Most people in life, give up too early.
If you're walking down the street in L. A. , people do sort of look at you like you're a hooker because it's so rare to see someone just walking.
I don't know why people are so down on the Best Western. They have the best sweet potato fries I've ever had.
I was quite straight-laced. I was quite academic until I was about 14 and then I went to boarding school where I had the opportunity to continue to be very academic, but got less interested in it and became more involved in acting. And then when I was applying for universities I used a couple of places on my UCAS form to apply for drama school without telling anyone. . . but didn't get into drama school. But that was the most rebellious thing I did
I never had posters on my wall and when I meet actors that I really admire, it's exciting because I get to work with them.
People get married when they're 18 and spend their whole lives together. I think their greatest fear is that someone will see it as a fling because they were young and it didn't mean anything.
It's so silly isn't it? how we grown men take up trout angling not simply to pursue trout but to find some place, some special place, where we feel at ease. a place to belong. Forces, not forms, persist: energy is spent and endures; time does not tick, it flows. God loves a man that smells of trout water and mountain meadows. Which way's heaven, you suppose? Follow the trail and keep close to the stream.
That man is always happy who is in the presence of something which he cannot know to the full, which he is always going on to know.
Upon arriving in the capital-F Future, we discover it, invariably, to be the lower-case now.
My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four cattle that he gave to me when I graduated from grammar school, from the eighth grade. And those cows multiplied, and he kept track of them for years for me. And that was my herd.
In societies that worship money and success, the losers become objects of scorn. Those who work the hardest for the least are called lazy. Those forced to live in substandard housing are thought to be the authors of substandard lives. Those who do not finish high school or cannot afford to go to college are considered deficient or inept.