I'll be a flop in movies. Besides, I don't like 'em, and I never did believe there was a place called Hollywood. Somebody made it up!
I've never had a relationship with a record executive. I always went to the record company by someone that liked my playing. Then they would get fired, and I'd be left with the record company. And then - because they got fired - the record company wouldn't do anything for me.
I thought that my movie career was finished. I was quite happy to dedicate myself 100% to the theater. Surprisingly enough, I've never gotten so many work offers. It's so exciting, this feeling of a new beginning after 40.
I always hated how I looked on camera. I never put a face to my music, which actually made the music that much more mysterious.
Seersucker and khaki suits are the key to looking put-together in the summer. I also wear shorts year-round. And I would never say never, but I don't wear sandals. With shorts, it's wing tips and tennis socks.
Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them.
I think I owe thanks to the people who have listened to me over the years, who tuned in on the radio. They have given me a warmth and loyalty that I've never been able to repay. The way they have reached out to me has certainly been the highlight of my life.
I grew up always wanting to be a part of 'Idol,' and I never thought I would make it as far as I did. I was really lucky, and it's given me the opportunities that I have now.
There is a plethora of topics to explore. I sometimes think I may never live long enough to explore all of the unique story lines I have either in my head or waiting in my computer file.
I think because of my background - I went through university and did an academic career and fell into acting - I've never had a game plan for my career because I got into it quite ad hoc.
I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?
I will never shave off my beard and moustache. I did once, for charity, but my wife said, 'Good grief, how awful, you look like an American car with all the chrome removed.'
I never played sports. I wasn't any good at them.
I have a sense of being at peace. I understand when you give the sign of peace, and when the priest says, 'Peace be with you,' in a way I never did 10 or 15 years ago. I have a deep personal sense of what that means.
It's part of the celebrity process but my life has never been as interesting or as wild as what's been printed about me.
I never slept outside of my home.
I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting.
I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure.
Knowing what I'll write about and what I won't has never really been a problem. I won't write about things that bore me.
Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.
When I was doing 'Smile,' I was looking back at pictures of myself and going, 'Thank goodness I couldn't do the sprayed-bangs thing! Everybody's so embarrassed by that hairstyle now, but I was never cool enough to pull it off!'
I grew up watching period dramas, as we all did in the 1980s and '90s - endless adaptations of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens - and I loved them. But I never saw anyone like me in them, so I decided to find a story to erode the excuses for me not doing one.
One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.
Because of my Buddhist practice, I'm never lacking for inspiration.
I have never refused to talk to any authorities or give them any information I had.
I have never been a professional model; I have had some modeling sessions.
Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.
If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you're criticizing God.
I noticed there were so many people, especially women, who would come up to me having recognized me from TV and say, 'I heard you were a math person, why math? Oh my gosh, I could never do math!' I could just see their self-esteem crumbling; I thought that was silly, so I wanted to make math more friendly and accessible.
I liked the idea of being from 'somewhere else.' I do think that's inherited. My father never had a fixed sense of where home was, and for my sister and me, it is much easier not to belong than to belong.
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
I never regretted what I turned down.
We never got on a big, big tour, but we did a lot of spot dates.
Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I'm put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going to sit on a shelf and never get better.
I never fully understand all the drama and machinations within the Eagles.
Love means never having to say you're a zero.
