Jim Parsons Quotes
One of the things I'm always reminded of when I'm back on stage is how much you have to be aware of and in control of. There is no tight shot. There is no 'we're only shoulders-up this time.' No, from the top of your head to your pinky toe, you're telegraphing part of the story the entire time you're up there.
Quotes to Explore
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There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
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Flying down a tunnel of 1s and 0s is not how hacking is really done.
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My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.
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Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
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I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.
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Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.
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The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.
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I'm just going to have fun. Maybe that will be the most important thing to do.
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I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Hollywood's built on insecurity. People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way.
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There is a unique freshness when eating buckwheat noodles cold with plenty of herbs and citrus acidity. I can't think of any better use of chopsticks on a hot and sweaty evening.
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She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.
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Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939 for a nice partner to come along. It became an electric rhythm section, and that changed everything.
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I was brought up in a world of privilege.
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It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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I think when you're young and have that first burst of energy and make five or six pictures in a row that tell the stories of all the things in life you want to say... well, maybe those are the films that should have won me the Oscar.
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One of the things I'm always reminded of when I'm back on stage is how much you have to be aware of and in control of. There is no tight shot. There is no 'we're only shoulders-up this time.' No, from the top of your head to your pinky toe, you're telegraphing part of the story the entire time you're up there.
