I find it very hard to play a part, then take it off like a cheap suit and become Mr Normal - Mr. Nice Guy.
Then there are these heavy perennial moments that suddenly unearth me, when the world takes on this ravaging clarity and you feel marooned, cut off from normality.
I'm just a normal girl who really enjoys her job, and so you have to take the other things that come with being in the public eye.
Psychoanalysts believe that the only 'normal' people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anyone else.
Most period drama is so earnest. A lot of it is about making yourself take seriously things you wouldn't normally.
A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
Practicing is not normally fun. Sometimes people say they're practicing, but they're really just enjoying themselves and the instrument. That's not real practice.
We moved to a place where we felt the children could have as normal an upbringing as possible. Los Angeles was not it. We live in a place with clean air and animals.
It's not all that different with the orchestra. There are orchestras that seem to be encased in dough, so that first you have to break through the normal routine, and clear out the openings.
Normally, in a film with lots of twists and turns, half of them don't make sense; they're just there for their own sakes.
Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.
All successful people these days seem to be neurotic. Perhaps we should stop being sorry for them and start being sorry for me - for being so confounded normal.
It takes great character and understanding of human emotions to help someone you shouldn't be helping under normal circumstances.
If the press see you looking normal they can suddenly be 'oh, she's got a spot on her face, she's having a bad day'. That can be quite cruel.
Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They feel like plot devices or cliches or stereotypes.
Friends are life's ingredient that makes every sad moment sweeter, every difficult time easier, and every normal moment extraordinary.
As I point out in the very first pages of 'Into the Wild,' I approached this book not as a normal, you know, unbiased journalist.
Back in the day, if you did any commercials or were affiliated with a company you were a sellout. Now it's kind of normal to do that.
Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie.
Though I was a mother at 21, being a grandmother makes the whole thing absolutely normal and gorgeous. The relief, the joy of being a grandmother is wonderful.
I like Stella McCartney, Chloe, Alexander McQueen, Aaron Featherstone, normal Chanel if I can ever afford it, I'd be wearing that all the time! I like to admire from afar.
