If I let the past and my goals be the only thing that drives me in life, I will never know the meaning of being happy.
Success shouldn't be revenge or a way to overwhelm the naysayers. If that is your reason, you are far from being content.
When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.
The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.
A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived.
Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?
The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.
When you go to a movie, it's about what's not being said. I tried to bring that to Greg Sumner. It was always about what's not being said.
We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.
Before you're a writer, you're a citizen, a human being, and therefore the weapons of the citizen are at your disposal to use or not use.
Of all mad matches never was the like Being mad herself, she’s madly mated.
No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happened to say it by chance, they would not know they had done so.
For a girl, the wedding is when you're married. For a guy, it's when you get engaged. It takes a real aggressive human being to back out between the ring and the wedding.
If you asked me what is the basis of all my work, it's the feeling there's something basically wrong with human beings.
The more work I do and the more I put myself out there publicity-wise, it's gonna be less and less chances of me being able to just walk around without being noticed.
Work is fun to me. All those years of being an actor and a director and not being able to get a job - two weeks is too long to not know what my next job will be.
What you want to do is, you want to get away from people being afraid to show their work, which is the first thing, because they don't want to be shot down.
Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.
Why we play as children is not because it is our work or because it is how we learn, though both statements are true; we play because we are wired for joy, it is imperative as human beings.
I don't think anything less than perfect, even though I'm a human being. The way I work and go at things is to better myself in perfect terms.
I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.
