The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
We can replace the big monitors in hospitals with intelligent, disposable plasters that you throw away after wearing for a couple of days.
Sometimes you film in your hometown, sometimes you go halfway across the world.
The only time you actually are a spectator of your own work is the day you read the script.
A home is more than just where you live; it reflects who you are.
Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get.
You forget that sometimes people are out there to get you - they don't even have a reason.
If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
I think soccer is more respected now than it ever has been. You can see that in the numbers of young kids who are playing and the numbers of people who are coming to watch.
One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.
If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
In France we have a law which doesn't allow the press to publish a photo that you didn't approve. It lets the paparazzi take the picture, but if they publish this picture, you have the choice to sue the newspaper. So me, I always sued them.
You can always become better.
In terms of a narrative nonfiction book, when you're describing scenes that you have multiple sources for, and that you have differing sources for, and you decide to choose a path that puts all that information together, well yeah, there's definitely going to be a little bit of the author in that. But there's nothing wrong with that.
Jazz is a way of life, and you have to learn about it on the street, so to speak. But the training comes in by giving you the tools to work with.
Skating is tough to pick up when you are a grown up.
Once this old lady saw me in airport and just kept smiling at me, and after much hesitation, she came and asked me, 'Are you Ram? Can I touch your hair? Is it real?' and I happily obliged.
Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they don't apply to you.
Life is life. You have to learn how to forgive people and how to gain forgiveness for yourself.
You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that are successful.
My wife is the host of 'Big Brother.' Her name is Julie Chen, and she'll say, 'Da da da, but first we do this.' So they mashed together her saying 'but first' a couple dozen times. Literally. In different outfits. And when you cut it together like that, it appears very robotlike. They called her the Chenbot.
Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older.
Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.
If somebody had said to me in June or July of 1987, 'We'd like you to become chairman of the Federal Reserve, but you're never allowed to discuss any economics after you leave,' I'd have said, 'Forget it.' What do they want me to do? Become an anthropologist?'
From the first moment that I can remember, I had identified myself as a bass player and it had everything to do with my father, who was a bass player. And he loved music, you know, as much as anybody I've ever seen. And that dynamic I just thought as somehow was a straight pass to me.
Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain.
There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.
To have everything written for you... It's not really creating. That's why I think symphony drummers are so limited. They 're limited to exactly what was played a hundred years before them by a thousand other drummers.
I've never played a character where I've had so much fun on the physical end. I don't want to say I like it too much but it's fun having a gun on you and getting to manhandle men.
I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.
Michael Giles the first drummer of King Crimson, never agreed to the name King Crimson. But then, if you'd knew Michael, you would know he didn't agree to the album cover either. So maybe Michael didn't agree to the point of definition with many things.
I blame myself more so because I hung a curve. If you want to point a finger, point it at me.
If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.
You have to look at history as an evolution of society.
Life doesn't give you all the practice races you need.
