Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling.

I just love actors, and I’ve always loved actors. I empathize with their job. Everyone thinks it’s easy, and it ain’t. To be that vulnerable and brave on camera is tough. The more they reveal...

Many people lock a part of themselves away. It’s a bit sacred.

Muslim leaders should ask themselves what exactly their relationship is to a political movement that encourages young men to kill and maim on religious grounds.

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

If I ask my actors to bare themselves, to reveal themselves as almost naked, I have to bare myself, expose myself as well. That’s what creates excitement.

About the gnostic writers themselves and the setting in which they lived we know little, although gnostic Christians were influential enough to be denounced at length.

Actors want to surprise themselves. When it’s really good, you kind of transcend yourself, and that happens infrequently. Very, very rarely.

How any person decides to emphasize strengths and mitigate weaknesses is something people have to figure out for themselves. I’m wary of the self-help literature that suggests there are certain rules. I’m very happy for...

When I get dolled up to go out, men turn their heads and I’m used to it. But I think all women are sexy and should embrace that side of themselves.

I founded Grameen Bank to provide loans to those considered traditionally unbankable. Grameen Bank works with the poorest and often illiterate, providing uncollateralized micro-loans for tiny business enterprises by which they can lift themselves and...

Nobody thinks of themselves as sexy, really. Some days you go, ‘Hey, I’m not going too bad today.’ But if you try and be sexy, you’ll never be sexy.

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag...

Money won’t make you happy… but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

We created a brand for ourselves, so that now people can’t get mad at what we do, because then they’re just making of themselves.

I’m not really interested in the celebrity themselves. I’m interested in the perception of the celebrity.

I’m not invited to the Vanity Fair dinner where they watch the Oscars – or even the Oscars themselves – so I sit at home and watch it with a bunch of close friends.

Nobody really cares about what other people think anymore; they’re all about themselves.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

Most writers flinch at the thought of being completely honest about themselves. So absolute honesty is what marks the true modern.

Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

If you had an alien race that looked like insects, then they would build robots to look like themselves, not to look like people.

If people can find something that they love about themselves after going to one of my shows, then I am so addicted to that feeling. It’s the most gratifying thing on earth.

Science is based on the possibility of objectivity, on the possibility of different people checking out for themselves the observations made by others. Without that possibility, there is no empirical principle capable of deciding between...

Americans need to educate themselves, from elementary school onward, about what their country has done abroad. And they need to play a more active role in ensuring that what the United States does abroad is...

Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We’re kicking butt and taking no prisoners.

Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for actions which they can no longer hide from the world with ease, and...

Anybody who is a fan of any team is going to recognize themselves in this.

Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient...

I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It’s an incredibly nourishing process; it’s probably the closest I come to having a religion.

When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.

The third person allows characters to really attack themselves. We all do this – attack ourselves – every hour of our lives.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

Women are hard on themselves.

My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the company that he would carry to work. It’s a big iron pipe with a hunk of lead on...

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

Though there might not be any easy answers to the problem of poverty, its most compelling scribes do not resign themselves to representation solely for the sake of those age-old verities of truth and beauty.

Women who have strong identities, who know themselves, really inspire me.

I’ve been telling anyone willing to listen that banks have a tendency to sit on time bombs while convincing themselves that they are conservative and nonvolatile.

Confident people have a way of carrying themselves that makes others more attracted to them.

I have so many questions about love. How do you win at it? Especially if you’re in a relationship with an impossible person? What if you believe in someone who’s completely untrustworthy, who at their...

You don’t leave people who can’t defend themselves.

Everyone needs some time to themselves.

Autism doesn’t have to define a person. Artists with autism are like anyone else: They define themselves through hard work and individuality.

Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful,...

I was frustrated for a long time with my colleagues in the business school world and with so many management authors who didn’t really see themselves as innovators. They were glorified journalists.

Markets themselves are looking for stability, and I think we have underestimated the capacity of Europe… to actually create a more stable framework for the whole issue of debt management, bonds, and so on.

No one ever really ‘learns’ from history, because choices never present themselves in exactly the same way, and because you can always choose similarities and differences to fit current needs.