Quotes About Clarity

Americans are less selfish than some of our politicians believe and will respond with reason and resilience to passionate clarity.

Drugs shut you down, cut you off emotionally. You think being off your head makes life easier, but it's a lot easier when you're not.

My mantra is: put your brain into gear and if you can add to what's on the screen then do it, otherwise shut up.

I'm shy, but sometimes my voice is so clear and strong.

My audience expects cold, hard truth. They don't expect me to dance around it. They expect me to say it the way they think it. That's part of my brand. If I don't do that, then my audience goes, 'What's up? Is he sick or something? What's wrong with him?' The entity has a brand.

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.

I really didn't know there was two sides to the abortion issue.

I don't feel real confident expressing myself except when I'm writing. I feel kind of scatterbrained. I can see everything from both sides and that makes it hard to reach conclusions. Writing enables me to clarify things.

The point never to lose sight of is to be guided by the correct thing, as you see it. It's the only way to approach such profound matters and retain your integrity.

I was Donnie Brasco, the Mafia guy, in character. But in my head, I was a special agent. I never lost sight of who I was or why I was there.

Even when you're not acting, don't lose sight of your goals or who you are.

Don't be one foot in and one foot out, especially coming up in New York. It's so easy to lose sight of what you want to do and who you want to be.

Sometimes one misses the sign posts as you're going down the road. They aren't as obvious as they become when you get to the end of the road, so to speak.

I think probably - I think, you know, when you're first dating somebody, if they're just not that physical with you, if they don't want to make concrete plans with you, you know, if they're sort of ambiguous about where everything is going, I think that's a pretty good sign that they're not into you.

Fluency can be a sign that nothing is happening; fluency can actually be my signal to stop, while being in the dark from sentence to sentence is what convinces me to go on.

I read every agreement of every contract. Anything I put my signature on, I really do read them. And I find things.

I've signed on for four movies, and I'll do four. That's easy. No complications there.

Make sure you know what you are signing when you sign a recording contract.

I was never close to signing for Manchester United, no.

Some people cannot understand why I insist on knowing about my role in a film before signing it.

People tell you who they are. There are big neon signs going off. 'Pay attention! This is who I am.' And most of us put out hands a little bit over our eyes. We don't see that.

Silence is so accurate.

Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted.

Sometimes silence is the best way to shut down an awkward conversation.