I have this feeling that if I could sort out what's on my dining room table, everything would fall into place.
Interpretation
Organizing the small aspects of life can lead to clarity and order in larger matters.
This quote reflects the idea that taking control of our immediate environment and sorting through our personal chaos can help us gain perspective on our broader challenges. By addressing the tangible issues in our lives, such as those represented by a cluttered dining room table, we may find that solutions to our more significant problems become clearer and more manageable.
In practice
During a motivational speech about overcoming obstacles.
Film has to be reflecting the world that we live in, and that's all you want to be a part of. Actors inhabit the same planet as everyone else. It's a weird thing that happens when you're an actor because people hold you up because you somehow embody in parts groups of people or people's hopes or something.
You can act truthfully or you can lie. You can reveal things about yourself or you can hide. Therefore, the audience recognizes something about themselves or they don't -- You hope they don't leave the theatre thinking that was nice...now where's the cab?'
I'm a lot less serious than people think, it's probably because the way my face is put together.
Those of you who are not aware of my brilliant career as a stand up comic, I'm not aware of it either so we might well wonder what we're doing here.
Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent.
When I am asked about influences, I always say I bow down to Fred Astaire, because when you look at him dancing you never look at his extremities, do you? You look at his centre. What you never see is the hours of work that went into the routines, you just see the breathtaking spirit and freedom.
Thought-habits can harden into character. So watch your thoughts.
Before you can kill a demon, you have to be able to say it's name. Names have power. While the word Alzheimer's terrorizes us, it has power over us. When we are prepared to discuss it aloud, we might have power over it. It's thought of as a mental illness and it is a physical illness, affecting the brain. There should be no shame in having it, yet people still don't talk about it
The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.
Some people have a mistaken idea that all thoughts disappear through meditation and we enter a state of blankness. There certainly are times of great tranquility when concentration is strong and we have few, if any, thoughts. But other times, we can be flooded with memories, plans or random thinking. It's important not to blame yourself.
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