I always wanted to act, but I never thought it would be my profession. I thought that I'd end up doing other things, but that in the meantime I'd do plays.
I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.
All phenomena do not inherently exist because of being dependent-arisings. All phenomena do not inherently exist because of being dependently imputed.
Do much more than you are being paid for today because someday, you will be paid much more than you are doing.
My grandma passed away at 98 1/2 and I want to live to 100. I want to be able to do what I can do even at 100.
I will always want to do whatever it is that my heart is in, and whether I get paid for it or not means nothing. It doesn't matter. I'll do it if it means something to me and I want to be a part of it.
When you understand how to do that dance, when the photographer says, 'Hold it, do it,' and you know you're getting it right, oh, the fun. It is fun.
Real people do real things. A collective of a whole bunch of people who do things in their own locale, in their own neighborhoods - the sum is bigger than the parts, and the parts will grow.
My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing.
Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.
A leader's most important decisions are about people. Who do you put in which jobs? How long do you leave them in a job?
When you do a movie, you go to the location and get into your costume. It's part of your metamorphosis into your character, and it just made sense to do it.
People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It's not really what they were doing. They were all doing something rather different.
As an actor, you're pretty much a hired gun. You are reading other people's words off of a page and doing what they want you to do.
Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice.
I try and make all my songs sound different from each other while doing it in a way that's still me. It's a tricky thing to do.
It has nothing to do with who I am as compared to everyone else. It has everything to do with who I am in companionship with God.
The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.
When we were doing the cheerleading for this, I was excited about doing it because I always wanted to be a cheerleader. I always wanted to but I didn't get to because I was working.
If you work your hardest, and you do your best, then the rest is not in your control, but in God's Hands.
