William Blake Quotes
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
Quotes to Explore
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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I tell you, in this world, being a little crazy helps to keep you sane.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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It is one thing to tell the citizens of some faraway country to go to hell, but it is another to do the same to your own citizens, who are supposedly your ultimate sovereigns.
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The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.
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I go light on breakfast. Sometimes it's a yogurt, but a lot of times it's leftovers from one of my wife's dinners.
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If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
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That's the reality of my life - I do normal things and then get to go to film festivals and wear borrowed clothes and turn up at premieres and talk about things I am passionate about. But then you click back to normality and your family and friends.
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I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.
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If I'm extremely bored and I don't have a book with me and I'm being an obnoxious teenager, I'll read 'BuzzFeed' on my phone. But even that just leaves me feeling icky because I think for some reason my comfort zone is to just not really be in the loop about stuff like awards shows or things like that.
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All fame is is having people you don't know coming up to you and saying, 'Hello.' I'm always polite and people are always nice, but it's weird.
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If we perform as a unit and if every single player gives it his very best, everything can happen.
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The reality is our story and the way we love and our taste in clothing and everything else. And what we ambitiously feel we can be.
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Your own level of self-acceptance is determined largely by how well you feel you are accepted by the important people in your life.
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Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good.
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Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.
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The source of genius is imagination alone.
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fantasizing is one of the earliest languages in the child's mind. We are in touch with our imagination and dreams before we engage with logic and reason.
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The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
