Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far from my mind.
I'd like to see the University of Western Australia and the other four or five universities in Western Australia really excel through having some of the greatest minds in the world attracted to it.
I started working with brain sensing tech in labs over a decade ago and was immediately fascinated by the potential to help people peer into the workings and behaviors of their own minds.
My parents are my major supporters. I look up to Denzel Washington, Jack Nicholson and Jim Carrey. They have all opened my mind and helped me with my craft.
Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you want to call it, is going to take over.
There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.
Then, I guess, I can only hope that you will change your mind. But I will love you, without a doubt, for all eternity.
Usually when I write a script, I have in mind some real people that I'm writing about, who don't always act in the film afterward.
Thinking before taking actions is useful only if you are going to take action, otherwise you are wasting time and insulting your mind.
My left foot is the wisdom from yesterday, my right foot is the vision of tomorrow and my mind is focused on the work of today and this is how I stand a winner.
Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.
There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media.
Every mind is a puzzle, the more pieces the crazier. Like everyone I want to solve them all;hoping i dont end up crazy too.
Some people take what they need from the orchard, and other people pick the orchard clean." From - "The Mind Game Company - The Players
I was always interested in it when I was younger, but it was when I was at university, getting together with other like-minded theatrically inclined types, that I admitted to myself that I wanted to be an actor.
Try to open up your mind a little, and move away from rigid opinions of what people should do and be - unless you have been there.
Be brave. Be free from philosophies, prophets and holy lies. Go deep into your feelings and explore the mystery of your body, mind and soul. You will find the truth.
He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but not free to avoid the abyss he refuses to see.
The highest privilege of being a writer is being able to say, 'open your mind to me and I'll take you to another world.
I wasn't a kid growing up thinking, 'One day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech.' That wasn't on my mind.
The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.
