I have no way of knowing how people really feel but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark back.
The security comes as an actor in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career or how people perceive you you'll make yourself unhappy because life doesn't work like that. So much is luck. It's much better to let yourself off to think 'There's nothing I can do.'
Work joyfully and peacefully knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.
You can't get there by bus only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
John Currin's exaggerated realism and his twisted women kept me off balance never knowing if they were sincere or ironic or some new emotion.
I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.
The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions.
I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often cynicism is confused with wisdom and my scorn is confused with a knowing which I don't have.
One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.
Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.
Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.
Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next virtue is doing it.
Knowing others is wisdom knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
With acting you wanna see if you can get into trouble without knowing how you're gonna get out of it. It's like the exact opposite of war where you need an exit strategy. When you're acting you should get all the way into trouble with no exit strategy and have the cameras rolling.
To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.