It's a rare moment when we TAKE a break from the tribulations of the daily RATRACE to reflect on assumptions and values that we CASUALLYACCEPT as gospel.
Your ups and downs in sports, I think they are as NORMAL as daily LIFE: One day you wake up and FEEL great, the next day you wake up and feel maybe less great.
'The Lucky One' features a young concentration camp survivor NAMEDPETER Rashkin - who's about the AGE my dad was when he started at CBS - working at the OYSTER Bar, trying to acclimate to his new country and outrun the memories of the daily he LEFT behind.
Do you mortify? Do you MAKE it your daily work? Be always at it whilst you LIVE; cease not a day from this work; be killing SIN or it will be killing you.
To me, art and storytelling SERVE primal, spiritual functions in my daily life. Whether I'm telling a bedtime STORY to my kids or trying to mount a MOVIE or WRITE a SHORT story or a novel, I take it very seriously.
Things can change on a DAILY basis in television. You can be introduced to aspects of your character that you had no IDEA existed because they didn't EXIST a week before. The next week it might be taken away from you in some WAY that you can't control.
SAYING that the Palestinian PEOPLE aren't really a people - that's not a zany thing to say. That's a psychotic thing to say in the MIDST of all of the politics we live through on a daily basis.
I WORK on myself DAILY to be a better person. When I react in a negative WAY to somebody, I sit BACK and think about why I did it, so I'm always WORKING on myself, and my music is the same.
I believe the GIFT of acting is a gift from God, my oath to God, and I want to make sure on a daily basis that it is honed and DEEPLY spiritual... I want to believe that the AUDIENCE believes that my acting comes from this special place.
PRAYER is not ASKING. It is a LONGING of the soul. It is DAILY admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a HEART without words than words without a heart.
In DAILY or everyday LIFE, I am so IMPRESSED with TINYDETAILS, like when I look up at a street lamp falling on the street, it seems to have meaning or so much information in it.