I've always considered myself an actor first and foremost.
Stanley TucciRead
If you find that thing you love, it doesn't necessarily matter whether you do it well or not-you just need to do it.
Interpretation
Pursuing what you love is more important than excelling at it.
This quote emphasizes the value of engaging in activities that we are passionate about, regardless of our level of skill or perfection. It suggests that the joy and fulfillment in life come from doing what we love, rather than being preoccupied with success or proficiency.
In practice
During a motivational speech about following your dreams.
I've always considered myself an actor first and foremost.
My late wife - she died of cancer. We tried everything we could do to save her. I wish that I could have done more and that I could have been with her at the moment she passed away. I couldn't be in that room because I knew it would be so devastating that I wouldn't be able to take care of the kids after.
As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over.
Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject.
A dream that you don't fight for can haunt you for the rest of your life.
Goodbye, Hari, my love. Remember always--all you did for me.β -I did nothing for you.β -You loved me and your love made me--human.
Love is the infinite which is given to the finite.
I don't hate you, I love you, you're part of myself, you're my heart and when you go it's my heart torn out and carried away--
But what we're really trapped by is perceptions. You think you need to lose weight for someone to love you. I think if I gain weight, no one will love me. What we really need is to just stop thinking of ourselves as bodies and start thinking of ourselves as people.
I'm awaiting a lover. I have to be rent and pulled apart and live according to the demons and the imagination in me. I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
Sometimes I imagined stitching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love? Why does anyone ever make love?
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