When you’re watching a movie and find yourself getting emotional, it’s because you’re bringing something personal to the images. It’s the same thing with acting. You’re bringing the essence of your core emotional being to that moment.
The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.
The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.
I love to compete. That’s the essence of who I am.
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.
Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human.
I think optimism springs from nature. I’m a gardener. Nature has taught me about rhythm, the essence of every art. With so much that is terrible, nature gives me pleasure.
In essence, I owe my career to Garry Marshall. There was no known reason for him to hire me for ‘Pretty Woman.’
When I’m writing from a character’s viewpoint, in essence I become that character; I share their thoughts, I see the world through their eyes and try to feel everything they feel.
In essence, we’re imaging the same cell for anywhere from forty to a hundred thousand times to create one of the movies that we see.
The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.
The American War of Independence is the expulsion of the intrusive elements, alien to the American essence. If American reality is the reinvention of itself, whatever is found in any way irreducible or unassimilable is not American.
At the end of the day, none of us are doing an impression of the guys we are playing; we are just trying to create the essence of what they do for a living and go through with their families.
The essence of conversation is not which media format we choose to talk to each other with, so we don’t differentiate between snaps and chats. It’s just someone wanting to talk to you.
In essence, Trump thinks everything should be about him, for him, for his benefit and glorification – and he can’t comprehend, and doesn’t care about, anything that isn’t.
Our dream is to one day uncover the essence of what makes us human.
Documentaries are a powerful and effective way of bridging the gap between worlds, breaking through to new audiences that wouldn’t otherwise be engaged – in essence, not preaching to the choir.
The pain comes from knowing that we have never been safe, and therefore will never be safe again. It comes from knowing we can never be so ignorant again. It comes from knowing we can never be children again. Losing innocence. Remembering heaven. That was the essence of hell.
One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly.
The whole essence of the Christian religion is based on the atonement of Christ, his death and his resurrection.
Curiosity is the essence of human existence. ‘Who are we? Where are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?’… I don’t know. I don’t have any answers to those questions. I don’t know what’s over there around the corner. But I want to find out.
If there is one creature that represents my essence, it’s butterflies.
I believe that dialogue is the key to breaking through our tendency to separate and isolate. Dialogue changes isolation and loneliness into connection and interdependence. This, I believe, is the essence of Buddhism.
In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God’s creation… as music.
Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.
Making poetry with a camera – that’s the essence of what I do.
The essence of cinema is editing. It’s the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy.
This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature’s essence.
The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise.
I saw a martyr in the Wolf Man, who is the very moving essence of outsiderness, with which I identified fully.
I feel responsible, as many other people’s lives hang on the success of a drama in which I appear. But in essence, I think having various experiences and dialogues with different people helps me improve my acting more than taking lessons.
That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.
I feel nationalism is the basic essence of my statements or revolts.
I feel like women have so much more to offer: our essence, or flavor, and our part of the story.
If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.
The natural law is, in essence, a profoundly ‘radical’ ethic, for it holds the existing status quo, which might grossly violate natural law, up to the unsparing and unyielding light of reason.
That whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence.
Faith is pretty much the essence of mine and Grace’s being.
I could not have been happier with ‘The Lincoln Lawyer.’ They got the essence, and the casting, starting with McConaughey, was just perfect.
Good acting comes from finding the essence of a character.
You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
I really think I tried to capture the essence of the comics: what I thought would be the essence of Elektra. And then, as any character that I play, I really tried to dig inside me and try to reach real emotions and transpose that in her world, in who she is.
Essence is something I always enjoy, because I love New Orleans. Since they brought it back to New Orleans, it’s a special place to me. We been doing it since the beginning. We did it when it was in Houston, but there’s nothing like New Orleans.
The true essence of fashion is being able to reinvent yourself with what you have.
A Rube Goldberg machine is, in its essence, a trial-and-error thing.
If we had no hope – for a cure, for winning the lottery, for falling in love, for the end of war, for being free of abuse, or for having food, warmth, clothing, and shelter – we would have no reason to go on. What you hope for doesn’t matter, but rather the essence of hope itself.
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life, you don’t get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends.
I’m always uneasy with messages. I think if there is a message, it’s about taking control of your life. Not becoming a victim. Be true to yourself. In essence it’s about love in the drug culture.
To me, that is the essence of me as a photographer. It is those ideas, working with them, formulating them and eventually putting them down on paper, photographing them and then going on to the next step.
In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization’s hardest winters.
No, as much of an insider as I become, I will still always be an outsider. It’s just the essence of me being who I am and doing what I do.
I was a janitor when I was 16, cleaning out garbage rooms in Washington, D.C., and they were foul. It gets really hot in D.C. in the summertime, and you then take on the essence of garbage. People would stand away from me on the sidewalk as I came toward them.
Hot Boyz always shouted out a lot of things relevant to Texas so I connected with it. They were our neighbors and growing up we went to Louisiana every year for Mardi Gras, Bayou Classic and the Essence festival, so we grew up taking trips to Lafayette and New Orleans. Those were three annual trips.
I always believe that speed is the essence for any sport.
Conflicting views and contrasting ideas are the essence of all great debates throughout history, from the Greeks to the Oxford Union Debating Society. Today, we turn to television for the creative clash of ideas on matters that touch our lives.
Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.
I believe that change is the essence of life.
As much as I say I am uncomfortable with too much attention, but in essence that’s what I, every artiste works for.
I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime.
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.
With human beings it could be argued that all music-making is, in essence, grounded in improvisation.
Good poets have written in order to describe something or to preach something – with their eye on the object or the end. The essence of the poetry does not lie in the thing described or in the message imparted but in the resulting concrete unity, the poem.
