A Quote by Michael Stuhlbarg
When I try to go with what's happening and embrace that as much as I can, it seems to be a much smoother journey for me.
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You have to try and embrace it all and everyone who represents that change because it is happening.
When not much is happening and there seems to be nothing you can do to change that, you do wonder. But I am an actor, like it or not. I stuck with it and took what was offered.
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I cannot go on.... All that I have written seems to me like so much straw compared to what I have seen and what has been revealed to me.
It seems to me that maybe pretty much always means no. So dont tell me, I might just let it go.
I wish that I did the things that I really believe in, because when I do, my life goes much smoother.
So something about that touched me, obviously, when I was young and it just stayed with me. I'm always amazed by that, because my experience seems to be so much different than what I'm told, so much of the time.
Any artist is an instrument-and that's exactly why you can't do it all the time. You can only do it when it's happening, when it's coming through. No matter how much you may want to do it, if it's not happening then it's simply not happening.
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