When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect.
ALAN ALDAJean Paul Sartre says in “No Exit” that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.
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Everyone opens up to one another right away. That’s a terrific thing. I love that about actors. They know how personal this job is.
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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.
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I’ve been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I’m nominated as actor in a supporting part.
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I dont see we can have a separation of church and state in this government if you have to pass a religious test to get in this government.
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Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
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A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
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Insanity is just a state of mind.
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I’ve been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity.
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And I want to warn everyone in the press and all the voters out there: if you demand expressions of religious faith from politicians, you are just begging to be lied to.
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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I’d said in a book I wrote that I wasn’t a believer.
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It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
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I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.
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The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
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I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don’t exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.
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My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
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What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.
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No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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Everybody’s on their toes and focused on what we’re about to do, and then there’s this moment where you relax because you see that everybody is there to do the best that they can.
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Be brave enough to live creatively.
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War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
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