I was in chemical engineering at Cornell University. My girlfriend at the time dared me to do a play. I knew there was something I wanted, not necessarily engineering.
When you have something that is bothering you, and then you articulate, take the time to really express it and see it clearly, to recognize. To acknowledge that is already a liberating energy.
But that's one of the nice things about doing a stage show, if something doesn't work out, you have the luxury of working on it over time.
I could really care less about what they think about me, but at the same time, I do have something to prove.
The thing that is uncomfortable is when people kind of stare for a long time and point. That gets weird. I'd much prefer someone to come up to me and say something.
There are two kinds of worries - those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter.
The rocky time came right after I left school. I spent a lot of time at night navigating the streets of Paris trying to find something to eat.
The public so often want to freeze the artist in a moment in time when they were at their peak, and they want the artist to revisit it over and over again as if it was something authentic.
If there is any one truth from the legacy of the Cayce readings, it would be that there is a spiritual dimension to humans, something beyond time and space.
Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk.
There's something about prime time television and the way the song is going to come off on the air. I'm very concerned, very self-conscious about that.
It is hard for a black man to just be himself. We spend so much time in defense of something that is indefensible because there is nothing to defend.
I don't know how to speak to celebrities. Every time I talk to Alan Menken, I say something stupid and I have to apologize.
Sometimes when you're just thrown into something, you are more ready for it than when you have time to think it over and get nervous about it.
Nothing can create something all the time due to the laws of quantum mechanics, and it's - it's fascinatingly interesting.
Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.
I guess that's one of the reasons that you do it - work all the time - because it's sort of a high to find something that really works.
Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.
I always knew that there was something that made me different, and by the time I was in high school, I understood what it was.
Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former - Being - be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter - time - be addressed as a being.
There was a time I thought about being a professional guide. I'm a big outdoorsman, but the acting thing has always been there - always something I wanted to do.
