If you can't make 40% on your money in Russia, you're a fool.
I can honestly say this industry hasn't made me neurotic about my looks, except maybe my weight. I hope my clothes kind of reflect that. They're meant to make you feel good.
I would go visit my mom on Sundays, and my brother was working on stuff. I'd go in there and sing a little melody, then we started working with words and the next thing you know it was just born organically without really trying.
I always tell people I want to live to be 150 and they say why would you want to do that. I say, well there's a few people I haven't made mad yet, I want to get them.
All movies aren't fun; some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some real life kind of stuff.
One of the things that I love to do is travel around the world and look at archaeological sites. Because archaeology gives us an opportunity to study past civilizations, and see where they succeeded and where they failed. Use science to, you know, work backwards and say, 'Well, really, what were they thinking?'
After the $700 billion bailout, the trillion-dollar stimulus, and the massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks, many of you implored Washington to please stop spending money we don't have. But, instead of cutting, we saw an unprecedented explosion of government spending and debt, unlike anything we have seen in the history of our country.
As an actor, it's very rare that you get a choice in a matter. But you're always looking for something that has some gravitas.
I don't believe you can say 'forever'; I don't believe it exists.
It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?
If you start believing all that press about you, you're in trouble. I don't even read my reviews.
When you think of Missy, you can't say, 'Missy reminded me of someone else.' There was no Missy comparison before.
How do I know why Miles walks off the stage? Why don't you ask him? And besides, maybe we'd all like to be like Miles, and just haven't got the guts.
Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into space, and you have to pay by the pound to put things there.
The way you personally communicate is 90 per cent of how you will be evaluated by any future employer.
I think each role takes a little from you and circles around you for the rest of your life. I don't think you ever abandon any of them.
It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.
Sometimes, when the material is really good, you put expectations on yourself to make it the best possible show. You're not just serving up the regular hash and doing your job and going home.
I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're screwed'.
My skirt fell off on stage during a performance of Hairspray on Broadway, revealing my fat suit over my own natural fat suit. I turned to the audience and said, 'Now you know why I spent six years in a square.'
You may think of me as an object of desire and I'm going to tell you that I can be in front of you naked and not be erotic.
If you don't spend the time you need on developing characters and finding stories, complicated stories, the audience gets tired because they think they're seeing the same thing again and again.
I moved to L.A., because that's where they point cameras at you. And that's what I'd like them to do.
When you get married you forget about kissing other women.
When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.
It's all about being comfortable, forgetting there's a microphone in front of you.
I always wanted to understand the causes of happiness. I'm a bit of a scientist, I guess you could say.
How are we doing in the electronics field as opposed to, you know, we hear how advanced the Japanese are? Do you think we're still pretty competitive? Oh, yes.
If you've attended the Cordon Bleu, you would know that no woman is supposed to be a chef - only men.
The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.
It's such a psychological and mental game, golf, that the smallest wrong thing at the wrong time can distract you from what you're trying to achieve.
The contracts for 'Idol' are definitely very intimidating at first. There's lots of fine, fine details that you have to read through.
I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
I was a bartender in New York and I overheard this girl saying she made $3000 doing a commercial. A kid at work told me, 'Hey, I know this director and he'd really like you!'. So I walked into this guy's office and was like 'I was thinking maybe I could make $3000' and he hired me for commercials, short films, like 15 jobs in a row.
You can love someone like your son, even if he's not your biological son, and you can love someone like your father, even if he's not your biological father.
