I glory in the fact that a human being has multiple talents and exercises them all with a degree of integrity and artistic proficiency. That's what I do.
People say keeping it real is a hard thing to do. Keeping it real is easy. Being fake and being soft is hard to do.
There's a big difference between being privileged and being spoilt. My parents always said, 'Spoilt means ruined, and you're not ruined, just incredibly fortunate.'
What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives.
I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of us.
We are either going to dissolve as a human race or we are going to break through into a new understanding of what it is to be a human being.
The idea that being human and having rights are equivalent - that rights are inherent - is unintelligible in a Darwinian world.
I'm a fallible human being - but if I were to react to that knowledge with fear/defensiveness then how would I move forward?
I felt like I got more comfortable on 'Idol' when I just started being myself and not trying to be what I thought I had to be.
I was a hockey player growing up. Being a big guy and being imposing, I had to use my size to protect my teammates.
I think the first villain that I ever played was on 'Stargate'. I was this superior being that would take over a human host and believe that he was the most superior being in the universe.
We're not one thing, as human beings, so any character that is written uni-dimensional, that's just a shallow character with shallow writing and shallow acting.
Being a correspondent on 'The Daily Show' is some combination of doing a character and doing stand-up. It's a juggling act to find a balance between being you and playing a role.
don't let the pursuit of happiness stop you from being happy right here, right now.
My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.
To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.
You don’t learn about yourself by being alone, you learn about yourself from other people.
We have this idea of artists being on the fringe and being debauched and strange. I don't think that people who commit themselves to classical arts should be exempt from that.
I think pop culture underestimates people. The message is, 'Being yourself is the worst thing you could possibly be.' But people are still attracted to it.
In my day, in my era, Ralph McDaniels, just being five and being at his block party, you could just got onstage.
