Rumi Quotes
You are an ocean in a drop of dew, all the universes in a thin sack of blood. What are these pleasures then, these joys, these worlds that you keep reaching for, hoping they will make you more alive?
Quotes to Explore
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You have to be un-comfortably comfortable in this business. There's always somebody else who wants what you have.
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I would love to go help baby sea turtles back into the ocean after hatching in Mexico.
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.
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When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
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It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
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When you do scenes that are just exposition, they feel false.
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You don't choose who you sit next to in a theater. You sit in a theater, and there's an energy that happens.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.
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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
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Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.
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Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
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If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.
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If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours... what are you?
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Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
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For if you train hard and responsibly your confidence surges to a maximum.
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When you do bad things, bad things happen to you.
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Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.
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I literally couldn't get anyone to hire me. Having a woman do sports was seen as too risky.
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When you're the youngest and the only boy, you get spoilt but you get told you're spoilt so you don't get to enjoy it very much. I was the only man in the house because my parents divorced and my dad moved away when I was 13.
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I don't like to consider myself a normal preacher. When you look at religious people, they're the ones who hung Christ from the cross. I look at myself as a man carrying a message of hope.
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You are an ocean in a drop of dew, all the universes in a thin sack of blood. What are these pleasures then, these joys, these worlds that you keep reaching for, hoping they will make you more alive?
