You just have to play the character.
Selling eight million copies of your first album will mess you up.
You would think, in an ideal world, that if you were in a really good film and did a really good job, whether it was a big film or not, you would get hired a lot; but that is not my experience.
People say sometimes, gosh, that was brave of you to write such-and-such last week. 'Brave?' What do they mean 'brave?' It's right! How could you not write it?
It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.
If you want to send a message, try Western Union.
Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you'll discover the creativity that connects you with others.
A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
Style has replaced elegance. Before, I believed that style is something a person embodied. But now it's so easy to buy good style if you have the money.
After I did Untamed Heart I wanted to do a film that was outrageous. I really wanted to do, you know, a performance. I don't want to allow my image to rule the choices that I make.
Never get into an argument with a schizophrenic person and say, 'Who do you think you are?'
If you hide information from people, don't want people to see the Ten Commandments or don't want people to hear about Darwin, aren't we hiding things that we know from our future generations? I just think that that's incorrect.
I'll tell you why, I don't invite the ones I don't like.
You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people.
You've got to be able to make animation for much less... Less is not the studio's way.
I think it's very, very hard not to go slightly crazy if you're in the top in politics - especially if you're there for a long time.
I loved the music, but the excesses of rock n' roll never really appealed to me at all. I couldn't see the point of getting up in front of a lot of people when you weren't in control of your wits.
Presentation skills are key. People who work for you represent your brand. You want them to present themselves - and represent you - in a certain way.
You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.
I don't want to get too detailed into it, but when you're a good high school running back, you can almost be whatever type of runner you want to be. If you're a good size and a good athlete, you can be whatever type of runner you want.
It doesn't matter what you believe just so long as you're sincere.
You can't please everyone... If you make a good movie, that's all that matters.
Maybe a thing that you do not like is really in your interest. It is possible that a thing that you may desire may be against your interest.
I believe that if you want to be president of the United States, you run for president. You don't run for president with some eject button in the cockpit that allows you to go on an exit ramp if it doesn't work out.
When you are writing and directing and producing, there is a lot of stuff to do. I like to finish one; then while I am editing, I will think of the next one.
I guess it comes back to the old motto, you have you're fifteen minutes a fame.
I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience.
As you grow up and get educated in the business, you go from, 'I want to do movies' to 'I want to work. In whatever.'
Things happen every day. You can't spend your whole life trying to guard against something happening. If you do that, in my opinion, you've wasted your life.
I do know one thing: I wish people were doing more dangerous musicals, more courageous musicals and not just falling into the trap of trying to figure out what the public wants, because you find out that the public very often wants what's good.
I think, you know, when you're an actor who's had periods of unemployment, it makes you feel really good to have a job - to say that you're expected somewhere, do you know what I mean?
Being compared to Ian Thorpe, that could be one of the greatest compliments you could ever get in swimming - being compared to him and Mark Spitz.
I think understanding is the way to gain perspective - and therefore can live among those hideous realities. You can live with them.
The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.
The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.
It's very easy to make certain decisions that affect your life that you have no perspective on.
