You don't go to Palm Springs in the summer unless you're building a golf course.
Acting is all about relating to the people on stage with you, even in plays that break the fourth wall. Clowning, for the most part, is the opposite. If somebody in the audience sneezes, I can count on it: I don't even have to look at Shiner; he'll have his handkerchief out. It's all about all of us in the room together.
There are certain economics involved in making a network TV show that you want to amortize the costs of that, so the more episodes you make, the cheaper they all are individually.
Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band.
Whereas with us - what you hear is what's happening right then and there on the stage - so we don't need no stinking technology.
You can't live in New York City and be the most important person in town; you just can't. There are too many other important people here.
To express to you in mere words, our personal feelings on this occasion you must know to be impossible, and particularly so for one who normally has to describe only things outside himself.
If you care enough, you make a difference.
I've always just given myself to the band, if you know what I mean, and been busy with that.
When you put your total faith in God, no matter what happens, to a person who's a true believer, if you die, you know you're going to heaven to be with God.
I try to stay ahead of things, if you know what I mean. I take the money I make and reinvest it.
Faith is my foundation because you work on a faith basis that you believe God has his hand on you.
When you're putting good stuff into your body, you feel so much better.
You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.
There is no such thing as Russian fascism. You won't find a single Russian who considers Russians to be a superior race and who advocate expulsion of aliens.
Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
But I think Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang really got that thing where, if a movie reads really funny and then has some dramatic or violent or sinister stuff in it, you can't forget that primarily it has to be even funnier than you read it or that other stuff doesn't work.
If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake.
You are responsible to each other because when you win a game of football, you only need eight players to perform well.
A boatload of government money is indeed a gift. Unless, I suppose, you're one of the saps paying for the cargo.
It's a tough thing to know that when you're making your album, you're going to end up collaborating with, say, Wal-Mart, on your artwork. That just sucks. And the pressure behind getting the numbers real fast is, to me, dizzying.
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.
Oh, Mr Coward, sir - I could never have an affair with you, because you remind me of my father!
It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else.
How do you take what you do as seriously as possible but not so seriously that it ends up inhibiting what you do?
If you were ever to interview me after a football game or at a football game or around me during football season is totally different than when you catch me away from football.
All of the films that I've made are about the country I live in and grew up in... And I think if you're going to put an artist's eye to it, you're going to put a critical eye to it. I've always been interested in the gray area that exists between the black and white, or the red and blue, and that's where complexity lies.
If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.
If a portion of a redwood is rotting, the redwood will send roots into its own form and draw nutrients out of itself as it falls apart. If we had redwood-like biology, if we got a touch of gangrene in our arm, then we could just, you know, extract the nutrients and the moisture out of it until it fell off.
When I'm in Los Angeles, sometimes I hesitate saying that I'm an actor because people are like, 'Of course you are.' And I'm like 'No,' not, 'Of course I am.' In L.A., being an actor is like a pastime: everybody there is like, 'I was on this reality show; I'm an actor.' It becomes a word that is loosely thrown around.
If you aren't going to make your revenue plan, it's unlikely you'll make your EBITDA or Net Income plan. You don't even have to get complicated and look at Gross Margin or more derivative metrics - if you are off in Q1 and have any sort of growth expectations , you are going to miss for the year.
Certainly accountability of government is what people are clamoring for; they want to know that when lawmakers make a promise or a proposal, you can actually accomplish it.
I'm not trying to pull the rug out from under anybody, but the music really does tell you where to go.
Dream on it. Let your mind take you to places you would like to go, and then think about it and plan it and celebrate the possibilities. And don't listen to anyone who doesn't know how to dream.
You can express a lot of things, a lot of action without speaking.
I apologize to those of you I offended for coming out against the Ex-Im Bank. I'm not changing my mind on it, but I just wanted to let you know I apologize for that.
