Quotes About Insight

I'm really interested in the extraordinary found in the normal. Hopefully, my books don't take you to an entirely different place but make you look at things around you.

It's always a learning process, every time you work with someone. You take a bit of what their history is and hopefully you give a little back.

You write a thing down because you're hoping to get a hold on it.

I always love the court fool in Shakespearean times, in Henry VIII's time. The fool can say all kinds of stuff that the other people can't say, so I'm hoping I might take that role.

Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current.

I've seen a lot of horror, but I'm not a horror guy.

What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along.

If we all had crystal balls, we'd all know which horse to back, wouldn't we?

I can gauge how a horse is feeling.

A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.

It's hard making people sitting in hotel rooms interesting.

I grew up in a household where my mom made $16,000 a year. I know the struggle. I know how to keep those things in perspective, and I do keep it into perspective.

I'm continually amazed by how many people who appear to be extroverts are actually introverts.

It's amazing how much you can absorb on a film set.

I hear people all the time say, well I read through the Bible last year. Well, so what? I'm all for reading through the Bible. But how much of that got on the inside, or did they just cover three more chapters today? I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it.

I'm guilty of it myself, sort of thinking, 'Classic novels: snoozeville.' But there is a huge amount of wonderful material.

I used to be a huge fan of 'Lockup' on MSNBC, and that certainly has helped with my understanding of the world.

It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.

For anyone with half a brain they can see that this play is about the human condition.

I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition.

I'm a sensitive guy; I respond to things that make my eyes well up a little bit, or make me root for people. I find the human condition interesting.

You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.

To grapple with and understand anxiety is, in some sense, to grapple with and understand the human condition.

I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition.