There should be more to writing than entertaining an already-brain-dead society and making money. If not,then you miss the point of writing.
My life's all I got and Heaven is all in my brain, and when I feel I'm in Hell my ideas are what get me through pain.
With the acting, it's somebody else's brainchild, and I'm just sort of helping flesh it out. There's a special satisfaction to being the brains behind the operation.
Dogma is a defence against the brain’s capacity for free thought based on the fear that such thought might lead to a scary place.
Human beings are social animals; we devote a significant portion of our brain just to dealing with interactions with other humans.
I like to remember phone numbers because it keeps your brain active. If you don't use it, you lose it.
Much as I loved doing 'The Big Breakfast,' it almost became automatic. I need something to keep my brain ticking over, something that I have to concentrate on.
Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn't.
I am racking my brains to find out why he left without saying goodby to me.
I am really quite fascinated by echo-locating bats and dolphins and have always wondered how sound affects the unconscious brain.
So you try to think of someone else you're mad at, and the unavoidable answer pops into your little warped brain: everyone.
I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.
The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there's so much pressure to do it.
Remember that you are not a damsel in distress, waiting for some prince to rescue you. Forget that prince. With your brain and your resourcefulness, you can rescue yourself.
You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.
The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.
Sticking wires into the brain is obviously rather crude. It's hard to do in animals that run around, and there is a physical limit to the number of wires that can be inserted simultaneously.
I like to talk on the cell when I do interviews. That way, I double my chances of getting brain cancer: from the cell phone, and from the questions.
Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but little taste or talent.
With a theatre audience there's always the additional sense of a sustained challenge of which I'm acutely aware and for which you need to have the tools ready - your voice, physicality, brain.
