Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.
Treat your life like something to be sculpted.
Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, Smiles awake you when you rise.
Humility is becoming a lost art, but it's not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success.
Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.
I'm not really getting too involved. My position is, Here's the record. I'm at your disposal.
So if diva means giving your best, then yes, I guess I am a diva.
Look at your business and the activities that you undertake. Then, start to think about not just your economic concerns, but about social and environmental impacts that businesses have.
One of the great difficulties as you rise up through an organisation is that your prior competencies are exploded and broken apart by the territory you've been promoted into: the field of human identity.
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.
Mother's Day is a torment if your mother is dead. Valentine's Day is a torment if you don't got one. And at some point in our lives, we will be tormented by Valentine's Day even if we're relatively lucky in love.
Before, I guess, mum and dad were everything, but now, in my case, I had two new girls and all of a sudden they're completely dependent on you and there's a third generation. It's a funny shift all of a sudden. You have the babies, you have yourself and then you have your parents.
As an assistant coach, the wins and losses don't tally up on your record, so you don't necessarily have that to fall back on, so you have to find smaller games within the bigger picture to play in order to get your victories.
The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing.
Life is a glass of wine and having your feet washed - it's a biblical event, might I add. This is part of mankind's story. You are always looking for a moment to take a break.
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
It's hard to think of anything that is more socially beneficial than raising children well. It needs to be valued and respected, I believe by everyone in public life regardless of your political party.
You should take some responsibility for the way you present yourself. But you should not be hung up on your looks, whether you are ugly or handsome, because it isn't an achievement.
In order to survive in a very small tribe, you needed to know how to do lots of things for yourself: how to make your tools, how to get food, and how to make your clothes - things most of us today don't need to know. The only thing I need to survive is to know history.
Your baby only needs a lot of light at night if he's reading or he's entertaining guests.
Personally, I feel that if you shoot off 200,000 rounds, and your lead character pulls out a pistol and never gets hit, there's a sense of jeopardy that's lost. It becomes a little less exciting when things don't make sense.
A lot of people ask me, 'What is your goal now that you have done everything?' And I always say that my goal is to not be bored by what I do. The only way that I cannot be bored by what I do is if I play something and it's all new to me.
Make people have a smile when they finish your e-mail.
The skating community is very fickle. And with me, they're especially fickle for whatever reason. Maybe I bring it on myself, but if you don't prove yourself and you don't skate consistently, then they can very easily write you off and bring somebody from behind you and put them in your place.
You don't run from the bad things in life; learn from them, because your worst is what will lead you to your best.
It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.
Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.
You change your life by changing your heart.
Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.
It is so discouraging to have your weight yo-yo.
I think families are so great, because when you go home, no matter what you've accomplished in your life, you still are the person you were in sixth grade to them. You know, it never really changes.
In your mid-twenties, the paint is still wet on who you are.
Otherwise, to be a movie star, it's a lot of compromise and also a lot of headaches. You can't do what you want. You become a prisoner of your fame. This happened to me in France and I don't want it.
I mean, no one asks beauty secrets of me, or 'What size do you wear?' or 'Who's your couturier?' They ask me about really deep things and I love that.
A large family makes you accept sharing your parents.