I'm working harder than ever now, and I'm putting on my pants the same as I always have. I just get up every day and try to do a little better than the day before, and that is to run a great restaurant with great food, great wine, and great service. That's my philosophy.
The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.
Let me tell you, I've never heard a man whine more than Jason Momoa getting knocked around by little ol' me.
It was very important to me to be with a woman who is better than me at some things. You want someone who brings new, interesting things into your life.
In my view, a united Ireland is inevitable, and it is certainly more likely than a voluntary coalition which doesn't include Sinn Fein.
Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
I think quite often a fate worse than death is life, for lots of people.
I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.
Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.
For too long people have backed companies on hope value rather than solid products coming out. Now we are coming out the other side.
Towards the end it got really rough. I take my hat of to Alice, he's still doing it. This is probably more work than going on the road for 2-3 months. I wish I was 25 again!
Wrestlers are a little more dedicated than, and are different from, the other people, which may be strange.
Honestly, I'm willing to experiment with far more variety in roles than I'm given. But ultimately, it's the producer's decision. But, I've done a variety of roles - the evil don, the evil husband... I've done villainous roles, supporting roles, etc.
We used to tie-dye T-shirts and sell them to classmates. We used to make egg rolls and sell them at street fairs. I worked at the mall. My parents probably spent more money on the gas driving me to different jobs than I made.
Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody.
One of the biggest gifts you can give a child is confidence, because confidence will take you miles - more than talent, more than anything else. So yes, I want my children to have confidence and to be kind.
There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
The inconvenience, the glaring lights, the long hours of waiting, and the repetition of every scene are all calculated to defeat anything more than a real mastery of love technique.
In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read magazines, and a poem takes less time than an article.
Scotland needs comedy more than ever. With the independence debate, finally after 300 years, reaching room temperature.
The vaunted Democratic stimulus bill has failed to stimulate anything other than a few federal bureaucrats.
My mouth has a tendency to get me into trouble, but because I'm so small and I take on people who are lager than me. If someone punched me, I'd get my drummer beat them up.
Our job is to make manifest the story, to be it. In a sense, the theatre is such a big star itself, bigger than any Shakespearean actor I could hire, that we should take the opportunity to fill it with voice and verse and movement, not interpretation.
You know, I'm from the Midwest, man - that shapes my personality much more than having gone to Harvard.
No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does.
I don't care what people think about me because I know I am more than all the pain and strife they hold inside.
I chose my pen name when I was ten, because I knew even then that my legal name would be more trouble than it was worth.
She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of two evils.
When you look at women and what's sexy right now, I feel like we're finally back to a curvaceous healthy body rather than just skinny with fake boobs.
Even in political considerations, now-a-days, you have stronger motives to feel interested in the fate of Europe than in the fate of the Central or Southern parts of America.
Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.
When you are coming out, you say it's for you. But when everybody says it's not OK, it becomes about that rather than about you. It disappointed me.
If you ask people do you think that government should spend less money than what it takes in, most people agree with that.
Capitalism in Russia has spawned far more Al Capones than Henry Fords.
On stage you look much larger than you are. You can have subtle changes of timing; how you place a punch line in a joke or movement or emotion according to an audience.
When a little more than a teenager, I was a piano-bar pianist in the land where I was born and raised, Tuscany.
