Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" All I know is that my best work has come out of being committed and happy. "

Related Quotes:

" David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists. "

" Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study. "

" I don't want my children to have to wade through the crap to get to the cream, you know. I want them to be aware that I struggled to live with and tell my truth, and that it was a decent thing. "

" I very much prefer the balance in a scene to standing out and so you have to make a decision. "

" I listen to XM radio because I can get so many overseas news stations. "

" Woody Allen asked me to improv once. I said no. "

" Defeating fear is not a light switch. For most of us, it's daily work. "

" The funnel of deep feeling and profound satisfaction in life comes from the capacity to feel. "

" I've made a couple of films that were a little too wide and non-specific - like 'The Doctor.' "

" Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge. "

" You cut off the capacity for grief in your life, and you cut off the joy at the same time. They both come up through the same tunnel. You don't have one without the other. "

" I've been delighted by Cannes and Toronto but I keep saying I don't know how good we're going to be received in America because that's where it's most challenging. "

" The thing is David is also aware of everything and it's not like you're going somewhere the director is not. "

" People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't. "

" My greatest offering is my concept. It isn't my face. "

" Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just trying to get in and you're given so little time to get in gently, but it's always hard. "

" I am so thrilled by the privilege of life, and yet at the same time I know that I have to let it go. "

" But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all. "

" You can only sit on the frustration of wanting to express something for so long. "

" We'd like to prearrange our life on all levels. We'd prefer it to be scripted. But it's not. "

" The problem with Google is you have 360 degrees of omnidirectional information on a linear basis, but the algorithms for irony and ambiguity are not there. And those are the algorithms of wisdom. "

" I haven't planned a reaction on anything... If you do, you've screwed up. "

" We get so intellectual that we forget that we're physical creatures. "

" The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being. "

" I grew up in the South Pacific. Basically, my brothers were Guamanian. I spoke words of Guamanian long before I spoke words of English, and so I've seen a lot. You know, I've traveled in places where people don't have the benefits of American life. And so I've seen a lot of stuff. "

" I need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and it took me 15 years to figure that out. "

" The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done. "

" I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process. "

" I just looked at him because I want to be looking in someone's eyes when I die. "

" It's been a long comeback. Things were pretty dark for me. But I have a faith now, and it saves my day. I was angry with God for a long time because I was unhappy with me. I hadn't learned to make the distinction between God and my parents. But there's a peace now. In the end, I got sick and tired of being sick and tired. "