Reflection : (507)

" I know myself and I know it’s dangerous if I just internalise everything. " - Joey Barton

" There was a time when people had the decency to wait until they were approaching 50 to have a mid-life crisis. Now it seems many thirtysomethings find themselves succumbing to existential navel-gazing. " - Mark Barrowcliffe

" I worked so much when my first son was born that I missed a lot. " - Cuba Gooding, Jr.

" It’s never enjoyable watching yourself. Because you’re never as good looking as you hope you are. You’re not expecting to be Penelope Cruz… but I’m a female of the species. I have my hang-ups and all of that. " - Anne-Marie Duff

" It’s funny to see the finished product of a movie, stuff that’s so beautiful, and to remember the particulars. " - Amy Ryan

" Film wise, I invariably look at my work and reckon I could have done it better. I’m also conscious that I’m in a profession where we get more praise than we should compared to the usefulness of what we do. " - Jeremy Irons

" A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see. " - Roland Barthes

" When I was filming, I imagined that Legolas was a meditative character who was very thoughtful and had a certain amount of depth to him. I started working on trying to find this focus that Legolas has, which wasn’t really like me. " - Orlando Bloom

" I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which only makes itself present by virtue of what it reflects, and a window, which doesn’t make itself apparent at all, in the ideal case. " - Jonathan Miller

" People talk about this ‘bucket list’: ‘I need to go to this country, I need to skydive.’ Whereas I need to think as much as I can, to feel as much as I can, to be conscious and observe and understand me and the people around me as much as I can. " - Amy Tan