I'd sing with Roberta Flack in a taxi if you called up and said she'd be in it.
Hugh Jackman really inspired me as a kid. He's a cool Aussie guy who works very hard, and he's a fantastic actor. Obviously, he keeps really fit. He seems like he's happy acting. Who knows if he really is, but he gives you that impression.
Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this.
If you want to call me names, make jokes and doubt my intentions, go ahead, because the reality is I can take it.
Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.
I don't want to do things because it will please other people. I'm not doing this to get fame or any attention. I try to be selective about who I get advice from. I would like to contribute to the art world, but, you know, you can't plan these things.
We've all been there, right? When you meet someone personally and then you find yourself working with them professionally, it's awkward.
I don't see me doing $100 million films because $100 million films, the very nature of them, you need to offend as few people as possible just to make your money back.
I've gone from, you know, being too close to politicians, to being too close to entertainers, and people's father that I'm not.
Growth-hacking is about scalability - ideally, you want your marketing efforts to bring in users, which then bring in more users.
If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
To be a good hitter you've got to do one thing - get a good ball to hit.
If you knew you could change your lifestyle and diet and avoid heart disease and other things, you should do it.
I get readings, I sometimes get five a week. You'll feel like a schizophrenic by the end of that week. I don't know who I am any more. You'll be in conversation with a friend and start spitting out dialogue.
People who work on the user interface side need to have empathy as a key characteristic. But if you are writing device drivers you don't really need to understand humans so well.
I think by embracing your heritage and your history, it just serves you so much more, and you become a deeper and more powerful person by embracing them.
I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.
Any time you can get a muscle car back, it's a good thing.
I believe if religion brings you to a sense of peace, that's beautiful. But I also believe if religion's not your thing, that's fine, too, just so long as you're a good person and you find that one thing that leads you to peace and teaches you to have harmony with yourself and other people around you.
It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.
Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.
I make some of my best recipes with a simple homemade stock. Keep shrimp shells stored in a plastic bag in the freezer. When you have almost a gallon-bag full, you can make a stock in 30 minutes that you can use in soups and sauces. You can then freeze the stock in ice-cube trays.
I always say to young people when they ask me how I work, I always say to them, the only time you've ever going to do something good is if you have a good client. And by good I mean all kinds of things.
If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it.
Celebrity culture, it's everywhere, isn't it? It's reality TV, Big Brother. I didn't become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn't want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day?
But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.
If it's digital, it will be cognitive. If you think that, you're going to change the way you run a business.
And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment.
It's those moments, those odd moments that you look for and sometimes by creating this kind of loose atmosphere you find those little moments that somehow mean a lot to an audience when they really register right.
I think there is more pressure at trials when you are trying to make the team and you have to come first or second, and you have to go under qualifying time.
I'm not a big fan of the gym, I do lots of outdoor aerobics - yoga, swimming, running - but I kinda hate talking about it. We have a term in Australia, it makes you sound like a wanker.
I've learned the lesson that when you're in the middle of something that seems overwhelming, or you're in a bad situation and it seems like it's the end of the world or whatever, then you learn that it's not.
The satisfaction you get when you finally beat your dad is amazing, that rush of adrenaline.
Every audition is different, but I get incredibly nervous and insecure and worked up for however long I have to prep - that's when I get to spin. But you're not allowed to spin once you enter the room. Doubt really can't enter the room when you're auditioning - unless it's part of the character.
I want to go behind the scenes as well as on screen. I think you have to make your own destiny in this world.
I think anyone can fall in love, if you're open and you're willing, but the real test is sustaining it after all the excitement has worn off.
