Quotes About Presence

If we are going to ask for our daily bread, we've got to take the time to receive it and eat it. God provide, but we've got to slow down long enough to taste and see.

Something that I think I figured out slowly was if you're playing a show and there's a chatter or there is, you know, a lot of noise - people talking or something - I was never the one whose instinct was to try to be louder than them.

I'm experiencing all the changes in my body and my mood. But the best feeling is that there is a life making its presence felt within you and this feeling sinks in slowly during the later months of pregnancy.

Sometimes I need people around me to remind me, to keep enjoying the small things.

I preach the gospel of meditation now to anyone who'll listen. It has helped me appreciate the small things. It helps me be present and stay grounded every day.

Though television is a smaller medium than the stage, you can't be afraid to be big.

People just don't understand the art form of what we do. It's a mental and physical grind. You can't be a dolt in this industry. On the opposite end of that, you can be the smartest guy in the world and not understand what it is to have a presence on stage.

I went to L.A. and got an acting coach for one day. Then I went in to audition and I smashed it. You have to take risks, and one thing I know about people: your presence is everything.

And as much as I do believe in paying homage to those who have gone, let's give people their love while they're still here and they can smell those flowers.

When I have dinner, I get off my phone, smell my food, and chew it well.

For fragrance, I only wear Portrait of a Lady by Frederic Malle. People at work know I'm there when they smell it.

If we don't focus on when we eat - like, let's say we watch television or something - you eat much more. If you focus on the food - you smell it, you cook it - you're enjoying it already.

If you walk into the room, and you're smiling and have a pep in your step, people are going to be drawn to you. If you walk into a room and you're sad and you look insecure, it's bad energy.

It's all good being there for people when things are going well and smoothly but what really comes through is how you operate with someone when they need you the most.

When Marvin and I are on a date night, we keep our phones in our bags. If you're out for dinner, enjoy it! I find it bizarre that you would pay for an expensive meal to just Snapchat through all of it.

I do see a lot of my kids, but sometimes I feel as though we have snatched moments. I turn up half way through something, or I only see her at bedtime. I'd like there to be more.

Don't let anything sneak past you. Don't say, 'Well, oh, I'll take a picture and put it in my photograph album.' I notice it now. I love it now. And I am grateful for it now.

The fact that you can even make a record and leave a document that you were here, that's nothing to sneeze at.

I like to watch actors while they are acting, how they hold their attention when so many people around are there to distract them. It's difficult.

We spend so much time sublimatin', thinkin' about, 'What am I going to have for lunch, dinner?'

The fact that I have had so much time to be a dad and to be around my children is brilliant.

As fire's presence in our everyday lives has diminished, the social magnetism of the cook fire seems, if anything, to have only grown more powerful.

DO ALL YOUR EATING AT A TABLE.

I hope whatever you're doing, / you're stopping now and then / and / not doing it at all.")