We in government should learn to look at our country with the eyes of the entrepreneur, seeing possibilities where others see only problems
My agent said, "You aren't good enough for movies. " I said, "You're fired. "
It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
I don't know what happiness is. I have periods of feeling joyous and peaceful and excited about what I'm doing, but I am also frequently very sad.
I MUST go to what desperately frightens me -- the chance of failure.
There are not a lot of places for an actor to explore what it's like to be a woman in her 60s. There aren't any films about it and there very few TV series about it.
You just do the best you can with what you've got. . . and sometimes magic strikes.
I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.
We do not have to accept our current circumstances. We will change them. We are Americans. That's what we do.
I come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures; it is not inhibited by flourish; it is a rhetorical society; it is a society of physical performance; it is a society of style.
The freedom of patient speech is necessary if the doctor is to get clues about the medical enigma before him. If the patient is inhibited, or cut off prematurely, or constrained into one path of discussion, then the doctor may not be told something vital. Observers have noted that, on average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story.