When you listen, it's amazing what you can learn. When you act on what you've learned, it's amazing what you can change.
Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together.
Who knows if tonight our journey ends? Who knows if this be last lap? Who knows? Dwell on thoughts * Act! Pray!
I remember sitting in school and thinking, 'I don't know why I'm here, because I know I'm going to act and I know I'm going to America.'
I'm so fortunate in that I've never had another job to pay a bill but acting, since the day I got out of high school.
I think in the immediate days after 9/11, the administration acted very, very well. I liked the decisiveness of it.
But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.
The whole chameleon thing about acting. That's why I'm moving towards directing - it's a much more healthy occupation.
As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.
I'm always a people watcher. They always had us do that at the University of Connecticut where I went for my training. I got my B.F.A. in Acting there.
So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.
The difference between the extras here and in France is the French extras read books. Actually, they hide the book and pretend that they're acting. Here, you can see everybody wants his break.
Someone will always hate what I say. There's always going to be somebody spitting blood about my wooden-faced, toffee-named, crappy acting.
I think I may have created a monster with my - I won't say act - but with my redneck pose.
We all know the stories about the Human Rights Act... about the illegal immigrant who cannot be deported because, and I am not making this up, he had a pet cat.
Remember the Dreamers whose patriotism was praised when the Democratic House passed, and the Senate filibustered - the DREAM Act in 2010? Washington promised a path to citizenship, not just a roadblock to deportation.
The red carpet is a beautiful situation for people. I think everybody appreciates it and loves it and honors it. Nobody really acts a fool because they know this is a one-time thing.
It is ironic that even today men are judged by how much they have and women by how they look while both should be judged by how they act.
There's this weird thing about acting where you have to wait for somebody to ask you to do it; like you have to wait for a director to say it's okay.
Wisdom is a true activity of compassion. And so, meditation is the act of loving kindness. It is the activity where loving kindness is applied on all levels.
You do not need permission to be you. Just be your authentic, brilliant, one-soul-only self. You are a marvel. Act like it!
