Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege. In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of race in America.
I love the theater because the theater is alive. The audience is right there.
I was busy welcoming a new experience. I had never done a movie before.
I'm not comfortable with just me, me, me. That's boring.
I've played American, Italian, Greek, French. I've been really lucky that way.
After about 15 minutes, you feel that you're winning them over.
I have to make this love affair believable enough. It's very European.
There are twenty ways of going to a point, and one is the shortest; but set out at once on one. A man who has that presence of mind which can bring to him on the instant all he knows, is worth for action a dozen men who know as much, but can only bring it to light slowly.
I knew I wasn't going to lose and that was based on the fact that I wanted not to lose.
There is a stability in the Universe because of the orderly and balanced process of change, the same measure coming out as going in, as if reality were a huge fire that inhaled and exhaled equal amounts.
Even winter — the hardest season, the most implacable — dreams, as February creeps on, of the flame that will presently melt it away. Everything tires with time, and starts to seek some opposition, to save it from itself.