“If I have a lack of dedication or focus, it’s permanently there as a negative reminder.”

It’s great when people appreciate your work, but I don’t know how seriously to take it.

It’s interesting because you feel on the one hand, we understand people from what the say, and in another sense.

And the level of intense tragedy that so many people have experienced in this world,

Something that I’ve always loved and appreciated is the chance to see something about someone’s character.

A little bit of attention and kindness can totally change a whole life, and a lack of that can do the same.

Learned how to survive without anything.

It’s been very helpful for my career, but I’m trying to stay on the path I was on before.

My dad told me, ‘It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success’, and it took me seventeen and a half years.

So there’s more competition, so you have to work harder and be right for it.

The problem is when you become so well known that everyone is watching you and you don’t have an opportunity to observe.

Part of what attracted me to the village was it had a lot of parallels to contemporary issues.

You meet a pretty girl, you’re different from when you meet a tough kid on the street.

We were all kind of thrown into the woods and we didn’t have any of the modern conveniences that we take for granted.

So that isn’t the concern. You have to do what you can do, and share what you feel is appropriate to share in the moment.

I take a lot less for granted.

The normal routine is always the same thing whether it’s on a new movie or a new job

The reflexive mechanism of the mind -or whatever it is that allows us to be self-conscious – is cut off or permanently suspended so the mind is ever after held in a fixed now moment out of which it cannot move in its uninterrupted gaze upon the Unknown

Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.

Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.

People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.

A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.