There's nowhere in New York to go and have your emotions to yourself. People just look the other way because every day people see someone crying on the subway!
When actors are comfortable enough, and you release all your inhibitions, and you stop judging yourself, you're suddenly so supportive that it's this wonderful team cheering each other on.
Speak your truth with grace and integrity, even though it might upset some people. You never know who else, besides yourself, it might help.
Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've just written. But they get less specifically personal.
If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.
We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important thing.
People know what they see but they don't know what's happening inside. If you want to know who you are and how you feel about yourself, take a look at your environment.
There is a vast difference between games and play. Play is played for fun, but games are deadly serious and you do not play them to enjoy yourself.
Peace and satisfaction are the two most expensive things in life. You can never buy them, you can only generate them for yourself, and those around you.
To achieve self actualization, do good things for other people that you would want to be done onto yourself
There are countless reasons for reading, but when you’re young and uncertain of your identity, of who you may be, one of the most compelling is the quest to discover yourself reflected in the pages of a book.
I laugh at myself. I don't take myself completely seriously. I think that's another quality that people have to hold on to... you have to laugh, especially at yourself.
This is the question I want everyone to ask yourself every single day when you come up with something you feel that needs to be done: if not now, then when? And if not me, then who?
The tendency in comedy is to have a character who's stupid get more stupid, because you're trying to top yourself and not just repeat.
You need philosophy. It sounds a little pompous but I think when you direct a film, the only way to find a response to the questions you keep asking yourself is to have a philosophy.
That's what it means to be a man. You do what you think is right, regardless of who it hurts, and whether it works out, because in the end you have to live with yourself.
The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them.
The right thoughts of the clever man are a ladder which takes you higher places. By climbing these ladders, one day you yourself become such a ladder itself!
You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.
Make yourself your role model, because people who do not have qualities depend on the qualities of others to shape their own qualities.
Disconnect yourself from people who cannot add five to your ten words, because, sooner or later, you won't be able to say even a word.
