If my parents were still alive, they would be very proud. They gave me a good start in life, the values that have driven me, and the confidence to believe in myself.
I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.
Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.
I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness... I think of the patina of age on materials, of innumerable small scratches on surfaces, of varnish that has grown dull and brittle, and of edges polished by use.
Playing well with others is important - not being too flashy, just keeping good time and of course coming up with cool beats. A good snare drum, kick drum, high hat. Just getting good at the hand feet coordination.
Acting is the only thing I'm even vaguely good at and acting is something that I think I do know about.
Eyebrows are really important because they structure the face. In school it was funny because I was always the one walking around with tweezers plucking my girlfriends' eyebrows. I was really good; eyebrow tweezing runs in my family - my mother used to do mine, and I picked it up.
I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil.
Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
One thing that's good is I don't lose it if some old mate goes 'bang!' and hits me in the face.
I think having an outsider's viewpoint is interesting and good, especially for a comedian.
Let each one of us say, 'I am an American. I intend to stay an American. I will do my best to wipe from my heart hate, rancor and political prejudice. I will sustain my government. And, through good days or bad, I will try to serve my country.'
When I had a full-time job, I really wasn't that busy, but now I'm really busy. I guess that's a good thing.
People have found very significant and simple ways to cheat their employer and get money out of their employers, and many companies lack good internal controls.
I get along great with all of my exes. That's really cool. That's a good sign.
There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
One of the greatest men to ever walk this land was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His life exemplified unity by bringing people together for the good of all. In any small way I hope to someday bring people together like Dr. King.
I was as happy doing theater in New York for little or no money as I am now doing television for more money. The happiness, I guess, comes out of it being a good job. The success has to do with the fact that it's a good job that will continue.
Actors are the best and the worst of people. They're like kids. When they're good, they're very very good. When they're bad they're very very naughty.
I ultimately have faith though, that good films will find their audience.
The idea that if people are just friendly and demonstrate they want peace, that will be answered with good will - that is really naive.
Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people.
No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.
When most people hit failure, they give up, but good entrepreneurs simply treat failure as a learning experience and use it to fuel and inform their next move.
It is very important as a human being to be able to laugh at yourself and circumstances and particularly as a Christian. We have to know that good times don't last always and bad times don't last always.
The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.
What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
I was taking piano lessons with a very good piano instructor in Toronto, and I'm afraid due to my schedule and discipline, it kind of fell apart. One thing lead to another and I was unable to practice as much as I wanted to.
I think I'm good at training dogs, but none of my dogs agree with me on that.
A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.
When I get into the studio, it's not about trying to get a good song, it's about whatever comes naturally.
Seeing a new play in a first-time production is so exciting - when it's good, you want to shout from the rooftops.
I'm definitely a people person. I love socializing and being around people and having a good conversation.
My brother Alan - who was seven years younger than me - died from leukemia when he was 52. He never knew a day's good health - I wish I could have given him some of my good health. But he was always so cheerful and sweet.
