Margaret Atwood Quotes

Let him be wise, or let me be blind; don't let me, she hoped concretely, don't let me know too surely what he thinks of me.

I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears.

Actors have an innate sense of self and humanity, the good ones do, and of being generous of heart and generous of spirit.

After this whole acting thing is over and done, you eventually have to be human. Some people are never human. It's very weird.

I think as an actor you have to be open to your emotions - that's how you tap into other characters. Besides, by being so open I've come to terms with how screwed I am!

The main thing in acting is honesty, to feel the humanity and get to the essence of the character. You can't put anything into a character that you haven't got within you.

I can't claim I'm truly a man's man, I'm just as much of a dork and a crybaby sometimes as anybody else.

Anybody can act. Correction. Anybody can act if they know their own weaknesses.

People who are comfortable in their own skin I admire, but you don't know what's really going on. If you meet someone who says they nail being a human, they are as far away from nailing it as a human as you can possibly imagine.

To be okay with not knowing is a sign of a mature person and a mature society.

I think there's a little bit of idiot in everybody and I think some people cover it better than others but I think I am very much a guy who wears his heart on his sleeve.

A lie may fool someone else, but it tells you the truth: you're weak.

I think it would do a lot of people good just to realize how vulnerable they are.

As intellectual as we think we are, you still trip, we still have human foibles, sexuality, all the different things to still make you aware of your humanity.

I tell myself that I know you, and then when I think about it, I realize that I don't.

Love thy neighbor as thyself because you are your neighbor. It is illusion that makes you think that your neighbor is someone other than yourself.

You think you're winning, but it's hard to say sometimes.

You emerge from tragedy equipped against lies. After the musical, you're anybody's fool

Not to discover weakness is The Artifice of strength.

We spend our lives guessing at what's going on inside everybody else, and when we happen to get lucky and guess right, we think we 'understand.' Such nonsense. Even a monkey at a computer will type a word now and then.

Do you think I should stay away from him?" I asked in a scratchy voice. Todd took a long time to answer. "My advice is, if you're inclined in that direction, go with your eyes open. It's okay to let someone play you, Haven, as long as you know what's going on.

You easily close yourself off to certain things because you want to seem like you know it all, or you're not weak - emotion is often confused as weakness - so when emotions are undeniably physically affecting you, I think it's a gift.

My life is a movie set. These people, they all think this is real, but it's not.

Reality has changed chameleonlike before my eyes so many times that I have learned, or am learning, to trust almost anything except what appears to be so.

Yes and no are soon said, but give much to think over.