I think what art is always doing is making us see the world so differently, and I don't mean just colors and light, but re-thinking relationships, spatial relationships, psychological relationships. . . those who gravitate to the art world actually want to be puzzled.
My dad is a chemical engineer, and my mom was a teacher. They were pretty serious about education, but I always thought about things a little bit differently.
Do the other kids make fun of you? For how you talk?' 'Sometimes. ' 'So why don't you do something about it? You could learn to talk differently, you know. ' But this is my voice. How would you be able to tell when I was talking?
When we were doing Bullets over Broadway, he told me to be more fragile and I thought I was, but he saw it completely differently.
I do things differently, because I don't go by a rule book, because I lead from the heart, not the head, and albeit that's got me into trouble in my work, I understand that.
When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.
Some of the old folk singers used to phrase things in an interesting way, and then, I got my style from seeing a lot of outdoor-type poets, who would recite their poetry. When you don't have a guitar, you recite things differently, and there used to be quite a few poets in the jazz clubs, who would recite with a different type of attitude.
It's a point of pride that no one would treat me any differently because I'm an actor than if I was a gardener.
Sometimes I feel so stupid and dull and uncreative that I am amazed when people tell me differently.
From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and that the only way to place them in an equal position would be to treat them differently. Equality before the law and material equality are therefore not only different but are in conflict with each other; and we can achieve either one or the other, but not both at the same time
I have no regrets about my life. People ask, "If you had to do it all over again, would you do it differently?" No. That's speculation.
The top players in every field think differently when all the marbles are on the line. Great performers focus on what they are doing, and nothing else. . . They let it happen, let it go. They couldn't care less about the results.
Stress is a byproduct of subconscious beliefs you have about the world. You can't choose not to believe something. You believe it because you think it's true. To eliminate stress, you must learn to challenge these beliefs so that you see them differently.
I think there is no better way to invite a human being to view their body differently than by inviting them to be an athlete, by revering one's body as an instrument rather than just an ornament.
Once you are shooting a movie, even if it's your own script, you have to let it go at a certain point. That's true for every film. It breaks up into phases where the thing that you have in front of you is the thing you have to address, and you can't worry about what you imagined a scene was going to like and that it came out differently, because that's what you have to make work.
Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you're fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you're reading a whole new book.
I've always been just as interested in making people think as I am in making them feel, and one of the things this scientific process allows me to do is make the audience look differently at dance.
New places always help us look at life differently
I am very direct and I tend to treat everyone exactly the same, which sometimes gets me in trouble because some movie stars feel like they should be treated differently. But, when you're dealing with good actors, they really appreciate it.