Quotes About Reflection

I love my stuff - you're not supposed to say that. But because I'm performer as well as a writer, I'm constantly interacting with my own work. I always get to find these little secrets that I left for myself, little notes - I find them all over the scores.

I'm the only person in wrestling that realizes I'm too old to do this anymore, and that's why I'm not a performer and I'm not going to be on 'ROH.'

But I like the process of putting a show together and the impact that Edinburgh has on me as a performer.

The most evocative thing to me is probably when a writer and a group of performers can collectively put together something compelling that asks the really simple question: 'How do we live?'

As an actress, I think it's important to look back and realize that we aren't always quite as original as we think we are. There's this grand, textured history for us over the last 100 years of incredible writers, directors, and performers.

It's hard for performers to grow old gracefully, but I'm trying.

I'm not very good at being a performing monkey.

I'm not performing now. What I do now is listen to music all day long. Listening is very nourishing to me. I might go back to perform, I might make another record. I've got a record half finished.

Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.

Performing for the Dalai Lama - those are words I never imagined coming out of my mouth.

Maybe I just wasn't a show-biz type. I didn't miss performing at all.

I can interpret my own work honestly. And performing by myself seems to focus the attention in the right places.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

I think there are perhaps two ways in which one can begin.

All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.

'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.

Perhaps the most satisfying thing occurred when Michael Jordan became a team owner and said to me, 'I owe you a lot of apologies. It's a lot harder to run a team than I thought.'

Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Every dish is very connected to my own experiences. Perhaps I go deeper in the description and feeling in the dish than a male chef would. But it's difficult to say.

The gold iridescent 'Naked' outfit is perhaps not my finest moment.

I've never returned to the locations. I do remember certain days more clearly than others and certain locations with a sense of nostalgia. Perhaps one day, I'll bring my daughter to see them, if she's interested.

Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.

I hear a lot of artists become kinda self-referential, and a lot of people that tour a lot tend to write about the perils of being on the road later in their careers.