Once you learn what life is about, there is no way to erase that knowledge. If you try to do something else with your life, you will always sense that you are missing something
I'm just trying to understand what's around me as much as anyone else is, really. To draw a bead on a moving target.
I try to be like a sponge when I'm around other actors, picking things up about the way they work and how they do things.
I try to look for the good in everybody, regardless of the way they're labeled.
Look, when people came after me for doing 'Indecent Proposal' or 'Disclosure,' I thought, 'Ridiculous. ' These people are trying to limit me as an actor. Are they saying I can't play these roles? Well, I've proved I can.
I think I'm pretty fearless. I like to try things at least once, things that I never thought that I would try.
Stuff with a group, stuff where there are other people around, I'll try that.
In the UK a lot of people don't like to try. There's a different cultural thing. Here [in USA] if you try and fail, you get up again and start again and keep going. People respect you for it. Even if you keep failing, they respect the tenacity.
If we are trying to account for mobilization, we have to ask, under what conditions do outraged forms of knowing lead to social mobilizations and movements? So awareness alone does not suffice, and neither does outrage.
I've always been like this - trying to find adventure where it's still in its first élan - the first spring.
You're damned if you're too thin and you're damned if you're too heavy. According to the press I've been both. Its impossible to satisfy everyone and I suggest we stop trying.
I'm not saying it's a bad thing to do, but when you try to deal with prescient themes in the present, that is what you're doing.
We are not wounded so deeply when betrayed by the things we hope for as when betrayed by things we try our best to despise. In such betrayal comes the dagger in the back.
I try to make my mood uplifting and peaceful, then watch the world around me reflect that mood.
Walking is my main method of relaxation. I don't go over my lines or try to solve the world's problems, I just enjoy the scenery and the wildlife.
I try to stay clear of karaoke because it normally involves an excess amount of drinking.
Try not to trip. We don’t have time for a concussion today.
It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it, instead of the poems that only you can write.
Immortality is what nature possesses without effort and without anybody's assistance, and immortality is what the mortals must therefore try to achieve if they want to live up to the world into which they were born, to live up to the things which surround them and to whose company they are admitted for a short while.
Why can’t I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which fits best and is more becoming?