If evil is empathy erosion, and empathy erosion is a form of illness, then evil turns out to be nothing more than a particularly awful psychological disorder.
When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one.
I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film critic to make a living.
If I had gone to drama school, I wouldn't be sitting here now because it would have blanded me out; it would have just turned me into another actor.
The Net is allowing us to turn ourselves into a giant, collective meta-intelligence. And this meta-intelligence continues to grow as more and more people come online.
I've never been comfortable around groups of guys when it gets into the putting-down. My past being a kind of geek - it kind of turns into an attack on the weakest of the group.
I was surprised that the TV series was popular itself, but after that it went on to become more popular over the years and thus it seemed eventually that they would turn it into a movie.
I would never call Jerusalem beautiful or comfortable or consoling. But there's something about it that you can't turn away from.
A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some wet cement. To act, an actor has to have words. A stage. a camera turning.
Pink is what I do. Alecia is who I am. The world has taken Pink and turned it into this thing, a brand - a snarl.
Politicians will talk strategy and tactics and policies and programs until they're blue in the face, or you strangle them and they turn blue.
The Clinton Administration has turned out to be a boon. I knew that he would be wonderful, I just knew it from the beginning. From Arkansas? Shoot.
I'm looking forward to free skiing the most. Just groomers, big wide groomers making nice big turns.
Those who understand such things say that the two partners must always assist each other if a relationship is truly to founder and turn into flotsam.
I bought a Dutch barge and turned it into a recording studio. My plan was to go to Paris and record rolling down the Seine.
The thing about being an actor is that you turn into other people. You have to hide yourself a bit in order to let that other person come out.
Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.
In the beginning, when I was trying to write, I couldn't turn off the outside world to the extent that I can now.
But for me, the challenge is how you turn a character into behavior. Once the director says 'action', you just try to live between those two worlds.
It's the same the world over. A Hollywood production comes to town, and the locals all turn movie crazy.
All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was.
