There's something great about driving through studio gates and leaving all your responsibilities behind.
You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself.
Something I always try to practice is be anxious for nothing, but let your request be known to God.
How you present yourself is nobody's business but your own. The stylists have an opinion. The hair people have an opinion. The fans and the management have opinions. Ultimately, you have to trust that you are the safe-keeper of yourself.
The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.
I pattern my actions and life after what I want. No two people are alike. You might admire attributes in others, but use these only as a guide in improving yourself in your own unique way. I don't go for carbon copies. Individualism is sacred!
Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.
Having a purpose and knowing exactly what your values are will add additional years to your life.
I go into my workroom seven mornings a week. There will only be one or two mornings a week where it seems to be going well, but to earn those days you have to go through slow, slodgy days where your mind feels like porridge.
I figure it could become a self-fulfilling prophecy; if I make a successful arena rock record, I'll wind up playing arenas! I wouldn't mind being back in that kind of venue because of the kinds of things you can do with production. You can make your shows more interesting, which would be fun to do.
Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
We believe... that by encouraging critical thinking and processing of knowledge we are creating full, well-rounded human beings... that will enable Qatar to build up its society. You cannot build a healthy society without giving your citizens a sense of ownership. Otherwise, they will not share with you the responsibilities.
Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!
We often think about happiness as trying to increase our joy, but it's also about decreasing our worry. So what you get for paying those high taxes is, if you're a parent thinking about putting your child through school, you don't have to worry about it, because all education through college is free.
Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.
Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.
Successful collaboration, in your mind, could be that your opinion is the most valuable and becomes the prevailing sort of direction. That's not collaborating.
There's almost nothing that distracts you from your day-to-day problems more than a trip. You're totally consumed in the present, you've got new sense impressions, you've got all this stuff to digest.
Speed Racer is good to cut your teeth on, but if anyone has not seen Akira, go get it.
Freewill means that the Universe never judges, never interferes with your own choices - and sees you as a being of equal creative power.
If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.
Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate.
When a woman is frustrated, and it's your wife, you as the husband get that frustration.
It's weird when you get roles that coincide with your life.
Well, you might as well imitate your own program because if you don't, someone else will.
I like porterhouse steak, rib-eyes and New York strip. This works for me because I have very low cholesterol and low blood pressure. It's not good for everyone; you have to talk to your doctor about that. I also eat fish and cheese. I like clean food prepared as simply as possible.
You never know where your influences are going to come from, or where you're going to find your inspiration.
Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
If you have to lie, cheat, steal, obstruct and bully to get your point across, it must not be a point capable of surviving on its own merits.
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.
I also take vitamins because I think when you take care of yourself on the inside it makes a big difference in your skin.
At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.
I think a lot of times it's not money that's the primary motivation factor; it's the passion for your job and the professional and personal satisfaction that you get out of doing what you do that motivates you.
Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
One of the strangest things about being an actor is that people you don't know feel that they are allowed to comment on your hair, body, clothes, relationships.
What you make up in your heads sticks if it's good, falls out if it's bad. If we still remember something a day after we made it up, it might be worth building on.
