James Wolk Quotes

You work for it. You don't have to massage it, so that it fits into the way it has to be. He's just too vigorous a writer and the dialogue is too sparking to do anything other than inhabit it and give it as much truth as you can. You just try to make it part of your DNA. That's what the challenge is, really.

Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don't live angry, let go now!

I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person.

I don't have anything to get off my chest. I'm not itching to prove myself anymore.

I know when an actor is giving it his/her all and when they're just phoning it in.

Stop waiting. Feel everything. Love achingly. Give impeccably. Let go.

You don't have to give up to let go

Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.

What do I want to let go of and what do I want to give myself to?

I knew it was going to be important that if I had an audience understand who she was, then all those things had to come from a place that was grounded, as opposed to being tics and manners and twitches. I didn't think it was going to be as rich, perhaps, as if I was going to make it more emotional.

Forgiveness is a gift you give to yourself

You have to forgive everybody. It's the best beauty treatment.

I like to think in camera, but at the last minute the most important thing is that there is something happening between the actors. But good actors can have a lot of scenes going around them but sometimes it sort of helps the performance because it takes their mind off of who they are supposed to be.

Forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves that allows us to get on with our lives instead of being trapped in the past by resentment.

Though I can't change what happened, I can choose how to react. And I don't want to spend the rest of my life being bitter and locked up.

For a short time, I hated them. But when you think about it, what good does that do?It takes so much to hold on to hate—you lose your grip on what's important, you know?

Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. You're done. It doesn't necessarily mean that you want to have lunch with the person. If you keep hitting back, you stay trapped in the nightmare.

When you haven't forgiven those who've hurt you, you turn back against your future. When you do forgive, you start walking forward.

And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form of liberation.

Sincerity is the most important thing in acting. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.

I have found it very important...to let go of my wishes and start hoping.

How can [actors] learn their lines and be honest in front of 30 people and all the lights? It makes me cry sometimes. I can't understand how they can be joking with me 30 seconds before, and 40 seconds later they're giving me all this incredible feeling.

Attachment is the root cause of all misery - and our mind is such that it starts clinging to each and everything. It starts becoming identified, attached, it does not know how to keep a distance; hence the misery.

My heart forgives and releases. Inner peace is my goal.

Strength of character is already written. What we bring, as an actor, is an almost 3D-ness to it.