Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won’t come in. If you challenge your own, you won’t be so quick to accept the unchallenged assumptions of others.
ALAN ALDATestosterone Poisoning: … Until now it has been thought that the level of testosterone in men is normal simply because they have it.
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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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It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn’t look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy – I mean Jimmy as the character.
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Don’t be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found.
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They’re supposed to be gigantic explosions and they’re just these insignificant little dots. If you step back from things far enough you realize how important and powerful you are.
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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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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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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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Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
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I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn’t really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you’re trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.
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Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
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What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
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