Quotes About Realization

It's not what you think that counts, it's what you do.

It is characteristic of insight solutions and new ideas that they should be obvious after they have been found.

Whatever he thought he was, it was painfully clear he was not.

It never occurred to me to be an actor.

When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.

It never occurred to me that I'd have a dance company.

Sybil's my wife, and on the first day of October, that's the first time I knew Ross was going to run.

I just realized I wanted to do more than ballet. I was offered an apprenticeship, so I was about to join a company and drop out of high school, and then it hit me: I didn't want that anymore.

Oftentimes, I'll be looking through my closet and I realize I'll have something that was new or something I didn't realize I had.

Heroes aren't born, they' re cornered. Oh, I was cornered. And I found out that I was no hero.

I've been really lucky. I'll completely forget that I'm a celebrity. And then something will happen, and I'll go, 'Oh, right.'

To me, my favorite joke on a stand-up special is when someone says something and you go, 'Oh my God, I've been thinking that my whole life, I've just never said it to anyone else.' Those little kinda quiet, personal observations you make that nobody else has talked about yet.

There were certain films where I went, 'Oh, my God, I'm doing a movie.'

At the age of 31, I realized, 'Oh my God, I may die like everyone else.'

I sometimes don't try to invent something. I wait for some kind of a direction - and it happens. I get an angle, for instance, and it just appears, and I say, 'Oh my God - that's it!'

I go down the street thinking, 'Oh my God, I live in New York.' But then I think, 'Oh my God, I'm on Broadway!'

I always have moments on set where I think, 'Oh my God, this is my life right now.' And it could've been so different.

I turned 65 and thought, 'Oh my God, I'm a senior. How did this happen?'

I think it just seems like something that somebody else does, like they raise actors somewhere in Ohio, and once in a while, people go and pick their actors and move to Hollywood. It seemed like such a distant idea. But then, as I started growing up, I'm like, 'Oh, this is an occupation.'

There was a point when I was 15 or 16 that I realized that my father wanted me to be a loner. I decided, 'It's okay to be an introvert, but I don't want to be a loner. I want a few other people in my life.'

I didn't realize Oklahoma had so many fine women.

I remember hearing, back in the day, so-and-so got a deal, and bands are spending the money. Some of them live in the old days, where money is coming in and budgets are endless, but bands have to pay that back. Some bands just don't realize that.

What I always say is that young people need older people to develop their game, grow as people, and understand what Real means.

You have to stop yourself midway through a scene and be like, 'I'm acting with Olivia Colman!'