Quotes About Insight

One of the things I've started doing lately is tracking my dreams. I feel like there's a lot of information there and you can really bring those emotions to the situations that may feel mundane or familiar. That gives them new life and gives you a new relationship with it - if that makes any sort of sense.

You're put in certain situations and it kind of opens up those doors and it opens up your eyes to realize what your true calling was.

You see people in different situations behaving in very different ways. That can only benefit you as an actor.

I just do jokes about real situations, pure observation.

I try and imagine myself in situations and figure out how I'd have reacted and responded to them, and then bring that insight into my acting. Much of acting is about borrowing from your real-life experiences.

I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.

People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

I know how to read people. When you grow up in a rough environment, you have to have a sixth sense.

Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow.

The sixth sense is at the core of our experiences. It is what makes experiences out of events.

What I do isn't like 'The Sixth Sense,' I don't see dead people walking around when I'm sitting and looking at an audience of people.

Little Haley Joel Osment in 'The Sixth Sense' can see dead people. Well, I can see racist people.

I don't know, maybe I have a sixth sense or something.

I think I was probably a 60-year-old man in waiting for most of my life. Even as a child I had something of the man in my sixties about me.

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

We'll fund a project even if I'm skeptical because I'd rather be proven wrong by somebody on the inside than by somebody on the outside.

I just feel that if I'm English and writing about an American president, I have got to have someone on my side who can help me out when I'm lapsing into lazy or obvious European skepticism.

Sketch comes from everyday life. You can see someone on the street, and it can turn into a five-minute sketch.

Before I ever begin writing a new story, I have to sketch my characters out on paper. It's part of my process of understanding who they are.

Life experiences help in understanding the character. And many things come to your mind regarding the character sketch when you read the script as many times as possible.

I would describe my comedy as my skewed comic perception of life.

I think paranoia can be instructive in the right doses. Paranoia is a skill.

My biggest skill is common sense. I understand life.

Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn't know you knew. It is a learned skill to force yourself to articulate your life, your present world or your possibilities for the future.