On My Way Quotes

Theater is a very changeable art. It responds to the moment in history the way the newspaper does, and there's no predicting what to come up with next.

It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking at them, that makes us happy or the reverse.

A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself.

Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child.

The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others.

A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles, for then he is off his guard.

But we have been taught to see before our eyes have found out a way of seeing for themselves.

I found a way for her to fall asleep, Paris Hilton, talk to herself.

Because God and the devil could be one and the same thing, and everybody understood it in his own way.

If you're not religious, then look at it this way. This world of ours is four thousand, six hundred million years old. It could end in an afternoon.

The great irony is that people who live in remote areas, who are illiterate and don't own TVs, are in some ways more free because they are beyond the reach of indoctrination by the modern mass media.

I've never looked at myself and thought "Oh yeah, I'm sexy." I've felt sexy and confident, but I don't look at myself that way.

There's gonna be a time when I'm way curvier, and that'll be sexy too. What defines sexy is not someone's weight. Personally I like curves. I wanna look good for me. I wanna feel good.

Here is a guaranteed way to get more of what you want: want less.

Scientists say we use 10% of our brain. That's way too much. By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.

How can you call it unreasonable when all I want is my own way?

If I do enough different things in enough different ways, I may, eventually, do something right.

There ought to be a better way than government to run the world.

I loved music. I played the piano. However I knew there was no way I could have successfully competed in that environment.

I think that I'm very old fashioned in terms of my film references and what appeals to me, in a way with camera moves and a depth of color to bring things to it.

I love women that have an ease to the way they dress. I think Vanessa Paradis and Alexa Chung do that very well.

A colorful Chanel bag is a way to mix up anything.

It often looks like an actor's had a big break out of nowhere, but in reality, they've been working their way up, little by little, for a while.

You can't control the things that happen to you, but you can control the way you feel about them.

I always liked running as a kid. You know how eating chocolate or ice cream makes you feel good? That's the same way that running and competing makes me feel.

Be careful with the man jewelry. A little goes a long way.

I think I probably think about myself as an actor, which is the way most people do. I think I'm good, I don't think I'm great. I think I would hire somebody else to play me in the movie about me.

I've been way too blessed. Had too much fun, too many rewards.

Working on the themes I was interested in, through the context of a particular family, was a very economical way of dealing with a lot of the issues I was concerned with.

But my message to people with or without a condition is the fact that you can still do anything you set your mind to. You just have to do it in a slightly different way than other people.

When you start to realize life isn't fair, what do you do: curl up and die or fight every second of the way?

I'm not a super emotional person, so that's one reason I love acting - it makes me deal with myself in that kind of way.

It's easy to spend - especially in this day and age - to spend your time not being in the present. It's very easy to be way ahead. What's tomorrow and the day after that?

Now I wonder if it means that the future is a place, or like a place, that I could go to; that is go to in some way other than just getting older.

I keep myself busy. Time goes faster that way.

Do you ever miss him? Every day. Every minute. Every minute, she says. Yes, it's that way, isn't it?

I think that if you do an American movie it's important to earn some money, but in a stupid way, to be respected.

I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it.

My mother began to go crazy. Not in a 'Let's paint the kitchen red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas oven, toothpaste sandwhich, I am God' sort of way.

Writing has enriched my life in ways I never imaged.

A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman: a gentleman, in the vulgar superficial way of understanding the word, is the Devil's Christian.

Religion is about increasing peace and harmony in the world. ... People of all different religions should be given the opportunity to pursue good in their own way.

If suffering were an unavoidable part of our existence, we should try to alleviate it as far as possible in practical, earthly ways.

People need security of the mind. Why do they want democracy? Because it can give them freedom and security in a balanced way.

As I have been paving my career as a filmmaker my parents have been there for me every step of the way. They have believed in my dreams despite how steep the mountain has been.

The best way to get started on the path of sharing your work is to think about what you want to learn, and make a commitment to learning it in front of others.

I don't really listen to music before the game. I mean, I play it in my car on the way to the arena, but I don't really listen to music before the game. I'm usually working out or lifting weights.

I hope to shine through my transparency and just let people know that we are all the same. I want children to look at things different like "You're shining too! You just shine in a different way."

The book and the film [This Changes Everything] fed into each other in ways that were compounding and very exciting. The pain was shared.

If our financial industry regarded security the way the health-care sector does, I would stuff my cash in a mattress under my bed.