What I had to learn from Kim is how to take more of her advice and less of other people's advice. There's a lot of Kim K skills that were added. In order to win at life, you need some Kim K skills, period.
I knew that I needed to do something that I desperately loved. There was a period where I did question if it was acting because I knew that I would be making things hard on myself. I knew that there was going to be a little bit of a hullabaloo because of my dad being who he is and all that.
When you get new people in, you're going to have a breath of fresh air and there's going to be a window when people will decide what direction to go. It'll be determined by outside events, by the personalities that occupy those positions, and by the treatment they receive both from the press and the public, of the honeymoon period.
. . . I went through a very lethargic period. . . I was just sort of getting through every night and every day.
One size NEVER fits all. One size fits one. Period
Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
The one thing that does happen, every time, though, is that I never get to write a book until I've already been thinking about it for a period of months to years.
I've learned over a period of years there are setbacks when you come up against the immovable object; sometimes the object doesn't move.
The danger of our culture. - We belong to a period of which the culture is in danger of being destroyed by the appliances of culture.
There's a period just before you start a movie when you start thinking, I don't know what in the world I'm going to do. It's free-floating anxiety. In my case, though, this is over by lunch the first day of shooting.
I hate the word "method acting. " It's just so silly. You hear people going, "Yeah I'm a method actor. " I'm like, "So what happens if you're playing a period film or something? You're in the Second World War. And what happens when your mom calls you on your phone? Do you go, 'Oh! What is this strange talking brick device?'" No. It's stupid. But you do everything you can to get in that mindset.
It was a period when live TV was just starting and getting popular and they took it seriously too. Not so much like TV now. They did [Ernst] Hemingway and [William] Faulkner - and they're all wonderful artists and it just was very creative at that time.
I basically sat down for a month, with all the Sun stuff I could find and just picked out my favorites. I didn't think that they were indicative of '54 to '57, although I tried to stay within that period.
I feel a lot older than I am but at the same time I don't want to play too old on T. V. I still want to be young. I still want to be 20 and enjoy this period of my life where I still have that flexibility.
There is a period in life when we go backwards as we advance.
Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.
When you see period films, it tends to often be with older actors.
In a very short period of time, actors can become kind of relevant and hot.
I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing.
Youth is not a period in life but a state of mind.
