Black Elk Quotes
Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished.
Quotes to Explore
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The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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It takes me about a week and a half to really analyze a game - play by play.
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German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov -
In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well.
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Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
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It's not that I don't want a fast car. I like the speed. I'm just not the type of person who finds a sports car a sexy car.
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I'm not attracted to naturalism, I'm not attracted to behavior, I'm attracted to dance. I'm attracted to gesture, I'm attracted to singing with your voice, as opposed to having a natural manner. I'm a theater actor first, so that probably influences a lot of my approach. And I think in many ways, naturalism has ruined movies.
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With any book, I try to find where the manner of the making of the book is appropriate to the matter of the subject.
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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
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A lot of people still like Solaris, but I'm in active competition with them, and so I hope they die.
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Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished.
