I enjoyed being in movies when I was a boy. As a child you're not acting - you believe.
You have to create your own stuff. It's really exciting to create something, sell it, and feel like I'm not just a pawn waiting to be cast.
I keep a lot of my old baseball hats, and if you look in the hats I've had since I started pitching, you'll see 'Philippians 4:13' written on the brim. That's the Scripture that gets me through the day because sometimes you can't do it all by yourself. You can't do it on your own, so you lean on Him.
It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
I talk to God every single day. And I say, 'God, my life is in your hands, and I trust you with me.'
Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.
I tell people all the time, as I was going through my process of being a comedian or being an actor and a writer at 'SNL,' I tell people that everything you do is all a piece of your puzzle to determine where you're going to end up at.
I think that you always have something left, that you take something of the character with you.
I feel like it's a dangerous and dark world if 'Sunny' becomes mainstream comedy. If you were to turn on CBS at 8 o'clock on Thursday and see an episode of 'It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia,' I don't know if I want to live in that world.
Moms that get evicted are depressed and have higher rates of depressive symptoms two years later. That has to affect their interactions with their kids and their sense of happiness. You add all that together, and it's just really obvious to me that eviction is a cause, not just a condition, of poverty.
You can't make someone learn something - you really can't teach someone something - they have to want to learn it. And if they want to learn, they will.
Everyone keeps asking me, What are you doing? I say, Why do I need to do anything? I'm rich.
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
The basis of the free market is anytime you can generate revenue or profit, you've created value in excess of the resources you consume in a society. That's probably the most unbiased utility function there is, as opposed to someone's opinion.
When you're younger, being a redhead is... Well, my two brothers teased me no end.
People don't understand that when you come into any theatrical experience, you've got to come locked and loaded, that you're a part of the experience, too. You can't come with your arms crossed. Be open to it.
And truly, when you look at the Constitution and our founding fathers and their writings, the things that made this country great, you might draw those conclusions: That they were conservative. They were fiscally conservative and socially conservative.
Three hundred words in a day is not a lot. So much of it is thinking before writing. And then there's the cutting. But you do what you do and keep moving forward.
In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you.
I got a lot of energy from directing the film 'Ladies In Lavender.' You wonder if you have the stamina because as an actor you can lounge around the trailer during the scenes you're not in, but as a director, you're there from first thing in the morning to last thing at night every day of the week. I found it incredibly energising.
Many people think that it is important to have a title before you begin writing the book, but I think you should never sit around waiting for the right title to strike before you start writing. Crack on with the story, put in the hard work, and the title will come eventually.
It doesn't matter how your child comes to you. I've never felt such joy and such love. It's the most beautiful delicious little thing.
I had done another show called 'United States of Cars,' which was a pilot that didn't get picked up. And they said, 'You know, we're doing 'Top Gear,' and would you like to meet the guys?' It was the wild - most wild audition I ever had because I never went to a studio or a producer's office.
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
It's never over. You don't want to be in the position to be down four runs in the ninth inning, but it's not over until the last out.
I don't really like to call myself a brand, and I don't like to think of myself as a brand. I'm a singer, a songwriter, a musician and a performer. And an actress, and all the other things that I do. When you add it all together, some might call it a brand, but that's not my focus.
My father in the film - which we probably haven't seen in previous movies, and in British Asian movies you could probably count on one hand - he says exactly why, actually why he's frightened for his daughter. He came to this country, England, and had a bit of a crappy time.
I feel like the word 'mom' and 'supermom' should be synonymous. When you are a mom, you are a superhero.
Once you're signed to a label you compromise.
I think the best people are the ones who are just as nice and fun. This is really cheesy, but you only have one life - why spend most of it pretending to be cool?
My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way.
It's like a badge of honour if you're a British actor and you get the 'Harry Potter' call. It meant a lot to me.
You'd just die if you put your head to the grindstone.
You will see the President being very, very tough on spending.
You can't keep changing men, so you settle for changing your lipstick.
