Rumi Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.
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So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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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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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.
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The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's a really interesting character because she does this.' I'm not like that at all. I'm not an actory actor.
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Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.
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You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.
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You have to create something from nothing.
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You have to be an optimist, right? You have to be critical, then you have to be an optimist. Or else you're really stupid.
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You know in the West they support realistic forces.
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When in doubt, you bring in relatives. Nepotism is a part of my work.
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When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.
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There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.
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I Sellotape whole tins of sardines to my face at night, attach two squeezed lemon rinds to my armadillo-skinned elbows, and put cucumber on my eyes. By the time I'm finished, I look like a fruit salad with added fish. In the morning, the pillow is pretty much a write-off.
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I have no contracts with my clients; just a handshake is enough.
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Folks have to pin me down because, for one thing, I don't have a laptop. I don't have an iPhone, and I refuse to carry them because they're immensely hackable.
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Maybe directors who are more interested in realism and naturalism come from cities, where they see things on their doorstep every day. But growing up as a kid in a very pretty but ever-so-slightly boring town, where not a great deal happened, encouraged me to be more escapist, more imaginative, and more of a daydreamer.
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I'm always amazed at anyone's interest in what I have to say.
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You are not a drop in a ocean You are entire ocean in a drop
