Tony Hale Quotes

That's the very definition of freedom: to be allowed to develop our own creative potential to the fullest. But it doesn't have to be in the arts, obviously. In my case, I gravitated toward the arts.

One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!

With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.

I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am.

I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

My personal life is also cinema.

I have never done films to prove a point to anyone; I have done them for myself.

Like any art, the creation of self is both natural and seemingly impossible. It requires training as well as magic.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

I like this idea of becoming fully realised.

Through my films I'm eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don't know if I'm ever going to get there, but I'm slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I'm 85, I'll look back and say, 'All right, that about sums it up.'

A person has the right, and I think the responsibility, to develop all of their talents.

I just do what feels right. I think the great thing about getting to do what I do is that you can try out being a different person without having to screw up your life to do it.

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself.

He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.

My ambition is to do what I like and to do good things that I might not have done before.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.

I try to find different ways of expressing myself. Without that I will die.

Acting should be an end in itself.

I just try to live my life and do my thing.