I have a friend who says that roles choose you at the time that you need them most, and you have to believe, as an actor, if you didn't get a part that you really, really wanted, and it went to someone else, it was because it was theirs to begin with.
Political life is like this - elections go back and forth. Representative democracy can only be successful if one sits down and says, 'That's it. I will connect myself,' - as I did - 'connect my existence to a political project.' Then you automatically have in your party a lot of people who say, 'If that fails, so do I'.
If somebody says that they want to write a book but do not know what to write about, they will never write a book.
Whoever says he is starting from a given in nature may be right, and so is he who says he is starting from nothing!
When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.
I'd love to have a hit record. I don't believe anyone that says they wouldn't like that.
I will always speak out when someone says that a principle or a rule or a tradition trumps people.
There's a guy at the record company who's 30, and he says, I would not listen to these songs except in this context. Somehow the recording process, the arrangements, make it more accessible.
In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.
'Work and wait', 'work and wait' is what God says to us in creation.
The IRS issued guidance for virtual currencies on March 25, 2014 that stated virtual currencies, including Bitcoin, are to be treated as property for federal tax purposes. This requires capital gains on virtual currencies to be recorded and reported. The Bitcoin Foundation says this could lead to unrealistic reporting.
The Bible says that God has a reason for keeping us here; if He didn't, He would take us to Heaven far sooner.
I couldn't have accomplished the things in my career if I didn't practice, and the worst part about that whole thing is when a kid comes up to me and says 'Allen, I don't like practice, either.' I've got to straighten that kid right then.
Everyone says I'm like the girl next door... Y'all must have really weird neighbors!
So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me 'Can you give me a lift?' I said 'Sure, you look great, the world's your oyster, go for it.'
I don't sleep much. I'm on the go. My mind is racing. My wife says my mind is like the rolling dials on a slot machine. So, yeah, I think about everything.
Barack Obama says that we need to be humble toward terrorism. Yet he is the one we have been waiting for. That is humble?
Sharon Stone has made a fortune from her movies, so who says you can't get something for nothing?
Everyone always says the middle child is the worst or whatever - what do they say? That everyone forgets about them? But that's not true. That's not true in my family.
For every person that says I'm the new Audrey Hepburn, someone else says that I look like an alien.
The Dominican Republic says 'We're black behind the ears.' And in Mexico, 'there's a black grandma in the closet.' They know, they've just been intermarrying for a long time. But if we did the DNA of everyone in Mexico a whole lot of people would have a whole lot of black in them.
But I still do believe that there are useful things to say about Elvis Presley, including what his own ordinariness as a poor Southerner says about 20th-century hero-making.
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'
The first bill that President Obama signed into law was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. I think it says something about his priorities that the first bill he put his name on has my name on it too. As he said that day with me by his side, 'Making our economy work means making sure it works for everyone.'
I'm terrified about the day that I enter the gates of heaven and God says to me, just a minute.
The poet's perfect expression is the token of a perfect experience; what he says in the best possible way he has felt in the best possible way, that is, completely.
If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies.
I have had to make a decision I may not agree with, but I am required to follow the letter of the law. It is not my job to think what is best... My responsibility is to decide what the law says and to decide to the law.
Everyone in the tech business, from Kleiner Perkins venture capitalist John Doerr on down, says that the ruination of the industry, if not the entire country, will come from the inability to hire more brainiacs from countries like China and India.
Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.
Some people seem to think their oven self-cleans, but you need to clean it to stop things getting blocked up so you get a good rotation of air and heat inside. Get a probe to test the oven is reaching what it says it's reaching too.
They say that I'm stubborn, and my wife says that, too, but it's paid off so far.
Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier.
To tell you the truth, my father says I came out of the womb literally singing and dancing, as though there was a spotlight on me. When I ask what I was like when I was little, they just say 'loud.'
