Without a response, I just stand there like an idiot. Like she just slapped my brain out of my skull and I can’t think.
Is it possible that we never feel grown-up because, as our capabilities increased with age, so increased our responsibilities?
Your greatest responsibility in your life is to be the best version of yourself. When you feel for what the soul believes that is who you become.
I'd say that the director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell in 'In the Soup'. It was one of my earliest leading roles, and he gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor.
The elderly are all someone's flesh and blood and we cannot just shut them in a cupboard and hand over the responsibility for taking care of them to the state.
When I was twenty-something, I asked my father, “When did you start feeling like a grownup?” His response: “Never.
Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only YOU can be responsible for it. You have to invest in yourself, or no one else will.
The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.
So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it.
Each generation of adolescents has at least two historical events that color its responses to whatever happens next.
But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.
Whatever they may say, your story is truly your own. You have a responsibility to it, the way a father has to a child
One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.
One cannot prescribe to anyone whether he should follow an ethic of absolute ends or an ethic of responsibility.
Being a mum has made me a lot more responsible, it's not just me anymore. But it's also brought me the most joy ever!
We expect forty-year-olds to have grown up at some point, and to be engaged and adult and take responsibility, and doing nothing would seem to go against that.
There is a misperception, if you will, in critical response or even in Hollywood, that I can only do exaggerated characters. Or what they would call over-the-top performances. Well, this is completely false.
In 1949, China declared independence - an event known in Western discourse as 'the loss of China' in the U.S. - with bitter recriminations and conflict over who was responsible for that loss.
Violence can succeed, as Americans know well from the conquest of the national territory. But at terrible cost. It can also provoke violence in response, and often does.
Mostly the problems when I was down were caused by myself. There were times when I was not responsible enough or decisive enough.
Consumers, unlike voters, expect an immediate response to their concerns; and companies, unlike governments, do not have the luxury of a mid-term lull.
