Every man plays the fool once in his live, but to marry is playing the fool all one's life long.
Everybody has something to lose. You have points to lose. You have money to lose. You have opportunity to lose.
I kind of put myself in this mindset where time doesn't really exist that much. There is no past or future. I just try to stay really in the present.
There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so youre kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When youre young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say.
That's what I love about kids. They don't care about anything else but who you are as a person.
I feel like when the task is more difficult for me it's more exciting.
You have to go through rough patches to achieve great things
A person walks into a room and says hello, and your life takes a course for which you are not prepared. It's a tiny moment (almost-but not quite-unremarkable), the beginning of a hundred thousand tiny moments and some larger ones.
. . . youth is only being in a way like it might be an animal. No, it is not just like being an animal so much as being like one of these malenky toys you viddy being sold in the streets, like little chellovecks made out of tin and with a spring inside and then a winding handle on the outside and you wind it up grrr grrr grrr and off it itties, like walking, O my brothers. But it itties in a straight line and bangs straight into things bang bang and it cannot help what it is doing. Being young is like being like one of these malenky machines.
Stand up straight and realize who you are, that you tower over your circumstances. You are a child of God. Stand up straight.
The big reason why I became an actor in the first place was to communicate. I never acted in high school. . . I was desperate to communicate.