If anyone tells you it's impossible to be fabulous and smart and make a ton of money using math, well, they can just get in line behind you - and kiss your math.
Writers displace their anxiety on to the tools of the trade. It's better to say that you haven't got the right pencil than to say you can't write, or to blame your computer for losing your chapter than face up to your feeling that it's better lost.
You can't be a real man if you don't look out for your kids. They need you.
It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all of your annoying habits are gone.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.
Being out in that heat for two weeks definitely drains your energy.
If you're an actress and even one person knows your name, you're lucky.
I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.
I just realized the best way to live your life is to just be you, as cliche as it sounds. I grew up trying to please everyone.
I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
It's a different mind-set going into the off-season as a starter. The uncertainty from the team is gone, and your confidence grows.
You kept quiet... When these victims wanted your help to survive, you kept quiet.
'Make your plate look like a Christmas tree,' I tell people, 'mostly green with splashes of other bright colors.'
There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes - seize it, don't miss it.
It's your glove, your baseball glove. It's got a soul, a memory all its own, and a future that never fades because it has never let go of the grasp the past has on you and so many others.
I think a lot of my fans are anxious for more than just my singles. They know I'm a dreamer. They know I'm someone who is real spiritual. I love to have fun, and I always have fun songs - songs you can party to. But I also always have songs you can live to, that when you're depressed, it may lift your spirits up.
I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and point it upwards, all the spit comes back into your mouth!
Your work is a separate thing from you. You are this person who has your friends and your life, and you have to see the separation. If you see the separation between your work and yourself it's so much easier.
All the managers in the world, it doesn't matter how good you are, if your players don't understand what you are looking for or what you want, it makes no sense.
In England, you're allowed to have an opinion - as long as it comes out of your mouth.
A lot of people give actors credit when they gain weight for a role in a drama when they win an Oscar, but when you're doing a sitcom, people don't give you a lot of credit, because you've got to keep your weight on for five or six years if it's successful.
Words have power, and if you are going to use your words negatively, then that is exactly what is going to happen in your life.
If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two blocks-but never three.
The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
When I first did 'The Fast and the Furious', I didn't want there to be a sequel on the first one. I thought, 'Why would you rush to do a sequel - just because your first film is successful?'
It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.
It's very common to implement mob grazing and double your production for a per-acre capitalisation investment... because it doesn't take any more corraling, no more electricity, rent, machinery or labour to double your production on an existing place.
When someone says to me, 'I love your book - I read it in a day,' I want to tell them to go back and read it again.
You can be in Ohio and shoot your own web series, if you want. If this had been around when I was in high school, I can guarantee you that my friends and I would have been shooting our own television shows and putting them online and trying to get as many hits as possible.
Confidence and belief in yourself and your vision is absolutely paramount. The fashion industry is tough - be prepared to take advice and criticism along the way, but have unwavering belief in your vision.
I think I learned years ago when I went to Hawaii that you don't bring puka shells back. You've got to be careful of your vacation purchases.
You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.
Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it's all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters.
