Quotes for All
I can’t quite say that I was raised Muslim, but I remember up until 5 or so I would pray, you know, with my dad. And it’s actually a beautiful practice. It’s giving of yourself to a higher power – no matter what you call that higher power. Living your life as close to what … Read more
I love the contrast of this side of [Dolores from the Westworlds] coming out, this tough fighter coming through this sort of Disney princess. There’s something really powerful about that. But I was really excited to get some pants. Evan Rachel Wood
I’ve done interviews in one day that went on for fifteen, sixteen hours. And at a certain point, the control over what they’re saying breaks down; it becomes different. It becomes really powerful, and for me, real. It becomes out of control. Errol Morris
No matter what character your play. I feel like whenever anyone is honest and whole and well-written, you’re going to be able to connect to that person because we’re all kinda made up of the same stuff and I think that’s always one of the really powerful things about approaching each individual character and role … Read more
One of my favorite literary theorists, Mikhail Bakhtin, wrote that the defining characteristic of the novel is its unprecedented level of \”heteroglossia\” – the way it brings together so many different registers of language. He doesn’t mean national languages, but rather the sublanguages we all navigate between every day: high language, low language, everything. I … Read more
Meditation is a really powerful tool I have for life now. The only reason I know about it is because I was stressing about writing and a friend taught me it. It’s been useful. Now I use it for a bunch of different situations, whether I’m stressing before a show or something in the day … Read more
When I was growing up, I really liked punk rock. I liked the sort of people that played really powerful music that was pretty unassuming otherwise – people who didn’t dress weird or do much theatrics. Doug Martsch
You have to go really dark and deep with yourself and get your hands dirty and go into territories that you don’t want to go into and feel things that you don’t want to feel, but that’s what ultimately pushes out the good and gives you some kind of a message that you can take … Read more
I like dark, dramatic roles; they’re just really powerful and real. Daveigh Chase
Nonfiction narratives are really powerful and valid in themselves. But one thing that you don’t get sometimes from the more clinical or academic books or nonfiction books is that you don’t get to hear the person’s voice; you don’t get them as individuals. You get a few quotes and you hear them as sort of … Read more