Quotes About Reflection

I think when you're 17 and you're angry, you're angry about very short-term things. And there's nothing wrong about writing that record. It's a very real record to write; it's the realest record I could write when I was 17. The problem is, when you're 28, it's not the same thing; it can be a put-on.

I have many shortcomings. I feel very lucky to have been able to have what I've had.

Sometimes we can't see our own selves, our own shortcomings, but it's so easy to see somebody else's.

We all have shortcomings.

One does make mistakes and the best thing for any individual is to learn from those shortcomings.

I don't want to be that person who's looking squarely at the shortcomings in the process right where I sit and then choose to walk away and do nothing.

I have a lot of shortcomings. I'm aware of that. I work on those things.

Every shot that kills ricochets.

I don't remember scenes. I'm like, 'Really, we shot that?'

I wasn't angry the night I shot him.

The luxury of television is that you get more than one shot at who you think the guy is that you're playing.

I am always being told off for using bad language but it's sort of lovely really, because it makes me think of my lovely dad who was constantly shouting at me for bad language.

I don't read about myself, and I don't read any magazine that has anything to do with movies or show business.

Other people sing in the shower, but I don't.

I don't sing in the shower.

This is really showing me what certain movies mean to people.

I never gave much thought to anything since I was 22 years old, when I got into the arts, so when Larry David came to my house in 2000, I didn't even think about it - I just thought about showing up on the set.

A theatre is the most important sort of house in the world because that's where people are shown what they could be if they wanted and what they'd like to be if they dared to and what they really are.

What you think about when you don't have to think, shows what you really are.

Don't run after shows and money.

I write instead of going to the shrink!

I've been lucky enough to travel the world and win awards and medals, but it was time to stop.

I don't like to look back. I love the next challenge and don't keep awards. There are a few that are really important, but my parents have most of them.

I've been in the business for so long that I don't sit home and look at my awards.