The authentic experience, where is that? Living the moment. That is something that we're losing.
The more you are positive and say, 'I want to have a good life,' the more you build that reality for yourself by creating the life that you want.
The mythic journey is always about selflessness.
Life flies by, and it's easy to get lost in the blur. In adolescence, it's 'How do I fit in?' In your 20s, it's 'What do I want to do?' In your 30s, 'Is this what I'm meant to do?' I think the trick is living the questions. Not worrying so much about what's ahead but rather sitting in the grey area - being OK with where you are.
Therapy's like going to the gym.
Whether you're scared of getting into a relationship; or taking the new job; or a confrontation - you have to size fear up.
What am I going to tweet about? My sneakers?
The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don't have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.
I grew up in a house where my father went on auditions, and he got some and he lost some, and there were good years and lean years. I didn't expect anything from the business, and that's often a danger in Hollywood, the notion that if you're pretty and have white teeth and just show up for the game then you'll win.
Mediocrity scares me. It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that fear, it will sabotage you. As much as I can, I try to use that fear to guide me.
Critics think we try to make bad films. They think we want to spend five months of our lives making something bad. We always go out with the best of intentions, whether it's fluffy comedy or a drama.
There are going to be good times and bad times, but lighten up.
The great thing about theater is that you have so much time to prepare, and to fail, before presenting it to the public. In film, the high-wire act seems to be that much farther up, and the net seems to be less there.
For me growing up, Christmas time was always the most fantastic, exciting time of year, and you'd stay up until three in the morning. You'd hear the parents wrapping in the other room but you knew that also, maybe, they were in collusion with Santa Claus.
Film is just a different version of what we did round the campfire when we were Neanderthals. We tell stories so people can learn things and relativise things.
Musical theater is great; you get painted up, you get to play princesses and witches, and you sing. The joy alone of that can really carry a lot.
I like a fragrance that you notice and want to find out more about - get a bit closer. I don't want to walk in and be jolted awake by someone's smell.
Not a fan of spiders. I saw the movie 'Arachnophobia,' which was single-handedly rated in the top three worst choices of my life.
More than anything, what we do as actors is to sit and watch, and I would never want to get so lost in the celebrity bubble I couldn't do that because my feet no longer touch the ground.
The mass audience doesn't want to see you if you aren't perfect. If you don't look a certain way, if you don't have big pecs and great skin and the perfect eyes. And it's unfortunate, because kids are growing up with body image dysmorphia because not everyone is represented on the screen.
Growing up in a family of actors, what's great about it is that they're very supportive and they understand what it's like to be an actor - the rejections, the highs and lows... and having a common language with them is great because you have shorthand speech.
I work out because that's my job, but what I enjoy about it, beyond the vanity, is the Zen of it. I like getting out of my head, and one great way to do that is to sweat your face off. And to know that, if you're thinking of anything else, you're not working intensely enough.
I think the first thing that I saw on IMAX was 'The Avengers.' The scope and the size of it are pretty neat, I will say that.
I cry all the time - at work, at the shrink's, with my lady. 'The Notebook' killed me. 'Up' destroyed me.
I was a shy kid, a late bloomer. At 22, I was probably 16 emotionally.
My fans have designated themselves the, uh, 'Pine Nuts.' They're a nutty bunch.
I would love to do more theatre, musicals... everything.
You have to be able to carry a conversation. I think after the initial attraction kind of dies down. The lust dies down. There has to be the thing that engages you.
Generally speaking, the more money that's involved in anything, the more people are expecting and hoping that it's not going to fail.
I do like dating cynics - they tend to be incredibly funny.
I performed and sang at school but as a child it was never anything I was interested in doing professionally.
I believe in luck and fate and I believe in karma, that the energy you put out in the world comes back to meet you.
My nana was an actress, my mom was an actress, and my sister, too. So because I was surrounded by it, it really came naturally.
I'm more cerebral than I want to be.
I've worked Keira Knightley quite a bit and Kevin Costner.
We come from fallible parents who were kids once, who decided to have kids and who had to learn how to be parents. Faults are made and damage is done, whether it's conscious or not. Everyone's got their own 'stuff,' their own issues, and their own anger at Mom and Dad. That is what family is. Family is almost naturally dysfunctional.
Any actor wants to do interesting roles, different roles. It's not all that much fun to do the same thing over and over again.
After many years of self-flagellation, I've realised that beating myself up doesn't get me anywhere.
Anytime you take on a character... you just have to find the parts of the character that you can understand.
When you feel like an oddball, it never really leaves you. Even now, I'm better around people who are uncomfortable with themselves - the misfits.
Everybody's got family, or they don't have family, but they come from somewhere.
I don't know any kid that's not afraid at some point going to bed with the lights off, totally. That's why they make nightlights.
For me, work is one thing, and my life is another.
Fear runs our lives. It doesn't matter who you are. You have to understand your relationship with fear. Whether you're scared of getting into a relationship; or taking the new job; or a confrontation - you have to size fear up.
'Star Trek' is about a bunch of disparate people and what they're capable of when they work together.
I really like the ritual of shaving. I like getting the perfect brush and finding the right sandalwood soap. The act of shaving, though, is not fun. I like beards and the ease of them.
I have worked hard to get where I am.
As an actor, it easy to be so self-critical, saying to yourself, 'Am I good enough? Am I good looking enough? Am I smart enough?'
I usually just end up at home on my couch - reading.
The more you are positive and say, 'I want to have a good life,' the more you build that reality for yourself by creating the life that you want.
If you had no real training, if you hadn't spent years and years studying a martial art, how would you kill the bad guy?
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