Quotes About Insight

Sometimes you become friends with the characters you portray.

I love stories. But I don't distinguish so much between a short story and a novel. Personally, when I sit down to read a novel or a Chekhov story, I'm seeking the same thing: I'm seeking that same rich portrayal of life in words.

I've given every maid I've portrayed soul and heart.

Young people deserve to be portrayed with depth.

In fact, the sense of positioning, anticipation, is something very natural. I always knew where the ball was going to drop.

I played many positions under Guardiola. That helps to see the game from a different perspective, you learn more.

I always try to think of positive things to say about the people I portray, as it's more helpful for me.

I can honestly tell you, I can look at the things I did in high school, and I can see how they positively affect me today.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it.

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

But some actors I have met possess an intelligence that I can only dream of. It's about character, it's about behavior. They understand things about people that I simply don't see.

Humans are possessed, to some degree, with the power of foresight. Yet we so often learn things the hard way, through disaster.

I just love the fact that a man possesses something that a woman can never understand because we don't have the experiences of it and that a woman possesses something that the man doesn't understand because only she possesses it.

Every intelligent person, whether he's an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world.

I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world.

Rod Carew told me once that for those that know you, no explanation is necessary, and for those that don't know you, none is possible. That's the philosophy I live by.

Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, 'But how can it be like that?' because you will get 'down the drain,' into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.

You want to learn everything that you possibly can, chew it, digest it, and take it for what it is, and then move on.

What could I have possibly learned except the really most important thing, which is that I did not want to work at the 'New York Times'? Beyond that, I learned how a newspaper works.

I try as much I can after every live performance to read all the comments my fans post on Facebook and Twitter, as this helps enormously for me to understand straight from fans what worked and what didn't.

I've learnt that the muse is like an angry girlfriend. If she comes knocking you better be home because if you're not, she doesn't leave a note saying pick up after 3 P. M. from the post office. The gift she had is gone forever.

I just always thought 'Groundhog Day' was potentially a great idea.

Sometimes when you're writing a song, it's work, and you really have to make sure you're kind of pounding out every little piece of it. And then sometimes you write a song, and you turn around and you go, 'How did we do that?'