Quotes About Presence

The next day it's Virginia Woolf who wafts through. Hers is a curiously insistent presence; take your eyes off her for a moment and the next thing you know she's rearranging your syntax as though it were cutlery improperly laid out for a seven-course meal with some foreign dignitary who disdains your nation's table manners.

The least amount of courtesy you should extend to someone is acknowledgement that they exist.

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don`t appreciate the moment until it's passed.

If there is one truth that I have learned, it is that unless you find it inside of Today, you will never find it inside of Tomorrow.

You experience them intimately. Without the intermediary known as thought.

If you think about something as you are looking at it, you will not have truly seen it. Thought stands as a barrier between You and The Experience.

I always do my interviews face to face.

Intimacy comes from being yourself on the stage and making the audience feel, without trying, that you're sittin' down there with 'em, playing, and that can happen in a big hall, if you have a good audience that want to listen.

I always thought that if you don't feel the breath in the actors' bodies, you lose all the intimacy and truth.

I find myself to be the least intimidating person ever.

So you don't have to take us too seriously; I mean, we're already intimidating enough on stage.

I can be intimidating, but not within the confines of a film shoot.

Supermodels can be intimidating.

When we allow distractions to wobble us away from ourselves, that's when our intuition starts to fade and our focus dulls.

I think you don't need to add anything into your life to be more intuitive, it's more a matter of taking away things that are distracting us from being intuitive.

You ask any actor - they'll tell you they'd rather shoot on location because you don't have to invent the energy, the energy is there.

Acting with someone else, I can't tell how good they are because if I'm doing my job right, I'm just fully invested in everything that person's saying.

I'm always looking for things that are so incredibly present that they become invisible.

Meditation is the practice of giving something your full attention and awareness. When I eat a truffle, for example, I focus fully on it and involve as many of my senses as possible.

I don't have an iPhone or anything. There's no TV. It's so easy to become distracted.

We can't have a failure in Iraq, but we also can't be there for the next 10 years because if we are, it's going to become, I think, a failure in and of itself.

I'm just an old Irish guy who believes if you have children, you need to be there to raise them.

When the lights in the arena turn on, I'm Mickie James all the time.

With 'Jessica Jones,' I'm in almost every frame of the show.