I was always looking at footage of dancers from Nicholas Brothers to Ralph Brown to Sand Man to Miller Brothers and Lois, and I grew up looking at old footage.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
I've always liked the fact that anyone with a great idea, access to the Internet, and an unrelenting will can spark a world-beating company simply by standing up code on the Internet and/or leveraging the information and relationship network that is the web. That's how Facebook started, after all.
One of the big mysteries about the black hole at the center of the galaxy is, 'Why don't we see emission from matter falling onto the black hole, or, rather, the black hole eating up its surroundings?'
I grew up in Manhattan, and now I live in Brooklyn.
Everything I need to know, I learned in Iowa. I grew up here in Iowa.
Growing up playing the drums, I idolised Questlove from an early age. 'Phrenology' was the first Roots record that I ever heard, and that was like my introduction to hip hop.
So many nights I'm up there on stage and I wish everybody out in the audience could see what I see and feel what I feel.
The world's made up of individuals who don't want to be heroes.
When I was growing up, I always knew I'd be in the top of my class in math, and that gave me a lot of self-confidence.
I grew up in a very traditional family, but there was never anything I didn't think I could do.
And when you see it the first time you put the film together, the roughest cut, is when you want to go home and open up your veins and get in a warm tub and just go away. And then it gradually, maybe, works its way back, somewhere toward that spot you were at before.
Non-fiction or documentaries can tell any kind of a story because they don't have to adhere to the rules of what's possible. When you're making something up, you have to say, 'Well, this is what would happen here,' but in reality, stuff happens that seems impossible.
The future is always coming up with surprises for us, and the best way to insulate yourself from these surprises is to diversify.
I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me.
Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped!
I grew up near the University of Michigan, so we'd sneak into college parties. That's where my acting started - lying about the professors I supposedly had and what I was studying.
Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do.
I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.
There is such an advantage to self-releasing. If you can do it yourself, it's the best way to go. In Europe and the rest of world outside the U.S., I have licensed my music to labels. But it's amazing because I still own all the masters. I didn't have to give up any of those rights. I have 100 percent creative control.
I just have this deep kind of connection to reality of being like... in a way, I feel like a dock worker. I want to stay in connection with my dock-worker side, 'cause that's how I grew up.
The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.
Once everyone else around you starts to become incredibly comfortable - if anything, quite happy with what you are doing - then I start to settling in and trusting all those choices that I've made up to that point.
My dad said to me growing up: 'When all is said and done, if you can count all your true friends on one hand, you're a lucky man.'
My younger brother Avishai was my first influence. He picked up the trumpet, and I listened to him. The way he played - with the half valves and the smears - made me want to play like him.
I was a huge Mike Tyson fan growing up; his fights were always on in my house.
As to the effect of the wave on the air, we will suppose the water to be quite flat and the air motionless, a heavy undulation comes on the scene, it has to pass, so it pushes the air up with its face, letting it fall again as its back glides onwards.
Republicans use think tanks to come up with a lot of their messages. The think tanks are the single worst, most undisciplined example of communication I've ever seen.
I realized that I've lived half my life already, and it's time to believe in - and stand up for - myself.
We all have an interest in making sure teens grow up healthy and drug-free.
I would love to walk into a mall and see more than two or three stores that cater to women who are a size 14 and up!
Passion and standing up for things can help create a sense of unity. But you still have to act a certain way.
I would not want to be called a feminist. The feminists don't believe in success for women and, of course, I believe that American women are the most fortunate people who ever lived on the face of the earth, can do anything they make up their minds to do.
Activism isn't about holding your faults up to the light. That's what comedy is about, it's about saying, 'Look at this person who is so flawed and frail and damaged. And we're all this frail and damaged so let's laugh at it.'
I love Fincher, as he has a great atmosphere and intensity. Also, I grew up watching Hitchcock movies, and there was something elegant in the way he plays with you and plays with the character and tricks you.
Acting for me is finding those things that, finding the strings of humanity that tie us all together. And you only find that by living life and loving and breaking up.
