I thought my goal in life was to be in a successful band, and I had got that, but I was as miserable as I had ever been, and I couldn't understand why that would be.
I spent much of my life dying for somebody to help me even file for a patent or make a prototype. I understand that.
I think it's the same to be an actress anywhere because the profession is about attitudes towards events - it is a process to try to understand life. I think this is the case for actors across the world.
I always want to be telling stories in whatever fashion I can, and directing is really just understanding and learning a different element of that storytelling process.
I try to update my arsenal constantly. Learning different martial arts since childhood. To understand what's out there. To really be in tune.
Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.
When I was a kid it was much more difficult. You're trying to understand what the director wants. It's a learning process. Now, you go in and it's more of a collaboration.
We're learning as we go. We're a lot smarter this time. We understand what it takes to mobilize away from the threat of a hurricane.
There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them.
We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our understanding of what we dislike.
Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time.
We obviously need more love in the world. And we obviously need more compassion and understanding. Our leaders need to really address these issues properly now.
And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it.
I love cooking for the sake of understanding how people before me used to feed themselves, used to feed their families.
I want people to understand that I intend to continue living and doing all the things that I love to do up until the end. And the end is by no means rushing up on me.
When they can't understand why you are so confident with yourself, they would start to perceive you as being arrogant.
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.
Goths do not hate the world. They just learned to accept the world that refuses to understand them.
North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.
