"In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin."

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Children Quotes #Play Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better.”
“Now Heaven and Earth are older than the temples, and older than the Scriptures.”

Source : Tape recording to Joe Romersa, 1992.
“I think there are certain ways that people are always themselves, but I do think people change”

Source : "HBO's 'Enlightened' Take On Modern Meditation". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.nhpr.org. October 10, 2011.
“You can't become a dictator through checks and balances.”
“The early Triassic was a period when the planet was recovering from the worst mass extinction it had ever known - that was the end Permian extinction, where climate change caused in part by mega-volcanic eruptions wiped out ninety-five percent of life on Earth. It took about ten or twenty million years for the planet's ecosystems to stabilize. During that time you saw a lot of weird, out-of-balance ecosystems where, for example, crocodile-like predators ripped the crap out of each other along the coasts.”
“I've always been interested in fashion, the clothes, but I'm not that familiar with the fashion industry; for me it just comes out of quite an innocent sense of style.”
“He was gorgeous, and I absolutely, no question, had to be drooling. After a quick and hopefully stealthy check â€“ big show, I wasnâ€™t!- I found myself wonder what color his eyes were. Brown maybe. Or even hazel. Either wayâ€¦wow, just wow. Deer? Headlights? Hi, Iâ€™m Ali.”
“Reserved as he [Confucius] was about the supernatural, he was not without it; somewhere in the universe there was a power that was on the side of right.”

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