I've had my ups and downs, and I definitely have a sense - in America, especially - that once you've made your mark and gotten your Rolling Stone piece and your Grammy nomination, that they're on to the next piece of meat, and they don't necessarily like to follow the twists and turns of an artistic career.
I'm so different from the egotistical, self-centred person I was when I did those things. And to watch someone acting out your memories on the screen is like reliving it. Like someone taking you back and showing you what you did.
Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.
I would suggest always getting behind a company that shares your goals, whom you have access to the people who run it and who truly care about the world. This way we steer the ship together and many fears can be let go of.
You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.
If you have donated, these children may never know your name, but they will never forget your kindness.
I'm trying everything. But voice work is the best thing you ever imagined. It's not about how you look, and you can go to work in your PJs.
I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists; or surrender power. It's your choice.
Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
People talk, 'Oh your father's a misogynist, look what he said about women,' like, on 'Howard Stern.' When he gets with Howard Stern, who's a friend of his, he'll joke around, because it's a comedy show. He's allowed to have a personality.
They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.
When you listen to other women's stories you begin to understand your own better and you begin to find ways back through and with each other.
Employees are your most valuable assets. They are the heart and guts of a company. This doesn't mean that from time to time, you aren't going to do what is good for the company.
Don't wallow in brainstorming. Time spent fiddling with a business plan or filling up whiteboards with ideas is time that you could spend actually launching your business and seeing if the idea floats. Launching gives you real, solid feedback, instead of the imaginary 'what if' scenarios dreamed up in a conference room.
If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it.
I think when you're working with a character that another writer is acting as - for lack of a better word - custodian of, your obligation as a professional is to not do anything that violates that 'primary' take.
If you look at body fat, it seems to increase with age, even though your weight does not. That's a physiological fact of aging, they say. Heck it is. It is an adaptive effect of aging.
Devices are getting smarter - your television, your car - and that means more data spread around. There needs to be a fabric that connects all these devices. That's what we do.
You know, one of my fears about living alone so long is that you get used to doing everything your own way.
As an actor, you always want to root for your characters.
If you worry about financial Armageddon, it is indeed metaphorically the time to stock your bunker with guns, ammunition, canned food and gold bars.
I mean, I'm a conservative. I believe that, you know, if you borrow too much, you just build up debts for your children to pay off. You put pressure on interest rates. You put at risk your economy. That's the case in Britain. We're not a reserve currency, so we need to get on and deal with this issue.
To lose your temper is only useful once a year.
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely to find friends, or a small furry animal that's lost to find its parents; it lasts as long as a quick avowal of love; it lasts precisely as long as the average parent is disposed on a Tuesday night to spend reading aloud to children.
When you have an idea for a work and when you've finished your model for it, for the artist it's almost complete, in a way. But then bringing it to the finish is really something you do for the audience. It is always exciting.
I think that ultimately your age is determined by your attitude. It's not the number; it's not how many wrinkles you have on your face. It's the energy that you project.
You don't have to sacrifice who you are to follow your beliefs.
Divorce isn't just the person, it's everything that goes with it - your kids, the adjustment, everything.
Roads are necessary, but the fact that we don't fully recognize that when you build a road you're doing more than building a road - you're building the future development of your city. And, that's what's never dawned on people. It still doesn't, in a way.
In your life, where are you not making mistakes? Sometimes if there's no mess, there's no change happening.
War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.
God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
