Thing Quotes

Maybe that’s why I was left out of a lot of things, or why my work was not really understood, because there was no precedent for it.

If you’re crazy, there’s two things you can do to make yourself feel better: One is to get yourself cured. The other is to make everyone you have to deal with crazy.

One of the things I tell about Refugee is that unless you’re Native American or a descendant of slaves.

Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things–to help, or at least to do no harm.

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.

You find parallels, points of connection, things like that. But I’m not an actor who gets so incredibly haunted by my characters that I can’t come back.

That’s more the kind of thing that get us inspired.

As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.

That’s the day I realized that there was this entire life behind things, and this incredibly benevolent force that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever.