Way Quotes - Page 664

The theater is a tough place. It's not cushioned the way it is in film and television.

I'm totally Italian, but I'm not a diva. If you could see the way I'm dressed in daily life, that's not a diva. Appearances are so not important to me.

The most ethical way to deal with an unethical situation would be to simply say: 'We did something wrong.' But nobody in a family like mine would ever respond like this.

Riders called me up afterwards to say that they had had no other choice. I couldn't understand the way they changed their tune.

An electronic instrument is just harboring a natural element the same way that a guitar is harboring an acoustic element. It's all nature, really.

When I look at a character, whether he's good or bad, one scene or 10 scenes, I just have to find my way in.

When you go away for a month on tour, there's only so much information you can take in. You're traveling city by city every day. I think five of the 30 days you actually keep with you and the rest becomes mush. And when you get back you're really mushy.

When you are a pit bull, and you love what you do and you are going to continue to grow, that talent will find its way out.

When I'm meant to be standing in the wings, the only way to go is the ladies' toilets. It's the only time I've ever acted in the toilets.

There are two sure ways to lose a friend, one is to borrow, the other to lend.

Also, worldbuilding touches all aspects of your story. It touches plot and character as well. If you don't know the culture your character comes from, how can you know what he's really like? You must know your characters on a much deeper level than you would if you just shrugged your way into a cookie cutter fantasy world.

You never do things the easy way, do you?" she said. "There's an easy way?" I asked.

Just pity him, my boy. Tomorrow we'll be on our way, but he'll have to keep his own disagreeable company until the day he dies.

The only place you belong is the place you can never go back. And so yer always alone, forever and always.

Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it.

Theater is a way to keep challenging myself.

You get a role like this in a big action movie [like Jack Reacher] and you can go one of two ways: you can paint in broad strokes, which happens a lot in action films, or you can get very detailed.

It's important to feel and to be connected to your emotions, whichever way they play out.

Listen to your customers but don't (always) believe what they say-they know even less about the future than you.

The best way to catch my attention is to throw a Twinkie near my face.

The scars are a way of reminding me that the past is real. They are honorable.

It is possible to have second chances. When I thought everything was lost, when I reached bottom and things didn't go my way, the universe gave me a second chance.

In many ways, the ability to read is the great divide that separates the very young from everyone else. Once we've joined the conspiracy of the literate, once we've crossed over to the land of the reading, everything changes.

The reasons kids get into trouble in one way or another is because - Who ever told them they were special?

Sometimes when we’re in situations where we feel we’re not in control, we do things, especially things that take a lot of energy, as a way of making ourselves feel we have some power.