There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.
You have to examine a scene on the page first. Then you get into the basics of acting: Who are you? Who are you talking to? How do you feel about that person?
What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.
At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.
I'm a person who takes baths in the dark, alone.
I'm not a proponent of staying together and being miserable and damaged and coming through actually a more battered person.
Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands. So yes, I'm definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times.
I was very immature - who isn't at age 12? Let's be real. Once I kind of figured myself out and grew as a person, I now have a ton of different friends and learned who I was.
You just can't beat the person who never gives up.
No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.
I started playing instruments before I started making beats, and I was never the best guitarist or the best pianist or the best drummer. And when I started making beats, I was not the best beatmaker, and when I started making hooks, I was not the best vocal melody person. When I first started rapping, I wasn't the best rapper at all.
I'm not a beautiful person and I never have been.
I prefer to say that I am a beautiful person. But the addict is a horrible person.
If you're not a beautiful person, you can't do anything about it.
Malcolm X raised my consciousness about myself and my people and other people more than any person I know. I knew him before he became Malcolm X.
When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you're making a commitment and difference in that person's life. Encouragement really does make a difference.
How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?
All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.
The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ.