If you have ever been in a real tragic or sad situation, the words that come out are hopelessly inadequate and kind of cliched.
That's the $64,000 question. And I would love to tell you there was an answer.
The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed.
The cynicism that you have is not your real soul.
You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.
People never believe you.
You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.
I think if you exercise, your state of mind - my state of mind - is usually more at ease, ready for more mental challenges. Once I get the physical stuff out of the way it always seems like I have more calmness and better self-esteem.
I thought, from watching TV and stuff, that America was one place. They only show you L.A. and New York. They don't warn you about Iowa.
There's something very scary about exposing yourself on camera, knowing that you're going to be put on thousands of screens around the world for everyone to judge, but there's also something very thrilling and exciting about it.
You can get insular with fashion.
Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.
When you are very little tennis should be fun, it should be a game.
Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
The shift for me, after spending a long time trying to take existing projects and bring them to fruition as a director for hire, is going back to where I started as a self-generating director. After trying and failing to get so many things made, I have decided that you've just got to do something you really, really love.
Laughing and crying are very similar. They're an extreme response to life. You see it in children who start laughing hysterically.
There's a line I have that our family was designed more for public than for private. But there are definitely some things that are only mine. I am someone who dreams at night, and you don't know what I'm dreaming.
I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.
I go with the flow. Whatever music you play for me, I'll dance.
A car to pick me up every day, a chair with my name on it, everybody being very polite... what can you do except sit back and watch it all, try to take it all in?
When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.
Being on the stage in New York is always exciting because you feel like you're part of the life of the city.
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'
I'm interested in what bonds people together. You know, what brings us together in good ways? And there's not a lot known about that.
What you want is for music to love you back. That's why you pay your dues. You want to feel like you belong and are part of this symbiosis, metamorphosis, whatever you want to call it.
If somebody's pointing a trembling finger at your pants and saying you shouldn't be doing that, follow that finger back, go up the arm and look at the head that's behind it, because there's almost always something fairly woolly in there.
Your spirit is your spirit, whether you're religious or whatever.
When you do take the home pregnancy test, it doesn't quite seem real. But when you see the baby and the heartbeat on the ultrasound, it's so incredible.
It's an incredible thing when you are creating something in a moment with the other people on stage and with an audience, and you are all experiencing it together as it exists in that one night. It's a magical feeling.
In preseason camp, there are no friends. when newcomers arrive trying to take not only your job, but maybe your best friend's job, you work together to try to help each other. Everyone is an outsider until you're given a uniform.
You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally - your ears will know.
The great thing about baseball is when you're done, you'll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask me about 1989, I'll tell them I had amnesia.
So many people I know are like, 'Nobody listens to Mumford and Sons anymore.' But you know what? I love Mumford and Sons. And I will listen to those albums, and I love 'em.
One lapse of judgment can cost and talent isn't everything. A huge slice of good fortune in needed to make it to the top, and without that element of luck, you've no chance.
When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.
