Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes
Tarzan must act quickly or his prey would be gone; but Tarzan's life training left so little space between decision and action when an emergency confronted him that there was not even room for the shadow of a thought between.
Quotes to Explore
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I love when actors can let go of where and how they have to do it, and just that we do it. That we are flawed and human, and don't worry about how we look or who we are, or that it seems too old of a character if we're still young.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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One rose says more than the dozen.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well.
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I remember the absolute, joyous freedom I felt when I first went to college: I had no bedtime, no curfew, no rules - I loved it. I was in charge. I couldn't believe I didn't have to answer to anyone.
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Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.
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I was doing acting work at Fox - bit pieces with Greg Peck in The Gunfighter and things like that - and grew up more or less as a Fox contract player in about two years.
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A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.
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I just think my children and your children would be much better off and much more successful getting married and raising a family, and I don't want them brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally valid and successful option - it isn't.
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Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been.
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Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower.
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After college, I did a bunch of different jobs - taught English in Mexico, worked in public radio, worked for a web design company - but there was something about documentaries that really attracted me.
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In order to understand the interrelation of truth and falsehood in life, a man must understand falsehood in himself, the constant incessant lies he tells himself.
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I don't watch TV; it's pretty weird, I know.
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Tarzan must act quickly or his prey would be gone; but Tarzan's life training left so little space between decision and action when an emergency confronted him that there was not even room for the shadow of a thought between.
