Ex hoc momento pendet aeternites. (Eternity hangs from this moment. )
I happen to be a movie star, but I'm not saying, "Hey, I'm a role model. Imitate me. "
Can someone explain the vitriol whenever Ayn Rand comes up? 'Atlas' is the greatest motivator for the individual that I can imagine.
Be funny whenever possible, even if some people don't get it.
I’ve never agreed with the conventional wisdom that ‘actors are great liars. ’ If more people understood the acting process, the goals of good actors, the conventional wisdom would be ‘actors are terrible liars,’ because only bad actors lie on the job. The good ones hate fakery and avoid manufactured emotion at all costs. Any script is enough of a lie anyway. (What experience does any actor have with flying a spacecraft? Killing someone?) What’s called for, what actors are hired for, is to bring reality to the arbitrary.
Mostly people are interested in how somebody becomes an actor. And then, if they've had a couple of drinks, they want to know what Demi Moore's like or whatever. I mean, I don't mind people asking that at all, but when you've answered it five times. . .
I don't look back with any bitterness, though there are a couple of judgment calls and some '80s hairdos that I'd like to do over.
I think most people, if I asked, would say, "Yes, of course I believe. " But I think for a great many of them it doesn't really make much difference in terms of either what they do with their lives or with their own inner well-being. They believe because so did grandfather, and that's the same church they've been going to all these years.
A novel seemed the easiest way to get what I had had in my head into the inside of other people's heads. Books are good that way.
You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with a movie.
If you don't listen to theology, that won't mean you have no ideas about God, it will mean you have a lot of wrong ones.