He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.
I'd like to be like a hummingbird. You see them every now and then. You don't see them everywhere.
A great actor is simply just seeing him or herself, and reacting to what exists around them.
I'd always wanted to do a film than TV show because film is always where my heart has been. I like diving into the character for a few months, and then leaving it behind. I love the idea of that.
I started studying indigenous cultures and I was really inspired by their life styles and the way that they lived. Part of that was knowing how to survive in the wild and knowing how to heal themselves from the plants that grew around them.
I had never been to Hawaii, and now I say that my body is from L. A. but my heart is from Hawaii, because I'm in love with it and it's home on every level, from a spiritual, soulful place.
I went to public school my whole life, graduated high school with my class. Growing up, I'd go to an audition, my friends would go to soccer practice and we'd all reconvene and hang out in our neighborhood. When I would book something, I would never tell my friends. Acting was just fun. I was a kid, I wasn't jaded.
It becomes very difficult for us to adjust to a world without social media because we spend so much time involved with it.
The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. . . . [A] government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful unless those who elect. . . their governors are educated.
Woman's great strength lies in being late or absent. Presence immediately reveals the weak points of our beloved; when she is absent she become one of the sylph-like figures of our adolescence whom we endowed with perfection.
Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.