Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse.
And the most important thing - apart from telling a good, believable story, and being a true character - is to be someone the audience will care about, even if you're playing a murderer or rapist.
Jessica Alba. I have the biggest crush on her, I can't even tell you. I met her in Vancouver when she was filming 'Good Luck Chuck.'
I always resented books that tried to teach a lesson, where the characters are too good: They don't swear, they tell their mothers everything.
I didn't need the insurance. I do it again if my DP tells me it didn't look good in the camera or if the actors didn't hit their marks. But if everything was working why do it again?
I'm a believer in what your record is. I am what my record is - some of it good, some of it bad, some of it hard to tell.
We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough to know if we have fulfilled our mission or not.
To me, a lot of what makes a good actor is not what a teacher tells you to do but how you respond when you're on your own.
As a psychologist, I can tell you that there are people who look very good in a group, but they're very different in a one-on-one situation.
I was at the first Minor Threat show, and you could tell, 'This band is going to be the king of the town.' It was obvious. They were so good.
In writing, I want to be remembered for telling good stories in beautiful and powerful language, using the poetry of words to reflect the thematic concerns of compelling stories.
I was good at being a doctor; my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn't tell their spouses. It was a real privilege.
If you keep telling girls they're less good at science, that will probably be self-fulfilling. But there are quite a lot of women who are good at it.
There's nothing good on the news. You're not telling me CNN is all cats in trees, are you? Nothing can be that good if Piers Morgan is in it, you know what I mean?
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
I always feel that in politics, you have a bridle on. Well, I took the bridle off. And I tell you, it felt pretty good.
I'm one of the few people in this world who can do anything I choose. I can't tell you how good I'm feeling.
What I've been telling everyone that loves Carolina football is that we are going to put a team out there that, number one, is in good shape. We're going to be fit, we are going to be able to play the whole game and we're not going to poop out.
I'll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader.
I'm not good at telling a joke, but I can say a line in a certain way that makes people uncomfortable because they don't know whether to laugh or not, and I love that comedy.
Somebody once said, you have to wait 20 years before you can tell if a movie's any good or not so that's probably true.
