I am not a private person; you can ask those who hang out with me.
You can do irrefutably impossible things with the right amount of planning and support from intelligent and hardworking people and pizza.
The truth is, if you're lucky enough to work, you're a lucky actor.
Most human beings are quite likeable if you do not see too much of them.
And there's a feeling you get from making music that is unlike anything else in the world.
Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.
But once you become successful, everyone has an idea of what you should do.
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days.
In my view, if you want to get ahead and build wealth, you have to get over your delusion that something only has value if you can measure it.
My mission my whole career was just to be somebody that you can look at and say, 'That's the guy I want to go into battle with.'
When you get a chance to step back, you notice all these great things you've done and all these great people that you've worked with.
You don't implement change easily in Japan unless you explain very clearly why you need to do this change, how you're going to do this change and what's going to be the outcome of this change. If you offset or you forget to explain one of these three steps you're not going to do it.
You can see designers and fashion people bringing in older girls to do their shows - I'm not even afraid to say 'older.'
You can take wonderfully talented actors, wonderfully talented writers and producers, and, uh, do a wonderful show!... but if it doesn't hit with the public in two minutes, it's bye-bye.
Now, I'm the most impatient person that ever walked the planet. However: for the best, you always wait.
I have never done a package tour in my life. It appeals in a way, but then I remind myself that you can't control the other people with you, which could turn out to be ghastly.
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late.
Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys.
I think in some ways you learn more from the things you don't like than the things you do.
You can't raise the aspirations of a child and then leave them hanging. Poverty can't be solved by a project. It's solved by a relationship, collaboration.
Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum.
You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Think then you are Today what Yesterday you were - Tomorrow you shall not be less.
Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?
Writing is so fun precisely because if you take out the right adjective, the readers can decide what kind of book is in their hands. Suspension of disbelief should not be mandatory in contemporary writing.
You get thought of in terms of your last job. So if my last job is that of a meat cleaver-wielding character, I will hardly be cast as some benign, older gentleman.
When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home, the only thing you can control is how you respond publicly.
Training is such a vital part of preparation for a game, you really do train to play. It tops up your ability, like sharpening a carving knife. You can get away with not doing it for a while, as long as you have reached a certain standard of fitness.
Your name is a funny thing. It stands for what you're about, and everything I do is really about pride.
Do I want to be in St. Louis forever? Of course. People from other teams want to play in St. Louis, and they're jealous that we're in St. Louis because the fans are unbelievable. So why would you want to leave a place like St. Louis to go somewhere else and make $3 million or $4 more million a year? It's not about the money.
Don't let what you don't know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset. And if you do things without knowing how they have always been done, you're guaranteed to do them differently.
The great thing about doing art shows is you get to meet the people who are interested in your art, and I think that when you're purchasing a piece of art it's a tremendous bonus to get to meet the artist because you get a chance to pick their brain a bit and find out first hand what the piece is about for the artist.
I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.
There are a few really fantastic stories left, and that kind of gives you some inspiration to find even new ones.
Any time I wind up in the lane where you can't quickly turn off of it and it's turning into the freeway, I just start screaming until I'm off of it.
