Quotes About Simplicity

I love Hallmark movies because they make movies that you don't see anymore... and at a time when there is so much evil in the world, it's kind of nice to be able to retreat to something like a Hallmark Movies and Mysteries.

I think people try so hard to learn everything that they miss all the wonderful essentials. There is so much mystery in life that you should leave a mystery.

Making art has never been a mystery to me. It's never been something that's very difficult.

I've never been career-oriented. Did I ever want to be a star? What's a star? Is that something in the heavens? That's the only definition that comes to my mind. And the most important goals in my life have been to move gently, to be at ease with the mystery of what it's all about.

I'm lucky if I get my nails done, period.

I've never had my nails done - look at them!

Sometimes it's good to be naive.

The audiences used to say, 'Are you a Donovan fan or a Dylan fan?' It was all very naive, really.

I want to live my life naked, with all my little naked kids naked in the garden.

Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.

Now, music almost feels naked in my mind.

At the end of the day, we came into the world naked, and that's the way we're going to go.

'Naked' embodies what everyone, at the end of the day, really wants and how they should feel.

People's fates are simplified by their names.

You know how on movie sets there are specific chairs for each person? I hate that. We don't have names on our chairs. We have five chairs. Anyone can sit on them. I think the idea of names on chairs on a set is terrible. It's so dumb. So we got rid of that.

Compared to other people, I am not that narcissistic. Sometimes, I don't even plan all that I wear.

The thing is about 'Vida,' we're telling a very simple family narrative. There's nothing fancy about it.

People always want narratives to be clean and easy.

I feel like people are like, 'Ooh, French beauty, they don't do anything.' But I think it's more about looking as natural as possible.

My mother never wore much make-up, and she was a kind of natural beauty; she knew just how to enhance what she had.

The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.

Acting isn't that hard, really. I mean, I think that people make a big deal about it, but you just kind of try to say your lines naturally.

I don't want a girl who's high-maintenance and wants to go shopping... I like a girl who doesn't wear make-up and is naturally beautiful.

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.