I have got pictures all around the rooms I sit in. I have got a very mad picture of a dog standing on a black thing on a piece of rope. It was drawn and painted by a Romanian poet who was under house arrest, and it is terrific.
The only thing that we as actors really can control is to be able to say 'yes' or 'no' to the material.
One thing the gay rights movement taught the world is the importance of being visible.
I had to admit I'd pretty much failed at the whole low-profile thing.
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
I don't know why you are treating me like this. The only thing I have done is carry a pistol into a movie.
The first thing the federal government can do to help is get out of the way.
At one time they've been the most important thing to me. So I can't hear our records on the radio, I can't stand it, because they sound so out of what everyone else is doing.
I'm always going back to one thing - my family... It's my family, my religion, my fighters. Put them in any order you want.
The one thing a lifetime in the newspaper business teaches you is pace - you spend all your time trying to make sure that the reader's going to finish what you're writing.
It can be an educational thing to play your songs to people because you see where you've gone right and where you've gone wrong.
What you never want to do is have a story that doesn't track emotionally, because then you're going joke to joke and you're going to fatigue the audience. The only thing that's going to string them to the next joke is how successful the previous joke is.
Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.
The red carpet is a beautiful situation for people. I think everybody appreciates it and loves it and honors it. Nobody really acts a fool because they know this is a one-time thing.
Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.
The Times' new credibility committee report that was issued on Monday very specifically said they will be putting in a policy that reporters must get permission from their department heads to appear on television, which I think is a really good thing.
Even if what you're working on doesn't go anywhere, it will help you with the next thing you're doing. Make yourself available for something to happen. Give it a shot.
The one thing you learn from looking at places like Afghanistan is that the power of business to do good is enormous.
I think a lot of young kids at school are very conscious of trying to keep credibility in case they kind of stand out in a crowd and get bullied by trying to stay cool and stuff. And my whole thing, all the way through school, was I was just a goof... I didn't care.
I think the thing that I admire about Rick Santorum is that he hasn't backed down or apologized one bit for his personal religious views, for standing up for social conservative values.
The interesting thing about the China story, getting back to the macro and micro, and as dire as I think the macro story is - due to bad credit and credit extension that makes Greece and Spain and the U.S. look like child's play - when you get to the micro of individual companies, they look even worse.
If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show.
Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all.
The good thing about SUVs is they have storage.
In the mental calmness of a spiritual life, I have found that the answers to the whys in our lives are able to come to you. In my music I find the same thing.
I've done the same thing in the world of business that winners do in the game. I watch them, admire them.
I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.
I'm just really impressed by oil paintings - I don't see how people do it! That's the style I like: classic oil paintings. Abstract art just isn't my thing.
I think the only consistent thing is that I like projects that explore different social themes. 'Our Family Wedding' is a comedy, but it deals with two different cultures coming together. It's also about people letting go.
It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging.
The important thing for me as an artist is to keep going back to the page and doing what I do.
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
Being in Australia, I was really sun conscious. For a couple of summers there, I did the baby oil thing, and my my mom said, 'Just don't. You'll regret it.'
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
If a thing is going to represent you, your vision, you should be involved in every aspect of that thing. I like my role as executive producer on anything probably as much as performer.
I had been nine years in the theatre and hadn't had massive success. My only thing was I wanted to be an actor and I didn't care when, where, or how much for.
