Almost all the fans I meet are pretty cool people. They're intelligent and tend to think about things a bit more than your average rock'n'roll fans: sensible people I wouldn't mind having a drink with.
Just because people are in authority, if it doesn't seem right, don't do it. If it violates your own principles, don't do it.
I think a lot of people in their average day actually imagine two sides of a conversation at one point or another. I think that the mental trick of holding two sides of a conversation in your head is actually something that we all do.
So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal.
I belong in America more than South Africa. I can't remember the feeling of living there anymore. It's like it was in another life. That's sad in a way. It is my country. It's where I grew up. You don't know what it's like to have these negative feelings about your homeland. There are roots you can't escape.
There's not always going to be something out there for you, especially not a positive role, so once you get up there and start being well known, you can't just think projects will come to you. You have to start doing your own projects because if you don't, you'll miss out, and eventually your fame will be over.
Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
As an actor, you always think that whatever job you have is going to be your last. In some way, shape or form, you think you're going to screw it up and you're never going to work again.
You don't realize how much a part of your character is part of yourself until you are no longer playing that character.
If you cry over a guy, then your friends can't date him. It can't even be considered.
I'm always trying to slip out of those labels everyone tries to put round your neck. We all have multiple selves.
When you've done something for more than a third of your life, your whole adult life, and then all of a sudden you're going to have to switch off and say, 'No more,' you want to grasp as much of it and enjoy the last few years of it as much as you can. Because you can't get those years back.
The point of psychoanalysis is to really understand the roots of your behavior. Understand why you are doing the things you're doing - and connect your unconscious to your conscious.
To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.
Charm, I think, is education, really, no? I was educated to be nice to everybody. If you want to be rude and mean, I'm sure your life isn't that nice.
I'm not really into method acting - the way I was taught was the good old-fashioned British way of just doing your research and getting on with it.
Before I did 'How I Met Your Mother,' I was not considered a comedic actress.
As a makeup artist, I learned quickly that the color of your lips affects the way a lipstick looks. If you see your friend wearing a great color, don't assume it will be right for you.
Luck is going to play a huge part in your life.
As an adult (after college) and as an artist I thought about what was real, what sustained me - it was Christian Science. I was using that when I didn't know it. Saying yes to the Light and your better instinct.
Without a positive male role model in your life, it is extremely difficult to become a man who benefits his family and benefits society.
Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.
When your team drops out, you make the ABA look bad.
Cloud computing means you are doing your computing on somebody else's computer. Looking ahead a little, I firmly believe cloud - previously called grid computing - will become very widespread. It's much cheaper than buying your own computing infrastructure, or maybe you don't have the power to do what you want on your own computer.
You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.
You can sometimes get your own feelings across more strongly if you pretend that you're singing it from someone else's angle. But it's always from me. It's just a new way of framing it.
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.
There are so many roads you can take that will lead you the wrong way, that nobody will hear your name.
Situational unawareness in the private marketplace or on the battlefield will cost you your livelihood or your life. In the Age of Obama, however, such willful ignorance is a job prerequisite. The less you know the better.
Whatever your issue, your cause, the festering problem you thought would be resolved - the political class has failed you.
I also said, men are like curling irons, they never get out of your hair. And they are like government bonds, they take so long to mature.
You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.
As a songwriter, it's kind of hard to listen to your own stuff with clarity.
When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
The only way you can learn about making films is by making them, by putting your stamp on the thing.
