No one makes a revolution by himself.
I just don't believe you're capable of being an actor unless you have a desire to experience your emotions in a public way.
I'm fundamentally a busy person; I spend my time doing useful things and profoundly useless things!
The worst thing you can do as a performer is to judge your character in any way, positively or negatively.
Nowadays, most women just assume they have a right to be in the workplace, and any kind of discrimination they suffer is sort of more creeping.
I think if I was ever really going to be more serious about writing I'd have to try and find some way to do it with other people. I do find the silence kind of eerie.
Our conception of 1950s underwear is a lovely vintage aesthetic, but actually, wearing stockings with no elastic and a girdle was heavy duty.
In the US, what passes for Christianity - and it is, to say the least, a highly perverse, possessive individualist and capitalist version of what I would see as Christ's messianic ethical communism, to say the least - is a new civil religion, a civil religion of freedom.
One cannot say of something that it is and that it is not in the same respect at the same time.
Late one afternoon when returning from town we were met by a few women and children who told us that Mexican troops from some other town had attacked our camp, killed all the warriors of the guard, captured all our ponies, secured our arms, destroyed our supplies, and killed many of our women and children. . when all were counted, I found that my aged mother, my young wife, and my three small children were among the slain.
I think if you touch ordinary people, they're simply ordinary people, the way they've always been. They work hard, they don't have really as much as they should.