I like creating something from nothing and hearing it on the radio or on stage or from somebody driving down the street singing it. It's like building a house, taking a vacant piece of land, and next thing you know, there's a house with somebody living in it.
That's what I love about my faith and Christianity. It's the polar opposite of darn near everything I experienced in the wrestling business. I still love the business, and I'm thankful for everything that it's provided, but the idea that it deals in the truth is the furthest thing from reality.
I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work.
When anarchy is declared, the first thing we do, let's kill all the anarchists.
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim.
The most important thing is to be passionate and ready to accept the pains that sometimes go along with the business.
When I feel I'm repeating myself, I'll probably pack it in. What will undoubtedly happen is I'll write one too many. The important thing is to recognize when you've written too many and stop there.
But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.
My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.
It's a challenge to do satire when the thing you're satirizing is almost beyond satire, but I think that's a challenge for everybody.
When you're a chef, you graze. You never get a chance to sit down and eat. They don't actually sit down and eat before you cook. So when I finish work, the first thing I'll do, and especially when I'm in New York, I'll go for a run. And I'll run 10 or 15k on my - and I run to gain my appetite.
The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income.
A lot of women use pregnancy as an excuse to let their bodies go, and that's the worst thing.
We took the whole thing far too seriously. After all, those were early days in television.
The wonderful thing is that it's so incredibly easy to be kind.
If I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm studying for the SATs.
One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless.
My wife asked me if I ever thought I would ever retire from stand-up. And I thought about it, and I was like, 'No, because it's my job; it's what I do, and I enjoy it.' It's still the most challenging thing for me to do.
I have a short attention span. And when I'm in the middle of one thing, I'm then drawn to the next thing.
I've already created my own thing.
It's the sad thing about entertainment, it's not always about who is the best.
Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
You'll see more violence in any television crime series than you will in my films... Art is there to have a stimulating effect, if it earns its name. You have to be honest, that's the only thing.
When I first started out, I got criticism for the way I looked. I think, now, it's a good thing because, why would you want to look like everyone else?
It's a lovely thing to have people in any circumstance appreciate your work.
I sort of missed one big thing, to touch first base. I hope I didn't act foolish, but this is history.
Godard is incredibly brilliant, the things he says. Apparently here in France, the most interesting thing when a new film of his is going to come out are his press conferences, because he's so brilliant.
As actors, the thing we have to fight, more than even the business part of making movies, is boredom.
The basic thing a man should know is how to change a tyre and how to drive a tractor. Whatever that bearded dude is doing on the Dos Equis beer commercials sets the bar. That's your guy. Every man should be aiming to be like him. The beard is just the tip of the iceberg.
The most obvious thing I do is I don't wear a burqa, and I'm definitely not oppressed. Plus, I'm quite obviously an independent thinker, which means as soon as I walk on stage, I dispel a lot of those stereotypes.
I'm the farthest thing from a bibliophile. I purge my collection regularly: If I haven't read a book in a couple of years, I try to give it to someone who will.
The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security.
If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.
Some men play golf. I've got this crazy thing about maintaining our nation's maritime heritage.
