Acting is divine dissatisfaction. It’s the greatest thing in the world to do, but you are never satisfied with it ever.
I never thought I was finished when people said I was finished, or any of that stuff. I always had this undying belief that even if I was in a wheelchair and I could only move my finger, somehow I would become the guy who does the amazing thing with his finger.
What I do as an art form is try to make people feel good and if I do try to make them feel bad, it’s for a reason. There’s something I am trying to say.
I wish everyone could experience being rich and famous, so they’d see it wasn’t the answer to anything.
Our eyes are not viewers, they’re also projectors that are running a second story over the picture that we see in front of us all the time. Fear is writing that script, and the working title is ‘I’ll never be enough’
I come from the philosophy of: “Whatever happens to me is the greatest thing that could happen, no matter what.” Sometimes in the moment I have a regret, but then I have found myself every time down the line saying to myself: “I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for that so called failure.”
A better you means a better universe.
Psychologically, it’s what I love to be. Tearing apart a person from the inside out.
I’m the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it’s still about the work.
I think obsessions happen because you’re trying to understand something or some urge.
Hope walks through the fire and faith leaps over it.
Fear is going to be a player in your life, but you get to decide how much. You can spend your whole life imagining ghosts, worrying about the pathway to the future, but all it will ever be is what’s happening here, the decisions in that we make in this moment, which are based in either love or fear.
I don’t make it in regular channels, and that’s okay for me.
People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.
50 years: here’s a time when you have to separate yourself from what other people expect of you, and do what you love. Because if you find yourself 50 years old and you aren’t doing what you love, then what’s the point?
My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian.
Compassion is the currency that leads to true wealth.
You know the trouble with real life? There’s no danger music.
So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality. What we really want seems impossibly out of reach and ridiculous to expect, so we never dare to ask the universe for it.
You are ready and able to do beautiful things in this world.