Paul Dano Quotes

When characters change on screen, it makes you feel better about yourself. You think, 'Oh I change too, I'm constantly becoming a better person.'

I think of myself as a catalyst of action and a messenger of hope, turning people onto themselves and turning people onto their dreams.

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration.

I would say I'm an inspirational guidelines book. You can take my life story or scenarios or songs and relate to them and apply them to your everyday life.

The OWN network is all about inspiring and enlightening.

When you meet someone you love, whether or not they love you back, something occurs in you that makes you want to improve yourself.

I try to sprinkle a little gems and jewels in the music that people could use in their own life.

Regardless of where the offer comes from, I'll choose characters that are inspiring and challenging.

I don't know where I'd be without 'The Chase', it changed my life.

I'm on this journey to inspire people and to encourage them.

I haven't gotten a lot of feedback about, 'Oh, you helped me in this way.' But on social media, people are like, 'Thank you for your positive posts,' or 'It's fun to see you grow and your character. I feel like I'm growing with you.'

If, through my own personal journey, I can inspire someone else to self-love, that would be the biggest accomplishment.

My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do.

'Man In The Mirror' by Michael Jackson - I used to have my very first dance parties with my kids to this song when they were little, even carried them around to it. It just makes you want to be a better person and be inspired.

A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential; a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself.

I always get inspiration from whatever characters say about my character.

I don't want to be someone's reason to hate their life. I want to be someone's reason to seek something more in their life.

I want to inspire, and be inspired.

What's interesting is with a lot of the work I do through my foundation, the 'Manifest Your Destiny' foundation, we really encourage people, and we attempt to empower, uplift and inspire people to live out their dreams, live out their destiny.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

I feel like I've come out of this grown up, maybe because I live through the character vicariously and she grows up so much during the course of this story.

I want to do stories that inspire people.

I try to get people thinking, to consider their pasts and presents, ultimately encouraging them and giving them the tools to embrace the work of reshaping their lives.

But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them.