I haven't stopped playing. If you play all the time, then your chops are up and you tend to grow.
I think you have to be much more secure and much less angry to trust the simple. You've got to be in a pretty good place to trust those simple, obvious answers and, most important, to use them.
As Bob Dole found out, you can't keep a positive image while being your party's mouthpiece in Congress. That's why no legislative leader since James Madison has ever been elected president.
You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.
The kids put you on a pedestal. I didn't like it.
What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?
There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within.
It's so rare that you actually get the part that you really, really, really want.
As long as I have my feet, I can dance; you know what I'm saying?
My mantra is: Realize you're going to fail all the time, and accept it. That doesn't mean I'm not frightened of it.
The real bummer of fame is that at some point you're bound to get demoted.
When you win, you want more of it. You can't win enough.
I've had an amazing life, but I think I was born with a little bit of sadness in me. I've always been attracted to those things, whether it's sad movies, sad music... when you're sad, you feel everything in a greater way than you do when you're happy.
Well, basically, when you get SNL, everyone wants to take a meeting, just in case you end up being good.
A steamer is like an inhaler, so you can inhale this oil or frankincense or eucalyptus. Before I go onstage, I spend half an hour taking in that steam, and it saves my life!
Getting rich is about fun. It's a game, and you have to treat it that way.
All fame ever does for you is get attention for the work you really want to do.
The winters are too long, and there's only one airline, so it's difficult to escape when you feel frustrated or claustrophobic. The audience for our films isn't very large, so it's difficult to support an industry. But, Iceland is beautiful. Sometimes it's hard to imagine living anywhere else.
If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
Race horses are like golfers, you're never sure how they're going to come out of the stalls. It's just - hopefully the horses come out of the race all right, just fit and ready to go again in the near future, but 3rd was good. It's paid for its hay.
Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk.
Employers will work you longer for less money and under questionable safety conditions because it is their duty to prioritize the bottom line. As individuals, we cannot complain. That's why we need a union to speak for us, certainly when our safety, our health, and our very lives are at stake!
Your sanity is harder to get back than money or contacts. You are the magic. You are the art. You can't lose that.
The great thing about stage is that you have a live audience.
I want people to talk about my comedy, about cancer, about body issues, about scars, because cancer, it's a big deal, but scars are not a big deal. My skin healed. Relax, you know? That's all it is.
The more things you own, the more people you need to employ.
Being a photographer is like listening to music. If you have a camera, by just living your life you're bound to find some things that are worth taking a picture of. You don't have to be an audiophile to have taste in music. It happens through osmosis.
Bruce Lee was just so lightning-fast. People try to emulate him in whatever way they can, but to try and do what he was doing... you're just inspired by it; you're not trying to say, 'Look, I can do that.' No one can do what he did.
I was a window dresser for Burton's once. What really put me off was the area manager coming round and saying, Charles, I think you're a natch at this.
No, but women are saying, and they say, are you crazy? But because they've had children since they were 20 years old. I haven't. So I had a child when I was 43, and now he's really out with his friends.
When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.
As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described it as a peakless mountain. Even for De Niro there's Pacino and for Pacino there's De Niro.
I think the more you do as an actor, the more facility you have to switch on and off.
Every day, I genuinely count my blessings. One of the greatest things in life is to do a job you really enjoy.
I was at a rough high school where admitting you were an actor didn't go down well.
The humor and emotion of the 'Do You Want to Build a Snowman' theme makes me cry every time I watch it, and that deep emotion is something we'd love to do on the show. If we can make you cry, we always try to. And 'Once,' when it's at its best, is emotional and fun.
