total immersion Quotes

I think being Jewish has been covered really well but almost nothing about being fundamentalist Protestant. For years, I've had a movie in my mind called 'Total Immersion' that looks to my life as a kid where you're immersed in this different worldview from almost everybody around you.

It is the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoy it completely.

Lose yourself in the music, the moment - you own it.

With radio, the listener absorbs everything.

The whole business of love is to drown in the sea.

The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country.

One of the best things Henry Miller ever said was that art goes all out. It's all out. It goes full length. . . . A big book is an all-out book in which you limit your life to things that pertain directly to the book.

I dedicated all the time I had to it. The 10 hour workout was just what I put in the magazine at the time, but for me it was every waking moment.

You're competing against people in a state of flow, people who are truly committed, people who care deeply about the outcome. You can't merely wing it and expect to keep up with them. Setting aside all the safety valves and pleasant distractions is the first way to send yourself the message that you're playing for keeps

I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgetteth himself, and all things are in him: thus all things become his down-going.

When you paint, you forget everything except your object. When you are too much engrossed in it, you are lost in it. And when you are lost in it, your ego diminishes. And when the ego diminishes, love infinite appears.

I'm kind of ADD in that sense where if I start liking something, I'll just learn it to the absolute max.

To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I've tried it 85 times, and I've succeeded two or three times.

The best complement I ever got from the public or producers or directors is that I just totally blend in and become the character and they don't notice me and that the play happens or the movie happens or the TV show happens.

Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.

A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.

You have to be willing to totally immerse yourself in China in order to have in-depth exposure to China.

I would like to tell all dancers to forget themselves and the desire for self display. They must become completely absorbed in the dance. Even in a classical variation there should never be any thought of a dancer doing a variation--he should become identified with it.

Those that only take a nibble here and a nibble there will never attain anything ... Those who really want to be yogis must give up, once and for all, this nibbling at things. Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea.

I'm the kind of person who has to totally commit to whatever I do.

On Heartbreaker, I had to sing those songs. I drank the way I did those songs. I ate the way I did those songs. I communicated the way I did those songs.

The Actor should make you forget the existence of author and director, and even forget the actor.

Whether it is your work, your love, or your life - unless you throw your entire self into it, you will never know what it is.

When a doctor is performing an operation, his mind cannot be somewhere else. And it's the same with actors. You have to commit yourself mind, body and soul to a project in order to do justice to it.

I'm the kind of performer who gets lost on stage. I can tap into this soulful haze.