Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson.
I had the opportunity at Duke to start doing things in the community, and it's something I continue to do even 20 years later.
As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
If you start out trying to achieve a specific thing - like doing stadium shows or going into the studio and doing an album - the end result is what counts.
I suppose one of the things that interest me about acting is unpicking what makes people tick and why they do what they do and what it means to be human.
Managers will tell people what to do, whereas leaders will inspire them to do it, and there are a few things that go into the ability to inspire.
We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.
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What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.
Telling me that I can't do something is probably the worst thing that anyone can say, because I'll definitely do it. I'm very determined.
As an actor, I'm always so excited about those things that I get to stretch my legs and really get to do something that's hard to do.
I could never say I'm going to do bigger and better things because that would negate what I've already accomplished, and I don't want to do that.
We imagine things - that we wouldn't be able to survive, but in fact, we do survive. We have no choice, so we do it.
I don't know what to do with myself between films. I end up doing unhealthy things like shopping or drinking. I'm pretty schizophrenic about it.
Ummm... well, the only thing I want to do is stuff with people who care about what they're doing, which sounds obvious, but it's really not.
Mason: I just feel like there are so many things that I could be doing and probably want to be doing that I'm just not.
To be honest with you, I'd rather not be working. When you work, there are all sorts of deadlines and pressures. I like to do one thing and take my time to do the other one.
The process of making a movie has expanded in terms of effort and time for the director, doing commentaries for the DVD for example, finishing deleted scenes so they could be on the DVD, and doing things like a web blog.
I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
At one time, late Yash-ji, too, wanted to do two to three films, but somehow, I am not the kind to do too many things at the same time. I like to take it slow and steady.
