Kind Quotes - Page 217

I do not want my new works to be generated in a market or audience of any kind.

What kind of recognition do I deserve? I don't deserve any recognition.

It was like a dream to me to suddenly get into the market with that kind of movie, like La Haine. It actually created my identity as an actor, that thing.

I don't like dates. If you meet someone that you like then meet them out somewhere. That's good because that's comfortable. I don't like the feeling of going to pick someone up that I don't know that well at their house and then take them to kind of a formal restaurant.

You don't feel honest on a date, I guess. You don't really get to learn about anyone. You're kind of being polite and you can ask the questions, it's just not a great time for me.

You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.

I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check - it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in.

I think pure light has something to do with actually seeing everything at once. It's kind of a nirvana of sorts.

You don't think of yourself as your external representation, or even your national origin or anything like that. You don't reduce yourself to that. That's kind of unthinkable.

I've put live performance in a lot of spaces. Part of what I want to do is take over the takeover. Another way that someone put it is, you climb over the fence and you cut a hole in it, and let everyone else in. That's kind of what this is. The museum is a repository of great works, but there is certain work that no one ever calls great. This is an insistence on directing their attention to other stuff that's great, that never gets to be in a museum.

Most actors can't make any kind of living.

I'm a total bottoms-up kind of person. I like things to bubble up.

I kind of put myself in this mindset where time doesn't really exist that much. There is no past or future. I just try to stay really in the present.

Even with or without the show I'm always thinking of the next thing. If it's meant to be, it's meant to be. That's kind of been the story of my career.

If you look at the rest of my stuff, I always play characters that kind of don't look like me, 'cause I love transforming into someone else. I love being able to act, work and act, and then doing it under the radar.

We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.

The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness.

My songs are very much a kind of psychoanalysis. I am very introspective in my songs, and I am working through, always.

I'm kind of like a dumb model.

I don't believe in your "Good". I believe in human kindness.

Women do date better than men. They'll get prepared. Men just kind of show-up.

I used the music kind of as therapy, and it's just amazing that I feel so free after doing that. I feel like I had it trapped inside of me and now I feel free. So it's been a very good therapy session for me as well.

Being well-mannered and gracious and kind are things that I value really highly.

The whole trip that happened in the late 60s and 70s was kind of a throwback to a lot of folk styles. I got into it as well 'cause I started with the folk styles.

There's novel reading, and then there's the other kind of reading. Take somebody like Carl Jung, the psychiatrist - now there's somebody worth getting into. With novels, I'm kind of fly by night. It isn't something I can be really consistent with.