Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true.
Giving should be a part of your routine, just like working out, eating, and sleeping.
You don't get to celebrate yourself unless you risk being mocked or rejected. As an artist, you cannot play it safe. You just can't.
I try to take B genre movies and treat them as if they're A dramas. Get the cinematographers, get the actors to do an A drama, but it just happens to be about aliens or ghosts or crazy people, or killers, or whatever it is.
When you say fear of the unknown, that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and its genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because were not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.
My grandparents were classic Indian grandparents. My grandmother would put so much powder on her face that it was like a Kabuki play and she'd come down the stairs. I was like 8 or 9 years old. My grandfather apparently had no teeth because he would take out his teeth and put them in a glass, and then he would try to scare me with it. I started to try to scare them when I was a little older.
There's no staying where you were. If you're not doing anything, your skills and point of view are atrophying.
Those whom we first love we seldom marry
My male friends don't seem to have any feelings of intimidation that I am a 100-watt sex bomb standing next to them.
She was in pain and I loved her, sort of loved her, I guess, so I kind of had to love her pain, too.
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