As a minister, you shouldn't imagine you know better than the technical experts in your ministry. In the end you're there to apply the political stamp of approval.
Then you have to be with somebody who understands your job. Understands there are gonna be dollybirds going, 'Hi I'm Candy,' and be prepared to ignore that. And also be prepared to be there when you get home. That's a difficult job.
We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it.
In other words, the celebrity gets out of hand, and if you're not careful, you will forget what you are about - and that is you are about making music that people want to hear.
Whatever your walk of life is, I think you have to be real about it.
Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.
Brazil go into every World Cup expecting to win - so when it is in Brazil, it is expected even more. You can't understand what the World Cup means to our country. Not just the fans and players, but everybody in Brazil lets us know that they expect it. Our president, people in politics, all tell us to come back with the World Cup.
My painting teacher in high school used to say, 'I can't paint like I want to, but through practice I'll get better.' But I don't think that's true. I think sometimes you just can't paint.
Because the more you write the more you're aware of the weight of your tradition and the difficulties of the form and the more you have already done that you do not want to do again.
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
It is my belief that everything you need to know about the world can be learned in a church choir.
You're in a movie because you're appealing and because you represent the aspiration, the fantasy, the ideal.
Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished.
As the actor, you can't go in saying, 'I'm the bad guy.' You've got to think your reasons for doing what you're doing are good.
On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen.
People say, You paid your dues, but I never paid any dues. It's always been a great trip.
I don't think you can really, truly be the partner you want to be until you know on an absolute level that you are a complete person on your own.
A tattoo doesn't make you look like an individual.
You know what? I don't care. I'm my own guy. I'm very secure with my sexuality. I can cry anytime I want.
Until you become a woman you don't know the things that come with being a woman.
I come from the hi-tech world - you don't survive if you don't constantly reinvent yourself every few years.
If you look closely at 'Breaking Bad' and any given episode of 'The X Files,' you will realise the structure is exactly the same.
I don't care whether you're driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you're headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That's what the American people called for in November, and that's what we intend to deliver.
There are no Kleenex boxes on these loops, just so you know.
Scratch a Russian, and you'll find a peasant.
You don't have control of the car, but you can drive it. Life takes you where it wants you to go and where you need to go.
I know this is economic jargon, but essentially, if you bring more women to the job market, you create value, it makes economic sense, and growth is improved. There are countries where it's almost a no-brainer: Korea, Japan, soon to be China, certainly Germany, Italy. Why? Because they have an aging population.
You replace it by 23 percent tax, a frank, transparent tax embedded in the cost at retail, and everybody gets to takes their whole check home. And the average income earner gets a 50 percent increase in take-home pay.
Don't let yourself make excuses for not doing the things you want to do.
Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can't do that. It's gone, gone forever.
I'm a very big fan of winter-flowering shrubs and bulbs. You have the smell, you have the color - it's really like a present from God when something like that is in flower in the middle of the snow.
Every night is different, you never know what it's going to be like. I remember every night. I don't like to compare them.
As an actor, of course, you want to be in something that's successful.
Always give an autograph when somebody asks you.
After I quote unquote came out as a Republican, one of my dearest gay friends said to me, 'You've got to go on a T.V. show and tell everyone you like gay people.' I was like, 'Why?' He was like, 'Because you're a Republican.' I was like, 'I'm sorry who's stereotyping who?'
I think you do need two terms as a president.
