When I first started my acting career, I only knew what my acting teacher taught me. When a director gave me an impromptu direction, I didn't know what he wanted me to do, and I wanted to escape from the place.
Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.
Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.
One can only improvise what one knows.
When I was 28, I made this film called 'Drinking Buddies' that I starred in and produced, and we improvised the entire thing, and it was a complete exercise in freedom of expression in making something for only the purpose of making it, not for recognition or money or anything else, and it's still my favorite thing I've ever done.
Yeah, improvising only really works 100% when you're with somebody.
If you go back in time you'll find tribes that were essentially only concerned with their own tribal members. If you were a member of another tribe, you could be killed with impunity.
To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.
In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.
The only siblings I have are half-siblings. My nuclear family would have been an extra-suffocating threesome. Instead, I have an interesting brother and sister, in-laws, and darling nephews.
I never worry about action, but only inaction.
In thinking about male identities, I'm struck by the inadequacy of the terms we use. The notion that men should be distant, domineering and self-seeking is often described as toxic masculinity, but this serves only to alienate those who might need most help.
Once the Supreme Court in 1973 decided that infanticide could be legal, it not only ended America's 'inalienable right to life,' it threw the Golden Rule right off the shores of this continent.
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.
My efforts have been to not only put the Biblical incident in the original setting, but at the same time give the human touch which makes the whole world kin and which ever remains the same.
Football was always a deal we made with ourselves. We adopted it for its brutality, which was embedded in a context that happened to be perfectly suited to television and to gambling, but which we could convince ourselves was only incidental to our enjoyment because it was only incidental to the game itself.
A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for something.
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
