So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.
Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.
To want to be an actor is enough - you don't need to tell us about it. The interesting person who comes with some life experience is always the person who is going to be chosen by me.
A lot of people out there pay good lip service to the idea of personal freedom... right up to the point that someone tries to do something that they don't personally approve of.
Well, I came the second year. I mean I just fit right in. They wrote a great person and I'm so lucky that I got to be part of the family.
I am a very approachable and personable person, and I always put myself last. Whether it's family or friends, I always think about them first.
I'm a family guy, so I would love to have a family; I would love to find that perfect person to have a family with.
When I get into relationships, I'm an all-or-nothing person. I just completely give in to the person. It becomes my first priority in life; family, friends and career follow.
A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.
eBay's business is based on enabling someone to do business with another person, and to do that, they first have to develop some measure of trust, either in the other person or the system.
If I was in a situation where it wasn't working and I had a choice with another man, I'm gonna assess it like a business deal: who is the better person for me?
In everything I do, whether in business, philanthropy or my personal life, I am guided by my inner truth, my values.
First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.
As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.
When characters change on screen, it makes you feel better about yourself. You think, 'Oh I change too, I'm constantly becoming a better person.'
The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
Managerial and professional people hadn't really used computers, hadn't sat down at keyboards, until personal computers. Personal computers have a totally different feel.
I'm not proud of killing, of being responsible for the death of a single person. I never will be.
Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.
Michele Bachmann is always a great person to go to for an opinion about anything. She has a very active and interesting mind.
