What's great about acting is you can let all your wackiness hang out while you work.
Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.
Shouldn't a three-course meal be 90 minutes? Do you know how hard you have to edit your menu to pull that off? Twenty-seven minutes. That's the average meal at Jiro's in Tokyo.
You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.
Our intent with Led Zeppelin was not to get caught up in the singles' market, but to make albums where you could really flex your muscles - your musical intellect, if you like - and challenge yourself.
If there's no craft there, then once the looks go, there goes your career.
It's hard when you put a year of good work into something and someone at the top says no, and they pull your show's title off a bulletin board and chuck it in the trash.
QQ is not secure. You might as well be sharing your information with the Public Security Bureau.
And an integrated life is one where you're able to fit the different pieces of your life together in seamless fashion.
The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that.
If you need to take a step back from day-to-day operations and plot out the long-term direction of your user experience strategy, consultants can give you a perspective you can't get on your own.
You who live your lives in cities or among peaceful ways cannot always tell whether your friends are the kind who would go through fire for you. But on the Plains one's friends have an opportunity to prove their mettle.
It takes a certain type of man to become a boxer, to fight for a living. To be able to have the confidence to hit another man, to control your fears. You must overcome the psychical aspect and believe in the art, the discipline of the sport. You need to study. You need to be smart.
The only people that you really have, that I learned, are your family, because they love you no matter what.
Simply by starting to cook again, you declare your independence from the culture of fast food. As soon as you cook, you start thinking about ingredients. You start thinking about plants and animals and not the microwave. And you will find that your diet, just by that one simple act, that is greatly improved.
LA can be a very open and accepting creative environment. But it is important, because there is this odd separation here, it is important to make your kids mindful of other people and other people's plight.
If you're nervous, that means you care and you want to give your best.
There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
As an athlete, the most important thing is the protein that you eat and the things that you put into your body. Without that, it's very hard to function throughout the day.
I would say being deeply involved in the art world would help keep a young artist on track. Doing what you love, so that your focus is your artistry.
You can't act alone. Use the props, the setting, the crew around you, and of course, your fellow actors.
I climbed brick facades as a kid. You'd kind of stick your fingers in there.
Nobody asked you to flip burgers for the rest of your life.
What's increasingly clear is that when you are open to a discussion of leadership, and you're relating it to your company, it is much easier to get people to become open.
One interviewer asked me: 'How do you feel that you've betrayed your father?' That wasn't really very cool.
People are out of their home on a Saturday night or they're at the movies or they're at dinner and a lot of the people who flip on the television are doing just that. They may have never seen your show before and you can't count on to your audience to be there week in and week out.
Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important.
It's ironic, but until you can free those final monsters within the jungle of yourself, your life, your soul is up for grabs.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own.
I watch the news, which is its own reality show. I love 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I love it because it's funny and because I realize that I'm happier than Larry David.
My father taught me that you have to stand by your principles.
I've always thrown myself into different kinds of experiences, sometimes into really bad things. But, you grow up. You become more of a woman and you know yourself. I think knowing yourself is a wonderful thing especially when you're in your 40s and you're kind of in your skin. Life is not so confusing anymore.
I have a motto on my bedroom wall: 'Obstacles are what you see when you take your eye off the goal.' Giving up is not my style. I just want to do something that's worthwhile.
Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
If you can't figure out how to make the beginning of your book compelling, you're probably not writing a compelling book.
