Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
I'm impatient. Typically people think they know all about change and don't need help. Their approach tends to be more management-oriented than leadership-oriented. It's very frustrating.
I just like to think rather than talk. But I enjoy everyone's company.
Why doesn't that Devil take me with him? It would be much better with him than it is here.
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
After being in Harry Potter, I believe a bit more in magic than I did before.
Many people do think it's naive to improvise in front of paying customers. I'm not saying one way is better than another.
It was a fun job but I'd never claim Busted was anything other than a pop band.
But I'd be lying if I didn't say that every time you go to make a film, you're desperate to either do it better than you did it last time or to not repeat yourself.
Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it's better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life.
Merit should count more than academic background.
I definitely feel more complete than before. There's a void you have when you don't feel you've found the other part of who you are, so I'm in a different place now and that's nice to experience.
For many Europeans the next decade looks to be filled with threats rather than opportunities.
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.
If you have more money than you need, you have to give it away. It's a duty. I get to choose whom to sponsor, and I like to give to the areas that I know something about.
There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.
Also, the commercial media in a superior position, really, to any other corporate lobby, because where would people hear about commercial media or corporate media criticism, where would they hear criticism of them other than in the commercial media?
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
The counterculture has nothing to do with Dolce & Gabbana having a 'Hippy Summer' or something. Street kids, and kids who want to live in any sort of counter-cultural experience other than what's being presented by the mainstream media or political climate, or 'normal' cultural climate, are never going to look like that.
When you get pure joy out of 'being' rather than 'doing' or 'seeing', that's when you realize how big and unexplainable some things are and being a dad is one of those very few things.
There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.
Quite a few operas are still being commissioned around the world, although nothing apart from audience popularity can ensure more than a few performances.
The only way change will ever happen is if we speak up, and we have to know that it actually has an impact. Because we have a lot more power than we think we do, I think.
I've spent a lot of my teenage years working on sets. I've missed out on more than just playing rugby, but I think I've managed to keep my feet on the ground and keep my friends around me.
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
The depth of this conflict, which is more than one hundred years old, requires us to find a way to communicate... so that the residents of the Middle East, Jews and Arabs alike, can live not as if they were forced to live together, but rather destined to live together.
About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.
Honestly, I never wanted to be more than a good supporting actor. Really, I enjoy it.
There is nothing more important than a good, safe, secure home.
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
Fox News is nothing if not impressive. No matter how harsh the criticism it endures, the network somehow always manages to prove itself even worse than we had previously imagined.
Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
You see, party labels do not ensure unanimity any more than trying to cast the challenge we confront as a people through a partisan prism.
