Stop being self-conscious when you write. You are the expert about the world you are creating, no one else. So be bold and write on.
I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances.
In a play, you dictate pace, you dictate rhythm, you dictate when people look at you, when people should be looking at something else. In film, the editor does that.
I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. And my reality is that we live in a multifaceted, multicultural world. And maybe once we stop labeling ourselves, then maybe everyone else will.
Here, fire turns into water; Here, the dancing of the rain declares the sun. There's no opposition in existence, no contradiction; Everything supports everything else.
I've now discovered that if you know what you want and try hard to achieve it, everyone else will try hard, too.
We try to make sensible decisions with the facts in front of us. The problem with sensible decisions is that so is everyone else.
I remember playing with some friends and being aware that I was acting as I was playing with them - I would think of a character and pretend to be someone else.
Stop in somebody's shadow to rest and cool down, and you are lost. No one can make anyone else happy.
Lennon was not very fond of me. Lennon didn't like to be around somebody else who was likely to be the center of attention and didn't like being on deck with somebody who was intellectually as hot as he was.
I am a peasant from the Auvergne. I want to keep my farm, and I want to keep France. Nothing else matters now.
'The Unity Band' project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else.
Nobody really wants to hear about anybody else's injuries. Or how your back feels. Whose back doesn't hurt?
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
If you can't laugh at yourself, then how can you laugh at anybody else? I think people see the human side of you when you do that.
I'm so lucky, I'm just really grateful for what I've got around me - children and my wife and everything else.
Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world.
I was not born a size 2. I'm not skinny, period. I'm not willing to sleep with the director or step on somebody else's neck to get the job.
He said, "Yeah, well, artists are a lot like gangsters. They both know that the official version, the one everyone else believes, is a lie.
If you've got a huge Hollywood star in your film, they're getting $32 million, and everyone else gets their bus fare.
