Quotes About Realization

I guess I harboured hopes that things would happen more quickly, but I'm not disappointed.

Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.

When I was growing up, I wanted to be a house painter like my father, but I was always screwing up when I went to work with him. I had a talent for knocking over paint and painting myself into corners. I also realized fairly quickly that painting bored me.

He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.

I was a very quiet child growing up. I always knew that I was funny - I just never put it to use.

I want freedom and I realize that the only way to get it is to quit breaking the law.

It's one thing for other people to see potential in you, and it's quite another for you to understand that and see it in yourself.

I still can't believe I acted in Ram Gopal Varma's direction.

As I ran along, I remember... saying to myself, 'You know, this is really the moon. We're really here... That's the Earth up there.' And I said it two or three times to myself.

I'd met a woman and I got married, but the money ran out right away. I hadn't had a job for seven months, and it just came over me that I was never going to work again. It hit me.

The first time that I saw people actually make the thing that I wrote was my first episode of 'Six Feet Under.' It was called 'Back To The Garden.'

I'm not sure when I first knew that I was gay.

Discovering I'm gay just sort of happened much later in life.

All my life, I never realized you could have a conversation with a ghost.

It's a gift that I have and I became good at it. When I heard my first song I didn't even know that I could write songs.

It took me a long time to understand that there is no amount of wanting and no amount of desire and no amount of hard work which allows you to become a classical ballerina if you're not physically given the gifts.

Our global economy is much more fragile than many of us realize.

If you do a scene the right way, you can go home at the end of the day and really feel like you accomplished something.

I feel we have achieved the goals that we set out to achieve.

Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.

Good ideas are a dime a dozen. It's what you do with them that counts.

It was not so much that a door opened as that I suddenly found that a door had been open all along which I had only just then stumbled upon.

I let myself flop - so gently, so slowly - into my one real chair and tried to make myself understand that I was on the doorstep of the universe.

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.