Quotes about "Mindfulness & Presence"

There's posh character actors. For God's sake, Olivier was one of the greatest character actors in the world. Hamlet, Shylock, Othello - Othello! Whether you like it or not. ”

If I can't get hold of someone I love, I'll assume they're being tied to a radiator by al-Qaeda rather than their battery's run out. I'm quite a worrier. ”

In 1996, when I was being treated for leukaemia, at one point I had a vicious infection that was trying to claim me. Mercifully, due to love and expertise, I pulled through. ”

You create a proto-human being out of people that you've encountered in your life, and you start building up this person and start becoming this person. ”

You're immortal, aren't you, until you get a little peek over the precipice. The thought of death...You're not supposed to start pondering it until you're old. And there's nothing like being told you've got a life-threatening disease to concentrate your mind on that. ”

You're trying to form this human being that will fit the bill, and the human being becomes a hand, and the research is a glove, and you try to bring this character together into the research, mesh it, and create this person that is the sum total of all that endeavor. ”

I think people's imaginations are being neutered by the amount of access they can get to information just by pressing a button. ”

There is that great thing of D.C. being Hollywood for ugly people. There's very distinct crossover behaviors. ”

I grew up in Maine working at a video store and found myself being pulled more and more to on-camera stuff. ”

I started out with the intention of studying physics. I was a terrible high school student outside of the fact that I did well in physics, but there's a big difference between being good at physics and being a physicist, so I jettisoned that very quickly. ”