When you watch stuff that is YA, it looks like it's been made YA. It doesn't look real.
Some think that by preparing to deal with crises you make them more likely. I think the wiser judgment is the contrary. In this area at least, if you want peace or stability, it's better to prepare for war or instability.
To see me as a person on screen would be one of the dullest experiences you could ever wish to experience.
Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.
Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it.
You cannot have a society where you spend more than you earn. I mean, it's just fundamentally not viable in the long run.
It's jarring to go from one amazing experience to another that feels ordinary. I don't quite know how to explain it. You see the uniqueness of what you've been doing, and disassociating yourself from it and going back to the 'normal' life is tough.
I usually build my collections on colors and on staples, so when you buy pieces, you are really adding to your wardrobe, and you're getting a new color palette to play with. The clothes are timeless and modern at the same time.
Understanding history means knowing what motivates you.
At Leeds I've tried to concentrate on my club form, but you get caught up in all the World Cup fever once you come back to Ireland and see all the Irish boys again.
In the Marine Corps, I was used to people doing what they said and saying what they mean. There was a higher purpose and calling in the Corps. Everyone works toward accomplishing something together, and there's a common goal. In entertainment, the same isn't always true. You're in it for yourself in Hollywood.
The State of Israel is a state that was formed before the people were even in it. You have to understand: In India, in Burma, in Pakistan - all of the people were already there. Their problem was for the English to leave so they could be independent.
The fact that you can love something that's lost is all of the incentive that you'll ever need to love again as opposed to becoming comfortably numb.
The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.
It's not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It's who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military.
Nobody wants to pay higher taxes. But do you want your kids to get a good education? You have to pay for that. Do you want Medicare for senior citizens? I do. We have to pay for it.
The argument can be made: Maybe you want to trust the government, but you shouldn't because you don't know where things are going to go in the future.
You've got to love the villain if you have to play him. You've got to find something that you can live with in yourself if you're going to play the villain in a play on stage.
I'm not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy.
When you first start out, you are just happy to get a job, any job. And as time goes on, either you move forward or screech to a halt.
You in Lebanon, your power is no match to Israel. Israel, militarily, is more powerful than you and maybe it is more powerful than all the Arab countries, or most of them.
What's great about being a character actor is you know that you can survive forever. It's not about the gloss of your eyebrows.
Predators, they're the best coal miners' canary. When they're gone, you've got a sick ecosystem.
You never know, I might get back into coaching someday.
You look at the world around you, and you take it apart into all its components. Then you take some of those components, throw them away, and plug in different ones, start it up and see what happens.
No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it's not about the solvency of Social Security.
The Olympics are great for notoriety right off the bat, but your body of work is what people remember you for.
You've got to stay current and up with the competition. The main thing, though, is finding the greatest songs you can possibly find.
If you work with Jim Carrey, you're working with the best.
Making a movie is a network of decisions that keep multiplying as you go. You leave a trail of decisions behind you, and that's how you start to see the shape of what you've done. When you get far enough, you turn around and say, 'Ha, that's the movie.' It's only then that you find out if it's going to work or not.
If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers.
Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that's it. You're going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that's deep, deep, deep in there. Every step of the way.
When you lead a normal life, you aren't aware of how you affect people.
We've mastered the art of making pretty music that makes you want to die.
I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
Screenwriting is a much more collaborative effort. When you write a novel, it's just you, with input from your editor.
