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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I burned down my dorm room freshman year. I was that kid. When you live in small quarters with two guys, the smell in the room starts to take over a little bit. So we decided we wanted our room to smell like fresh baked cookies. So we order a cookie-dough-scented candle off eBay, and then we accidentally burn our room down with that candle.
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I started an all-girl punk band when I was 14, and I was the drummer, not the singer.
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People simply don't have room, physical room, to keep, for instance, 2-inch tape in the sort of quantities that are required to hold a full archive. It's not just a matter of having three or four boxes, it's 40, 90 boxes of 2-inch tape, and very few people have the resources that sort of stuff properly.
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Today it is even more important to dominate the . . . highly sophisticated weapon systems, perhaps even more important than being a good pilot; to make the best use of this system.
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Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.
