The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment and feeling truly alive.
Stop yourself the moment you begin to think there is a problem on the horizon. That thought immediately becomes the problem since our thoughts create our reality.
I think there's something really freeing about improv, that it's a collective, creative, in-the-moment piece. That's really exciting and really frustrating, because it's there and gone.
The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.
There are occasionally eureka moments - off the top of my head, maybe Darth Vader's theme, you know, the imperial march.
Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.
Like a layer on a pearl, you can't specifically identify the irritant, the moment of the irritant, but at the end of the day, you know you have a pearl.
To have my life accepted as just another ordinary life, to have it viewed as common and regular, was a singular moment.
Like every other girl in the world, my most embarrassing moment had to do with a guy completely turning me down. His loss!
In the morning, that moment, when I knew it was you. When I could feel you breathing and we opened our eyes at the exact same time.
That awkward moment when you realize someone was actually home the whole time you were singing on the tops of your lungs.
When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.
We rob ourselves of so much by focusing on the wrong stuff. And the ability to get into the moment and deal with what is, that's the real opportunity.
There's an old Fred Astaire movie where the stage becomes bigger and deeper and more complex. Moments like that really did impact on me and influence me.
No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it
I didn't want that 15 minutes of fame moment like, 'Oh, she said she was gay.'
Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.
Do not allow what you long for...., prevent you from enjoying the moment. Be joyful in the present, at the appointed time your wish will be granted.
Time is made of moments. The present is today. New day and new grace. Today is my precious time on earth.
You will never know how much you can accomplish until you try. Never stop trying. Your miracle will come in undefined moments.
When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.
