I don't know very much about, honestly, about the Middle East, and yet I've played a lot of different people from a lot of different cultures. The thing that I notice is that we're all - there is a core of humanity that travels right through every culture. And, after all, we're all from Africa originally.
I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honoured to be that way for young actors.
I think you have to listen to the people who are deeply unhappy. You have to find the source of it and not overreact to the craziness in it.
I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.
I'm really interested in the collaborative thing. It's what makes it scary because you never know what it's going to end up like. But you hope. You put yourself in the hands of the best people you can find, and you're completely dependent on the kindness of strangers and their commitment. It's like this mutual delusion.
Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you.
It's amazing how easily people are led to fury and chaos. Unhappy people with guns are not going to make this country great.
People at agencies and studios, including the parent boards, might look around the table at the decision-making level and feel something is wrong if half their participants are not women. Because our tastes are different, what we value is different. Not better, different.
Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference.
The aggregate of everybody's emotion, it's such a powerful thing. You can see it in the Trump rallies, where people - I just know, in their living rooms, would be better people - are driven to the worst possibilities by the bloodlust in a crowd. It just gets ginned up, and they're outside of themselves.
There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material. My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.
How you think determines how you act. How you act in turn determines how others react to you. - David J. Schwartz
The only real basis other people have for judging your abilities is your actions. And your actions are controlled by your thoughts. - David J. Schwartz
Anybody is able to doubt me. I say, 'Come with your criticism to polish the diamond of the truth.' People need to wake up to their own power. Everybody has this nature. - Wim Hof
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