There is nothing more important than appearing to be religious.
When school friends would think about appearing on stage as the most frightening, the most awful, intimidating experience ever, I knew that it was something I could do.
Real life, raising kids and trying to raise them to be good people takes a lot of work. It's all about (appearing) effortless, yet there's so much effort. You do it the best you can.
Always, always powder your T-zone and the lines going from your nose down around your mouth so you don't look like a bulldog. When those areas are shiny, it's awful. And gloss will keep your lips from appearing dehydrated.
Lost really has two disparate meanings. Losing things is about the familiar falling away, getting lost is about the unfamiliar appearing.
The lovers, appearing happy, walk, holding hands. Though it appears everything is perfect, only they know the truth.
The movie is usually, for me, something organic that grows all the time. I sit home and write it, and I'm in an isolated, four-walled environment, and I don't know what's going on. I just write it, and it's appearing in my head in some idealized way where every single moment works, and every little thing is perfect, because it's in my head.
The teaching of the buddhas is: Find time and a place to remain unoccupied. That's what meditation is all about. Find at least one hour every day to sit silently doing nothing, utterly unoccupied, just watching whatsoever passes by inside. In the beginning you will be very sad, looking at things inside you; you will feel only darkness and nothing else, and ugly things and all kinds of black holes appearing. You will feel agony, no ecstasy at all. But if you persist, persevere, the day comes when all these agonies disappear, and behind the agonies is the ecstasy.
Layering in different patterns will keep things from appearing too studied.
Sometimes I have a tough time getting along with myself. When I was a child, I needed a lot of attention. . . and I don't have a small ego. For me, appearing on a stage or presenting a cake is the same thing. You need a crowd around you to do it.
To be truly positive in the eyes of some, you have to risk appearing negative in the eyes of others.
Awareness cannot be at the end of a process because the very striving, and the process itself, is arising and appearing in the Awareness which is timelessly present.
There are actors who are really fantastically talented at being natural on screen and appearing to be themselves, but I like the challenge of becoming somebody else.
The absolutely worst thing that could happen to anybody in politics when they're appearing in public is to sweat.
. . Fear is often described as False Evidence Appearing Real.
Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.
irony is a way of having one's cake while appearing to eat it.
As a human being, you know that there are some days when you'd rather not talk to anybody - but I can't really do that anymore without appearing rude.
Acting is not a state of being. . . but a state of appearing to be. You can't be eight times a week without going stark staring mad. You've got to be in control.
Intuition is soul guidance, appearing naturally in man during those instants when his mind is calm.
