I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.
We're all victims of our own hubris at times.
Theatre is organic, film is not. Theatre you come every day and you work with a group of people and you're are all up for it and you all get to do the whole thing every night, be it two hours or three hours. In film you work in two or three minute bits and it's never in chronological order and then someone takes that away and makes it look like it all happened, or that you gave that performance.
Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.
To know what you want, to understand why you're doing it, to dedicate every breath in your body to achieve. . . If you feel you have something to give, if you feel that your particular talent is worth developing, is worth caring for then there's nothing you can`t achieve.
You can't turn a "no" to a "yes" without a "maybe" in between.
I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling. . . to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift.
I did all my heavy partying before I turned sixteen.
Where will you drive your own picket stake? Where will you choose to make your stand? Give me a threshold, a specific point at which you will finally stop running, at which you will finally fight back.
My father told me very early on that it was a sin to worry too much.
Great leaders have to know when to divide that line from being selfless to being selfish, and he perfectly chose the time to be selfish and made plays.