On The Way Quotes

The difference between the first time I read something and the tenth time I read something is generally pretty profound. Even if the script is the same, just the way that I read it is different.

The thing of it is though that's the only way people know you, they see you in that roll and they see you in person and they only know the perception of what you are.

I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through.

Most of TV works this way: You try to get something up and running, and once you do, you just try to keep it going, because there's a lot of money involved.

While I think storytelling is a meaningful way to spend your life... it does feel a little bit secondary or off-point.

With Saturday Night Live you're looking for any hook, any way to stay on the show.

The old must pass away. It has served its purpose in the cycles of evolution and must now make way for a new, more expanded and more fruitful manifestation.

Our country is now at war and the only way out is forward. I would not change one word I have spoken against war but that is no longer the issue. We must now stand together.

No other nation killed people the way the United States did to end slavery.

One of the things about grief - I wouldn't generalise, because everybody responds to tragedies in different ways - but I had a huge amount of energy.

Highland has changed my entire way of working with scripts. I use it every day.

Teasing was big in my family, and there is a wonderful way to tease and make people feel more loved.

Giving orders you know won't be obeyed is one of the best ways I know to destroy your own authority.

And watch out for Molly. See if she does anything unusual. There’s something I don’t trust about the way she exploded and then came back from the dead like that.

You see, Frank found out the hard way that the dark things lurking in the night don’t haunt old houses or abandoned ships. They haunt minds.

Well, I have my immortal soul. At least, I'm pretty sure I didn't misplace it somewhere along the way.

There’s no key to the universe, you just have to point your way in one direction, keep going, keep going, keep going, and see what happens.

On tour, it's hard to do much writing, but if I'm on a deadline, I find a way.

I've only covered a few songs because I feel that if you're not going to go beyond the original artist in some way, then don't disrespect what they created.

I try to approach making movies in a way that it's about the making of them and not the result of them, if that makes sense.

The snow did not even whisper its way to earth, but seemed to salt the night with silence.

The things we worry about the most are never the things that bite us. The sharpest teeth always take their nip of us when we are looking the other way.

You can't always win arguments as a writer, but you have to just go ahead and say, well, I'm doing it that way anyway.

When you're a stand-up, you play in front of 600 people, and it's all about timing. I could never do stand-up comedy; it would be way too hard for me.

The way I look at it, I'm a guy who acts to live.

The pace of events is moving so fast that unless we can find some way to keep our sights on tomorrow, we cannot expect to be in touch with today.

The best way to persuade is with your ears.

Once you get away from where you're from, you look at it in a different way.

Yes, we do mimic our parents in a lot of ways.

I love Nashville, and I love the South, but on a professional level, I had started feeling smothered by the Nashville way of doing things.

I don’t know why we insist on pain when pain is so often easy to eliminate. It’s funny the ways we try to punish ourselves when we feel we’ve committed some crime.

I thought I might cry, the way you do when someone gives you some kindness when you most need it but when it seems the most surprising thing.

That's the only way I can control my movie. If you shoot everything, then everything is liable to end up in the movie. If you have a vision, you don't have to cover every scene.

I've managed to keep my career going in a way that suits me. I'll perform, and then I'll go home to my actual life, and I've never been so visible.

Readers have actually changed the way I've done things, changed the course of my career even, about four or five times. Just from reader feedback.

[Bob Fosse] was a temperamental fellow - it was his way or the highway.

We all have such common ways to identify with each other, and I think when you approach music in that organic way, it's almost indescribable how it connects human to human and heart to heart.

Music is such an intensely personal thing for me, and I knew if I was going to do it, it would be in my own way.

If we don't find a way to keep women in the workforce, keep them productive, keep them happy, we are literally just throwing our investment down the drain, and we can't afford to do that.

All of the secrets the vampires held dear have been exposed, and the humans can now fight back as equals in a way, which is scary.

Even just pestering people with questions, and being nosey and pushy and getting her way, are things I think many young women grow up struggling with, to assert themselves.

I was shy and a hard worker, so acting was a way to focus whatever nervous energy I was experiencing onto a goal.

I was planning on starting a new file on my computer with the title "Phrases That Sound One Way to Witches but Mean Something Else to Vampires.

Teen readers can see aspects of themselves in the teen authors, which in a way, validates their experiences.

Girls are not accustomed to jockeying for status in an obvious way; they are more concerned that they be liked.

I don't think that I'm that easy to live with. I have to be reminded that I can have fun. I need my family to remind me in a loving and nice way to lighten up.

I need my family to remind me in a loving and nice way to lighten up.

I am perfect as I am. Everything in my life is working just the way it should. I am loved, and I am love.

Love is a way of being, not something you give. When a person is truly loving, he is love.

Evolution leads the way through desire.