William James Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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My story is endless. I put in a teletype roll, you know, you know what they are, you have them in newspapers, and run it through there and fix the margins and just go, go - just go, go, go.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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People don't just want a mindless flick with a superstar; they want to connect more deeply.
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?
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I am a citizen of the world.
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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 may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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If my daughter has a bad dream and wants to get into my bed, I'm a sucker for her sweet face and warm body next to mine, so I let her jump in. I should tell her to go to bed, but secretly I love it.
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My wife is pretty geeky and will occasionally quote 'Anchorman' at me.
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Filming 'Eclipse' - Eclipse was my favorite book so I was really excited to start filming the movie. I just love that it's the height of the love triangle. 'Twilight' develops Edward and Bella's relationship, 'New Moon' develops Jacob and Bella's and in 'Eclipse,' the three of them are physically together.
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It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.
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Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.
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I complained to my mother about wanting to look less like myself and more like my friends. My mother then gave me a lesson in embracing my differences and loving them despite what others said.
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The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.
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They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
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Emotions should be real; one shouldn't come across as acting.
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It's not necessarily about what career you pick. It's about how you do what you do.
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You’ve been assigned an identity since birth. Then you spend the rest of your life walking around in it to see if it really fits. You try on all these different selves and abandon just as many. But really it’s about dismantling all that false armor, getting down to what’s real.
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For me, a story's a story if people want to hear it; it's very much based on oral storytelling. And for me, a story is a story when people give me the privilege of listening when I'm speaking it out loud.
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I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.
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If he had had no education, maybe Basho could have been a much greater poet.
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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
