We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.
I think the unemployment rate for actors is pretty much the same in Sydney, London and New York. In all three cities, there are more actors than there are jobs. But I do think that there are far more acting opportunities in London and New York than in Sydney, where there are approximately seven actors that you see over and over again in every play.
No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friedrich von Hayek.
I've always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.
Anyone who knows me, knows I don't walk away from a commitment, but I had a commitment to myself. Yes, there were times Nickelodeon made it more difficult than it needed to be, but there were also times they made it easier.
Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.
It's important to slow down, every now and then, for no other reason than to call someone to say 'Hi.' It doesn't have to be a long conversation. Just calling out of the blue does more to let someone know you still care about them than nearly anything else.
When you choose the hard things, it takes longer than you think to get it done, and if you choose the hard thing and have a very particular way you want to do them and are uncompromising in that, then sometimes it takes even longer.
I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to.
There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.
There are a lot of Grinches out there that would like nothing better than to take any references to religion out of the holiday season.
Exploitation films were famous for taking an issue an exploiting it because they could move much faster than a studio could. If there was any hot topic, they would run out and make a quick movie and make a buck on it, by changing it around and using it, in some way, to give some relevance.
I've always moved between media. Some ideas just work better in some media than others.
The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.
I think that there's become a very clickbait mentality among a lot of reporters, where they're more interested in their clip or their click than they are about the truth and the facts.
Death Valley is really wide-open - it's bigger than Rhode Island - and it's less a part of California than an ungoverned territory, so there's lots of weird cops-and-robbers stuff going on.
I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated.
Nothing fools you better than the lie you tell yourself.
Rather than proposing a forward-looking energy initiative, House Republicans continue to push Big Oil's tired old ideas, ideas that will do absolutely nothing to lower gas prices for the American consumer.
It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.
It goes way, way back when we were under Sweden's rule. We always think they are better than us. We played against them so often for so many years. Every country has one opponent they want to beat and for us, it's Sweden.
Place hitting is, in a sense, glorified bunting. I only take a half swing at the ball, and the weight of the bat rather than my swing is what drives it.
No leader did more for his country than Winston Churchill. Brave, magnanimous, traditional, he was like a king-general from Britain's heroic past. His gigantic qualities set him apart from ordinary humanity; there seemed no danger he feared, no effort too great for his limitless energies.
Damn referees, I'll miss them less than anybody.
I think he's much funnier in many ways than some of the things that I've done. Because it's a little bit more layered. He's constantly trying to teach Luke what he thinks are really deep philosophical ideas, but they're really simple.
It's better to know your story than not to know.
I can't imagine anything more debilitating, anything more challenging, anything more thrilling than to get on a stage and do any kind of play. It is such a vulnerable place for any actor to be in.
Sometimes, I get so annoyed when other people brag. And sometimes, I know that I'm better than that or I've got something better in the works; I don't say anything. I just say, 'Really? That's great.'
How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.
The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.
We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.
Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror.
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.
In some ways, siblings, and especially sisters, are more influential in your childhood than your parents.
