MO Quotes

I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.

There's no blueprint for where I should be. I see myself as a young, good actor who still has a lot to learn. There's nobody at any point in their career who is the finished article.

But I've got more to learn, too. I don't feel like I'm done or I know it all.

I look back at my twenties and see that I was much less confident.

I don't want to sound self-righteous, and I don't want to act like I have it all put together.

My freshman year, I was such an immature kid and I didn't know what to expect, I didn't know what I wanted or what I could do or what my abilities were off the court.

I don't think I've mastered anything. I'm still wrestling with the same frustrations, the same issues, the same problems as I always did. That's what life is like.

I get a little scared of words like maturity.

We do not want to be beginners. But let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything else but beginners, all our life!

I'll never know - I'll never profess to know - anything anywhere near it all. It'sall a journey - life, work, and relationships. Mistakes and learning, and learning not to make your mistakes again.

You are different from the really great man in only one thing: The great man, at one time, also was a very little man, but he developed one important ability: he learned to see where he was small in his thinking, and actions. Under the pressure of some task which was dear to him he learned better and better to sense the threat that comes from his smallness and pettiness. The great man, then, knows when and in what he is a little man.

Quien sabe? Not me. The older I get the less I sabe, the less wisdom, maturity and caution I have.

Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe.

I never felt I knew it all. I always felt there's something new to learn, something new to do.

I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.

Earlier in my career, I was really tight, really together, and knew who I was and I was confident. I kind of feel in between now.

Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.

Confidence was never in short supply in my case. If anything, I think I overshot the mark with confidence way too early in my career, and gradually, it's about just getting more humble and wanting to sit down more.

It's not like I have all the answers.

I think it's my personality to overcome things, learn from them and become stronger, both personally and professionally.

Every time I'd get a critique or some redirection, I'd always just take it very personally. Now I have no problem with it.

Seriously I suspected I was a good actor, though I didn't know it during 'Monsoon Wedding.' Now I realize the more I learn, the less I know about acting... and life.

Well, I'm certainly glad that I was nominated for an Oscar. There is certainly a respect that comes with that nod. Also, a compliment that comes with it, too. Not that I really know what I'm doing. In a lot of ways I feel like some child on set, or like a kid that snuck in the back door.

I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.

I'm not good at watching myself.