Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn't alone in my obsessive love for words and music.
I have realized that mystery is what keeps people away, and I've grown tired of smoke and mirrors. I yearn for the clean, well-lighted place. So let's peek behind the curtain and hail the others like us. The open-faced sandwiches who take risks and live big and smile with all of their teeth. These are the people I want to be around. This is the honest way I want to live and love and write.
I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.
I started out wanting to be a straight adventure cartoonist, but in 1979 realized what my real bag was.
The first day I went to law school, I realized I'd made a huge mistake. It was nothing like what I thought.
What I've realized in the last year, 80% of my act has already happened to me, and it's not until you retell the story at a party or to a friend or it comes up on the podcast that you, I don't know why I'm not doing that onstage!
And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn't crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I cried because he would never do them again.
I love doing comedy. Absolutely love it. After 'Wedding Crashers,' people suddenly realized that it was something I could do.
We sort of quickly realized every rhythm, Opetaia [Foa'i] takes the lead.
You never realized how thick your fog was until it lifted.
As an actor, I look at scenes much differently than I would look at them as a director, and I never realized that until it actually happened.
After years of working in professional kitchens, and then spending so much time in a lot of different home kitchens, I realized that there's a huge gap in the market where you have people who develop cookware but who don't actually cook.
I found every single laugh as Laertes that you can find and only realized later that you really shouldn't find any at all.
It is a terrible thing to want something you cannot have. It takes you over. I couldn't think straight because of it. There was no one else, I realized, whom I could possibly tell.
Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.
If you were a fully realized person-whatever the hell that would be-you wouldn't fool around writing books.
Tatiana realized she was too young to hide well what was in her heart but old enough to know that her heart was in her eyes.
It wasn't until I was in college that I even realized how much I loved film and started to appreciate acting, this beautiful medium of artistic expression. All I wanted to do was go to college, and I thought I wanted to be a teacher.
I made a list of the happiest periods of my life & I realized that none of them involve money.
Anything can happen if you are willing to put in the work and remain open to the possibility. Dreams are realized by effort, determination, passion and staying connected to that sense of who you are.