The important thing is to remember what most impressed you and to put it on canvas as fast as possible.
I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.
Most of the time, I don't really give people a chance. I have a wall up. I'm always protecting who I am. Thinking about my brand. I make it hard on people. Sometimes, it's a good thing. Sometimes, it's a bad thing.
That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.
Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling.
The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.
That's the thing about musicians: The priority is to create something new that's never been before. And you put your life on the line every time that you play.
Just because I'm doing 'Star Wars' doesn't mean that'll be the thing that makes people stop me in the street.
Lust is temporary, romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without love, lust and romance will always be short-lived.
It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.
Well, one thing for sure, I won't be remembered for 'Free Willy.' Or maybe I will.
I have a dad-ager. My dad is really good at the business end of things. But it's really a family affair. My mother handles all my social media stuff - Facebook, Twitter, e-mails, that kind of thing.
I injured myself quite badly when I was seventeen. I broke my ankle, and it didn't heal in such a way that I could keep dancing at the level I wanted to. It wasn't like, 'Oh my god, I'll never play the violin again.' I could, but not at the level I wanted. So, I segued into acting, the other thing that was also meaningful to me.
That's the thing with animated films - I often feel that puppets get the better parts compared to us normal actresses.
How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.
My daughter's the greatest thing that's happened to me in my life and she turned me into a more responsible man, as opposed to just someone who's a perpetual teenager, thinking you're a man when you're not.
This is an important thing: People who live in the mainstream and the status quo think that everyone else is there to serve them.
The best thing about getting older is knowing history. The longer you live, the longer you have been in a sport, the more you know, and the more you know where things started.
My children are the only thing in my life that makes me happy.
Youth is an amazing thing: I think back on when we did The Lost Boys, and I didn't think I could do anything wrong.
It's not always the easiest thing to be the center of so much spilled ink.
What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
I didn't worry about leaving the fast lane - I was just so consumed with my baby that it seemed like the right thing to do. I never felt like I left New York, though. If you've lived in a place and loved it, you never feel like you left it.
Oh, some day I'll tell you about why I wrote more than 1,500 Gmail filters. They throw away more than 300 emails every day. Every day. It's the best thing I ever did for my productivity.
I think London, New York, Paris, Milan, any big city has its own fashion. I don't know why they make such a big thing of Paris. I think maybe it comes from French New Wave films portraying the French girl as very feminine.
If you're at a restaurant and someone asks, 'Fresh pepper?,' the answer is yes. When people shake off the fresh pepper, they clearly have no interest in living a full life. Same thing goes for grated Parmesan. Why would you turn that down?
If you're a boxer, you have your trainer. As an actor, I have Ivana Chubbuck. She's my teacher as an actress and in this crazy thing called life.
It's not a deliberate thing. It's not like I was rejecting the UK, which is what the papers said. It's just that when you spend a lot of time in your formative years around an accent, you're going to pick it up. I had been living in LA for a bit and that's what happened.
I'm not in control of my fate, and that's a good thing.
The truth is that sometimes art may not exactly reflect one's personal politics, but the story, the drama, the thing you're trying to say, might want to go in a certain direction, and while it may seem like it has resonance with things that are happening topically, you kind of want the world you're creating to have its own internal logic.
I like those crisis moments - if you're on top of it and don't get pulled under by panic and fear, it's a very bonding thing.
The - the sort of thing that I want to do is to strike a resonant chord of universality in other people, which is best done by fiction.
The most disappointing thing this week is that Mitt Romney picked Paul Ryan, because he was the intellectual leader of the Republican Party. Because Paul Ryan decided to join Mitt Romney's ticket, he is completely reversed himself on some of the issues he has been very strong on, like the $716 billion in savings that are in two of his budgets.
Personally, I've never been attracted to danger. It's not my sort of thing. I am more attracted to pubs and cafes. The known, safe and comfortable world.
He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.
Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.
