Joyce DeWitt Quotes

At the end of the day, I want to help my team out as much as possible in any way I can.

There is always a place in the world for those who are willing to give of their time, energy, capital, creativity, and commitment.

I think I am incredibly generous with how much I give to my projects, but that's my generosity with the job.

Anybody doing something brings something to it.

Keep doing what you have to do to help the team out.

Dance should not just divide people into audience and performers. Everyone should be a participant, whether going to classes or attending special events or rehearsals.

May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.

That's one of my jobs, just trying to do what I can to help this team out as much as possible.

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

My inspiration is always love and history, and my passion to a fault is craftsmanship and responsibility. Those are the simplest things. It goes beyond jewelry. It's every part of my life.

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

I wanted to contribute my time, myself, my knowledge, my love, because Haiti is my everything.

I think when you're very dedicated to something and you're engaged fully, you become a giver.

I was raised to be in service to something larger than myself. A lot of actors concentrate on what they will get out of the profession, rather than what they can offer it. The way I see it, if you come with something to offer, you can offer it forever.

I'm trying to communicate here. I'm a communicator, I like to communicate, and if a million people buy it then we've touched a million people, if only 10 people buy it, then we've only touched 10, and that's important, because I'm satisfied with only 10. But, I love a million.

With acting, you are a small part of the creative process, and sometimes it is hard to feel like you are making an impact.

What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?

Service is a deceptively profound way to prove not only what you can do for the world, but what you can tell the world to expect from you and your ambitions.

I got to feel like what I'm giving the fans is 100 percent and that it's game-changing.

I want to thank all the assistants and staff who have worked for us over the years, as well as the people in the community who have added value to our lives.

I think you always want to have a project where it's not about you: where you're serving it. Where it has needs, and you're trying to meet those needs, so you're trying to lift it out of you and put it out there and then say to people, 'Hey, I think that's it; let's head that way.'

Most bands out there are basically pretty boring. I try to affect people inside their bodies.

I take it extremely seriously to do absolutely the best work possible and the truest work possible, because I feel like that is what's going to resonate not only for myself but hopefully for an audience.

It's through engagement with the world, and not separation from it, that something with meaning gets produced.

I have given my life and all I am to it, and now I want my last act to be to give it all I have, to the last cent.