I thought if Oasis could get away with sounding like The Beatles, I could get away with sounding like Abba.
Country music has always been about as close to R&B as you can possibly get. We're storytellers.
It's tourists in New York. Everything is geared towards that. It's so hard on Broadway now for them to get people in there. They have to compete with so many other entertainments, so they have to bring a star in which puts people there out of work.
I've been really lucky. I think that you really get what you recognize is in the universe.
People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.
Sometimes, we need an obstacle to challenge us and push us further than we would if things were always status quo. I'd say one example is the market crashing. It's like, just when we started to get into a rhythm, everything changed! But, it taught us a great deal about how we do business and how we can improve.
When I graduated from college, I moved to New York and started doing improv because I read all about the early 'Saturday Night Live' guys having come through Second City and learning how to improvise, so I wanted to get immediately into that.
One has to swallow a bitter pill to get cured.
A longstanding dream of mine is to adapt 'Dune,' but it's a long process to get the rights, and I don't think I will succeed.
We started the company out of frustration with the employer that we had because we were building great stuff and there was no way that this stuff was ever going to get into the hands of the people who could use it.
I think the biggest backhanded criticism-compliment I get is that I'm 'good at communicating.' Which implies that you're bad at doing.
As America's head coach, President Obama needs to make some big and smart adjustments to jump-start economic growth and business investment, stimulate job creation, and get wages up for ordinary Americans.
My goal involves a hammock, a vegetable patch, and a solar-powered house. And I hope to eventually get there.
I get an awful lot of fan mail, and I read all that I can.
I wanted to be a director and producer and writer, but in the early '40's the union wouldn't let you get through the gates. You couldn't get on a crew, or even learn to direct.
I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music.
No one really knows what I'm really like, and you won't unless you spend a day with me, or if you're my friend. No one ever knows what anyone is really like. Read all the interviews you want on them, it's just the media talking and you can't really get to know someone that way, obviously.
I don't think a lot of really good films get seen.
There's a lot of us idiot actors that get tattoos and they cover them with makeup when you do a film.
My palate is simpler than it used to be. A young chef adds and adds and adds to the plate. As you get older, you start to take away.
Once you get offstage you're just like everyone else, and everyone else can get into a fight.
I watch a lot of home stuff; I like seeing things go from one thing to another and get fixed up.
I'm impossible to direct. I couldn't get myself to do anything.
Labor, under their current leadership, want to be the Downtown Abbey party when it comes to educational opportunity. They think working class children should stick to the station in life they were born into - they should be happy to be recognized for being good with their hands and not presume to get above themselves.
The hip-hop community is made up of a lot of hustlers. Everybody is trying to get theirs, and everybody is trying to eat.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
I don't know if you know this - I don't drive a stick. I mean, I barely drive my automatic. I get to work and everything, but I'm not any kind of driving prodigy.
The great thing about doing theater is that you get to do it better the next night.
The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it.
You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.
I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart. They get so many messages that tell them the most important thing is to be beautiful.
I had spent many years before I was 31 hearing people tell me, Oh Man, you're so funny, you need to be in television. But that and a quarter won't get you on a bus.
I don't think of my music in terms of a career. I just want to get it out there and do it. I'm not manipulating my sound to be like anybody or trying to write to sound like anybody else.
I started writing at the age of seventeen because I had a teacher in high school who said that we had to get something accepted by a national magazine to get an A. The teacher later withdrew that threat, but the writing bug bit me.
My mother was a writer. She acted in one film before she decided that Bollywood wasn't good enough for her. My two sisters and I probably learned from her how to get under other people's skin. In contrast, my father was a simple man despite his success at business. He was a people person, and I think that's what led him to join politics.
Many are called but few get up.
