Quotes About Insight

In every training session, I learn.

I'm not sure you learn anything on film sets.

What I always want is to have several little 'aha' moments where your brain is very happy.

Experience. I have that in abundance and that is what I can share.

I'm always interested in, I would say, not only sharing my wisdom, but acquiring other people's wisdom as well.

Meditation helps sharpen the mind.

That's what as an artist you always try to do. To try to be a sharper mind than the average person.

I love history, and I thought I knew history well, but I was shocked by how little I knew about it.

As a writer, it is always fun to imagine yourself in someone else's shoes.

I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes.

I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.

For most of your career, what you're trying to do is to step into other people's shoes.

I don't shop as much as I find.

I think personally that every actress should do a little film. Even a short film. And all directors should act, to know how difficult it is also the other way around.

You know, I once read a short story about how much you could tell about people from their shoes. You could tell where they had been, what they did, whether they were real walkers.

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

You can tell a lot in shorthand.

I've worked with some of the great cinematographers. So I'm always watching what they do and I'm watching how the director composes his shots, just because I find it interesting as an actor; you're trying to help them out as well.

Having grown up watching my father direct films and having worked with him and my brother, I know how films are made, how shots are taken.

Trying to show people something they haven't really seen before can get a lot of push-back.

I'm addicted to showing people what they don't get to see, as far as the everyday lifestyle of an NBA player.

Books have shown me horror and beauty.

'Mr. Robot' has made me so much more aware of everything. I have to think about it.

I'm not sure how aware of the rest of the world I am. I live a rather sheltered existence.