When we're young, everyone over the age of thirty looks middle-aged, everyone over fifty antique. And time, as it goes by, confirms that we weren't that wrong. Those little age differentials, so crucial and so gross when we are young erode. We end up...
Sex for pleasure, for fun, or even for building relationships is completely absent from our national conversation. Yet taking the joy out of sexuality is a surefire way to ensure not that young women won't have sex, but rather that they'll have it wi...
Young children begin very early to internalize information that either encourages or discourages self-disclosure. Cues are intuitively understood. Most of what we feel is unexamined and articulated. Cultural norms are unwittingly absorbed. We learn w...
Young John Reilly: Hey, uh, Father. How long did it take him? You know, paintin' the ceiling and all? Father Bobby: Took him about nine years. Young John Reilly: Nine years? Father Bobby: That's right. Young John Reilly: [laugh] For a ceiling? I had ...
Young Gru: Look, Mom, I drew a picture of me landing on the moon. Gru's Mom: Eh. Young Gru: Look, Mom, I made a prototype of a rocket out of macaroni. Gru's Mom: Eh. Young Gru: Look, Mom, I built a real rocket based on the macaroni prototype. [Fires ...
Young Sophie: Calcifer. Calcifer: Sophie, I'm so tired. Young Sophie: If I give Howl back his heart, what will happen to you? Calcifer: I'll be okay if you do it, I think. I mean, you dumped water on me and Howl and we both survived. Young Sophie: I'...
Young Simba: Everything the light touches... But what about that shadowy place? Mufasa: That's beyond our borders. You must never go there, Simba. Young Simba: But I thought a king can do whatever he wants. Mufasa: There's more to being a king than g...
Mufasa: Look, Simba. Everything the light touches is our kingdom. Young Simba: Wow. Mufasa: A king's time as ruler rises and falls like the sun. One day, Simba, the sun will set on my time here, and will rise with you as the new king. Young Simba: An...
Frank: Say, how would you like some breakfast? Would you like some breakfast? Young Allie: Breakfast? Frank: Yeah! Young Noah: Dad, it's ten o'clock. Frank: Well, what's that got to do with it, you can have pancakes any damn time of night you want! C...
Young Ellie: [Ellie opens her Adventure Book to reveal to Carl a "Life" magazine with Charles Muntz on the cover] You know him. [Carl gasps] Young Ellie: Charles Muntz, explorer. When I get big, I'm going where he's going, [pulls away the magazine to...
A young wife, new bread, and green wood devastate a house.
When all other sins are old, greed still stays young.
The crab instructs its young: "Walk straight ahead -- like me."
Walk straight, my son -- as the old crab said to the young crab.
Divorce a young woman and you make another man happy.
Some people do stage and film. Some people are film actors, and some people are stage actors. I'm quite sure that any of the actors who did the original production of 'August' could have done the film of 'August.' I don't think any of them were parti...
How do you say one actor is better than another actor? You can definitely say that in the Olympics if it's the same race and someone wins the race. The only way to really do it and have it be sincere would be if you get all the actors together, and t...
I was an actor as a kid in Boston. Then I went to art school with Brice Marden, the Massachusetts College of Art. So the hybrid of being an actor and artist is a director.
Animals are the best actors. They never lie, they're always present, and they listen. That's a lot more than a lot of actors can say for themselves.
A lot of directors want to storyboard you, whereas the best way to get a performance out of an actor is a collaborative process where you listen to the actor's input.
There are maybe 100 actors I look up to, but my first two favourite actors were Dustin Hoffman and Jack Nicholson.
