My aspiration isn't to be famous; it's to design clothes. If that gets me attention at the end of the day, cool.
A lot of Democrats are not that upset with Howard Dean. Howard Dean gets out here and he says these inflammatory things, and he doesn't apologize. He doesn't back down a little bit.
Collective solutions to individual problems is very seductive. It's how Obama gets elected, by the way.
I just felt it was my job to show that there is no easy way to success, and that anyone who gets even just one Top 40 hit deserves their moment in the sun. I accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative. That is the timeless thing.
Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.
I believe that we have the ability to change our lives using our imaginations. Imagination is a muscle - the more you use it, the stronger it gets.
I do get a lot of mail. I get a lot of foreign mail because my mail gets mixed with Emilio Estevez.
There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.
If the economy grows, housing gets better, quicker.
One of the annoying things when you're in a movie is that gets talked about is everyone projects meaning onto everyone's intentions.
Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.
I think Stephen Sondheim is a - and I hardly ever use this word - but this is as close as it gets to a genius.
The commercial broadcasters have tremendous influence in Washington, D.C., for a couple of reasons. First, they're extremely rich and they have lots of money and they have had for a long time, so they can give money to politicians, which gets their attention.
Remember, if you do the same act for 20, 30 years it gets a little boring unless you've got something else going for you... And the orchestra really kept you going. They'd laugh at all your jokes, even if they'd been hearing them for the last 30 years.
If people still trust me with a funny line, then that is fine. If that is what gets me work.
Nobody gets anything for nothing.
If you think before you speak the other guy gets his joke in first.
A man who gets divorced is not forever going to be talked about for it. There are very different standards that we have for women than we have for men.
I don't know what it's like to be an actor, where if your show gets canceled, really you're just a bum.
If you don't spend the time you need on developing characters and finding stories, complicated stories, the audience gets tired because they think they're seeing the same thing again and again.
My mother and I, our favorite part of any baked pasta is the top, where the cheese gets crusty.
In other words, the celebrity gets out of hand, and if you're not careful, you will forget what you are about - and that is you are about making music that people want to hear.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
You replace it by 23 percent tax, a frank, transparent tax embedded in the cost at retail, and everybody gets to takes their whole check home. And the average income earner gets a 50 percent increase in take-home pay.
I find that each job that I do, the thing that gets me there is when I'm not smarter than it, when I don't know instantly how that thing is made. Because if I do, then it's boring. Or it would be simple.
Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
When James Bond gets old, you get rid of him and bring a new James Bond in.
When you have more than two people working together, it gets a bit unfocused as an idea.
It's often been said that you learn more from losing than you do from winning. I think, if you're wise, you learn from both. You learn a lot from a loss. You learn what is it that we're not doing to get to where we want to go. It really gets your attention and it really motivates the work ethic of your team when you're not doing well.
We didn't get to see a lot of movies in my house growing up, so the first time I got to go to the movies - I think it was 'E.T.' - I was like, 'Oh my God, somebody else gets my imagination!'
One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.
After a while, no matter how much you love any pop song, you're going to get tired of it. That's the way it is with any entertainment. It's good when you first hear it or see it, you like it for a while, then it gets old. It gets chewed up and spit out and it's done.
He's a good tough producer, yes. But I don't think that he's unreasonable unless he feels threatened. And when somebody's in your home, I think everybody in the home gets threatened.
Any audience that gets a laugh out of me gets it while I'm facing them.
No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the emergency room every time a child gets sick. And no one should have to live in constant fear that a medical problem will become a financial crisis.
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
