Emile Durkheim Quotes

There was a time when I thought I was doing a good thing with good guys for a good cause. Looking back, I think I really wanted to be a warrior.

I guess I'm an actor - just human behaviour's just fascinating to me. I mean, I'd like to be.

It is the state of mind of the person wielding the instrument that determines to what end it will be put.

If it's a really well written villain, he probably has more layers than the archetypal good person. So that would be very attractive to an actor. No one chooses to be a villain; it's usually a reaction to something else.

Purpose is stronger than object.

If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love.

You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish - not sit intending on a chair.

Being an actor lets me be a million different things.

I understand that life is not black and white, everything has a different hand, lots of them, I act according to the situation.

Having been an actor, I always want to leave room for the actors to find their comfort zone, so I don't like to be too rigid in how I plan my shots. It's different if you have weeks to rehearse and you can rehearse on your sets or in your locations and you can plan that out with your actors, but in modern independent filmmaking, you don't really have that time. You have to have a certain level of improvisation.

It's different being afraid when there's the hope it will amount to something.

Everything that I play as an actress is a different aspect of me.

Each actor requires a different language.

[When you are an actor] it's not a burden to go to work whether it's hard work, whether it's super early work, whatever. So, I go there because I want to be there. I want to do this. That helps a lot.

I wish I could recall with clarity the impulse that compelled me to help bring this camp into being. I'd be pleased if I could announce a motive of lofty purpose. I've been accused of compassion, of altruism, of devotion to Christian, Hebrew, and Muslim ethic, but however desperate I am to claim ownership of a high ideal, I cannot. I wanted, I think, to acknowledge Luck; the chance of it, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others, made especially savage for children because they may not be allowed the good fortune of a lifetime to correct it.

Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might.

You must always know what it is that you want.

Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't.

If you ask me, we could do with a little less motivation. - The people who are causing all the trouble seem highly motivated to me. - Serial killers, stock swindlers, drug dealers, Christian Republicans.

They're so attached to their patterns that they've forgotten rule number one of human behavior: there are no patterns. People just do things. There's no such things as a coherent and fully integrated human personality, let alone consistent motivation.

The way the banks behave is frankly unbearable. I didn't rob for me. I expropriated resources for a struggle. If I had robbed for myself that would be different.

If the helplessness and isolation of labour, who have nothing to sell but their labour, can be totally removed by connecting labour with capital through a universal credit system, we'll then have other kinds of actors on the economic scene different from what the existing capitalist world would allow us to bring out.

Central to being an actor is pretending, and the adventure of it all. That's why you become a junkie for different kinds of situations.

From the time I became an actor my whole approach was to try to do as many different things as possible. It never occurred to me that I might be typecast.

The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.