine to supply fresh talent to big companies.
True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.
It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.
No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.
If you, like, consciously think about being cool, you're not cool. If you consciously think about being, like, different or original, you ain't different or original.
It isn't something of which most of us are aware, but we human beings are 'marked' with a certain strange feature, and that is: We want to change.
Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.
The home of Rugby Union is in Twickenham - just outside London in the suburbs, where I live. I'm mad for it. The trouble with being an actor and being in the theater is that you always miss the games.
I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.
Human beings have to create hope. They have to. You have to have something you hold onto as being a possibility. Otherwise, why go on?
