It was just expected that I would go to college. Both my parents are teachers and they tolerated acting, but I was going to go to a school of quality or bust. Which made my downshifting back to acting afterward a little difficult.
On so many levels, acting in film and TV is so much the sum of its parts, and somewhere in there, there's an alchemical thing that makes something happen or not - that makes something connect or not. Now, of course you want to make work that people s...
It really helps you to go through difficult situations by just thinking about it as being a big amount of work which you have to solve how to do. For example, I don't feel very inspired when I act, I just act. That's it.
I think acting is a gift. I look at someone like Ben Kingsley, and he's incredibly charismatic, even when he's not acting. He's an incredibly hard worker, and he has a very specific system that he does with his work.
When I work on a movie, I never aim for records, collections or the number one position. I always concentrate on my work and look for ways to improve my acting abilities. I also advise my co-stars not to concentrate on these pretty issues and just fo...
A vast majority of Republicans are on the record saying that they believe the Violence Against Women Act should be reauthorized. Let me be clear: I believe that Violence Against Women Act must be reauthorized.
We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they're never allowed to perpetrate such an evil act as they did. And so all of us are dealing with that. We know that the President has the authority to go to war...
I am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and conscription; but entirely apart from that issue, I hold that segregation in any part of the body politic is an act of slavery and an act of war.
Despair is something horribly simple.
It was simpler just to keep things simple.
Life isn't simple. Literature shouldn't be either.
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost.
I'm art. You're art. We are God's greatest works, simple as that.
Fucking bastards are simple by nature.
The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated.
My mathematics is simple: one plus one = one.
I am not one and simple, but complex and many.
Simple and to the point is always the best way to get your point across.
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
I'm a man of simple tastes. I'm always satisfied with the best.
