Richard Feynman Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I'm constantly thinking about the role, and there's an infinite amount of questions you can ask yourself about a character to the point that it's hard to find the boundaries of when to not work.
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I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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Having a child makes you strong and gives you chutzpah. It relaxed my attitude to the job; my center of focus shifted, which I think is very helpful, because even if you're not a very indulgent actor you spend a lot of time thinking about yourself. I don't think that is particularly healthy.
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Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
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Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
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I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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If you never give up, you'll be successful.
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If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.
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Laurel Canyon is kind of grotesque. It's this nature-themed place, and everybody is kind of angry.
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What's great in theater is that you can sustain the arc of a character for a full three hours, whereas in film or TV, you have to create that arc in little pieces, and usually out of sequence.
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By being friends with all, we are not alone.
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We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.
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People think artists like 50 Cent don't have charisma, but it's just a different kind of charisma, a bully charisma, which is kinda frowned upon.
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Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.
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I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.
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I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.
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Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.
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When you have balance in your life, work becomes an entirely different experience. There is a passion that moves you to a whole new level of fulfillment and gratitude, and that's when you can do your best... for yourself and for others.
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I've had many nicknames over the years: V, Nessa, Nessy Poo, Nessy Bear and Van. Only my parents call me Van, though, and I hate it. I get embarrassed.
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I'm left-handed: I can think and feel at the same time. My feminine side is very highly developed.
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The actors work out how to create the show with me during the rehearsals. They owe it to themselves and each other to maintain that contract regardless of what the critics say.
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Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.
