I talked to ex-wives of musicians of the '70s for research. They're the funniest people in the world, yet there is this sad, beautiful thing in their eyes that says they've seen more than they could ever possibly tell you.
Luckily, I'm a governor - so I get to tell you what I've already done not just what I'm going to do.
I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page... sunrise over the desert and masses of... a whole essay before you get to the dialogue.
People don't know what it's like standing up there onstage, when you have a wall of people smiling at you.
A lot of people have helped me along the way. But you know the biggest thing for me was when computer animation came along.
Let me tell you about being executive producer. It is not a job, it's a title. Don't go around asking executive producers what they do because they don't do anything, alright?
Vietnam was the defining event for my generation. It spilled over into all facets of American life - into music, into the pulpits, in churches of our country. It spilled over into the city streets, police forces. And even if you were born late in the generation, Vietnam was still part of your childhood.
How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me, I was in.
You marry somebody; you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.
New York means so much to people. If you're inclined to leave the nest, New York is where most people think they have to go, and it's been that way since the first skyscraper.
My biggest point to everybody is you have a responsibility to build your own network.
An athletic man, or whatever you want to call him, will only look good in a very classic suit, a pair of classic jeans, athletic clothes or simply naked. Forget fashion. This is not going to happen, unless you want to look like a Chippendales dancer in designer clothes.
When you're dealing with serious subjects, there is a pressure to be absolutely sure that you know what you're doing.
I was in relays for track where you just bonded with all these different kinds of personalities who were coming together for this one common goal of beating a rival team.
Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
Love them for who they are, and what they are they are; they are not you. Good stuff, isn't it? You have to live 73 years to get that.
You can't chase everybody on the Internet who's saying stuff about you, that's for sure.
The best thing about switching from being an actor to being a director is that you don't have to shave or hold your stomach in anymore.
When I was going to school in, like, '84 to '88, you didn't have cell phones. There was no e-mail, if you can wrap your brain around that.
I want to speak up and tell you that mascara and clothes don't make you cool, neither do name-brand handbags, but being a leader can.
'Born this Way' is about being yourself, and loving who you are and being proud.
Follow your instincts and do not let other people's opinion of you become your opinion of yourself.
You know a good board when you see one.
It's important to understand that you have to dedicate time to your sponsors, to have relationships with the people and the media, but it is also hard when you are first coming up and your primary focus is on tennis.
These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed that one should forget about it as quickly as possible and pick up where you left off.
Are you gonna fuel your faith or fuel your fear? I'm all about fueling my faith, especially when it's hard to do so.
If it is warming, it's because it's happened before, cyclitic, it will happen again, regardless of what you and I do.
A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.
Everything starts with yourself, with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend.
As soon as I gave birth, it was as if you understand them. They become people, not kids. You start to identify with them. You see yourself in them.
I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the last chapter.
One thing you don't want to do as a host is be running around all evening. Do as much as you can ahead of time, so all you have to do is grill the main ingredients.
It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.
And I think because of the passion of every English player and every English supporter, and every English journalist for the game, most of the game is played with passion, love for football and instinct, but in football you also have to think.
I know I have this level of celebrity, of fame, international, national, whatever you want to call it, but it's a pretty surreal thing to think sometimes that you're in the middle of another famous person's life and you think to yourself, 'How the hell did I get famous? What is this some weird club that we're in?'
Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.
