The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.
I really love the process, with stage, of rehearsal, you get to create a character, and you have a beginning, a middle, and an end of story. And in television, you don't.
Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.
I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school.
I had this exceptional classical music voice. If I'd followed a true path for my talent, I would have ended up being an opera singer.
I think you have to know how you feel when you're sad and it's healthy to mourn if a relationship ends.
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.
Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.
Tennis was always there for me, which was lucky. I would go play baseball, basketball, football, hang with my brother, do whatever, and at the end of the day I'd come back and say, 'Hey, Mom, would you hit 15 minutes worth of balls with me?'
Most movies, once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions until the end.
I'd like to direct myself but I'm a cinephile and I also would like to just step behind the camera and be on the other end of making movies.
I think people who live in the worlds that movies are based on end up disliking them. Unless they're from a different time and era.
The Phantasm: Stay away! This is not your fight! Batman: This madness ends now!
Townsman: [being dragged through the street] Well, that's the end of this suit.
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
At the end of the competition, I played the Liszt concerto and I felt my head was on the block. Well, I won.
Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.
All my books started out as extravagant and ended up pure and plain.
Even the most terrible beginnings can turn into beautiful endings when the direction is changed.
