Whether it's performing a concert with my quartet or sitting in with my peers, enjoying musical conversations at home with my brothers or hanging and playing choro with my friends - sharing moments in that bright space of music are the happiest times.
I've said this so many times but there's a magic when you have a really good actor in a really good makeup.
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
I love everyone that supports me, and things can get wild at times, but my parents raised me to be grounded and to always remain humble. I think that's one of the main reasons that my fans support me.
I care about being able to play. If you're playing with integrity in the music, then that's what matters. But it wasn't that great for me because it was kinda like going back into the old times without the guy.
How many times do I have to repeat this: my childhood was fantastic.
The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.
I'm just saying, and I'm going to say it enough times: I want to play Bernie Mac.
We are a challenger bank; let me say that once, twice, and three times if necessary because people still sometimes think of us as being very big.
One of my favorite times of year is around Christmas when my entire family gets together and we make tamales together. It's a full two-day event, and we create an assembly line. It's awesome because everyone has his or her own part in making the dish. It's so much fun.
I always knew that women, some women, at times find it very difficult to find music.
A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.
I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
I lost three times in my career. Losing to Holmes I could deal with, because I lost to a true champion.
Now, I've never hosted a reality TV show, but I know the true mark of a successful businessman is not the number of times you say, 'You're fired.' It's the number times you say, 'You're hired.'
J. K. Rowling's first 'Harry Potter' manuscript was rejected 12 times. Stephen King's 'Carrie' was rejected 30 times. 'Gone With The Wind' was rejected 38 times. I was immensely proud to have beaten them all.
Look, I don't even agree with myself at times.
If I get an obit in the Times, they will say, of course, known to millions as Rumpole.
In the polls, over 80% support the right to die and have done for the last 25 years. Even 80% of practising Catholics and Protestants support it, plus 76% of Church Times readers.
Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.
I think many times Christians don't really take the opportunity to hear what people are saying and seeing in the world around them.
I think I'd be a million times more successful and more iconic if I was a singer in the '40s. I'd be allowed a level of mystery, and I think I'd suit that decade.
The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred.
As an actor, some of my favorite things to work on are night exterior scenes. Any time that we're on location and shooting at night, it's just magic. I got to do that so many times working on 'Vampire Diaries' that it filled my hat.
So I've done my fair share of theater. I have also been very fortunate in that I've been able to come to New York two or three times a year just to see as many shows as possible. I think the live theater culture here is incredible.
But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person.
In the happy scenes there were really fun times. Sean would say really funny stuff because he likes to improv. I would want to laugh, but you are not allowed to do that during the take.
I'm not intimidated by lead roles. I'm better in them. I don't feel pressure. I feel released at times like that. That's what I'm born to do.
I'm not supposed to talk about the snail. The snail is, well, congratulations to whoever noticed it. It's supposed to be a thing where you gotta look for it in every episode, and it's there three times in every episode.
I know she would want me to still do what I'm doing, because she kept me going a lot of times when I'd almost lose interest in getting out on the road.
Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do.
As I've said many times and publicly, a war between China and Taiwan that involves the United States is a lose-lose-lose.
I'm such a lover of golf, and I've been at the Masters a couple times, and I've been so blessed to get to play there.
I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen.
I tend to hide behind my status of being a diva; it's easy for me to embrace that part of me and seek confidence by being a bit outrageous at times.
