Thank you to everyone that has made me the athlete I am! God, family and friends, my competitors and supporters! You have all had a hand!
You have to believe in yourself.
On 'Saturday Night Live,' you wear so many hats there. You're the prop person, the actor, you're everything.
Publicity can be terrible. But only if you don't have any.
Go see it and see for yourself why you shouldn't go see it.
You speak into it and everything is recorded, voice, tone, intonation, everything. You turn a little wheel, and forth it comes, and can be repeated ten thousand times. Only fancy what this suggests.
The word nobody wants to use, but you see if you are here illegally, that's the punishment, deportation.
People think what you are doing is real, on a TV show.
Oscars are won with two or three shots only, because if it's really beautifully photographed, you don't really notice it until the astounding moment emphasizes it.
If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.
There comes a point in every story where you have got a reservoir of knowledge, and you are then really just adding the substantial new facts to your understanding of it. That is the easiest situation, because you can call on that reservoir, but when you get a sudden story out of nowhere, like ebola, you don't have a reservoir of knowledge.
At the typewriter you find out who you are.
Suffering will get you great footage. I don't know about closer to God. Although there have been times when I've suffered to the point where I think I might be about to meet him.
You have to visualize a second or two ahead of your car what line you are taking, what you are going to do, before you get there because it comes too fast.
It's my privilege and honor to cook three meals a day for my family, and it's a luxury on a level that I didn't even realize, because it can be relentless for me on some days. You have pride in how you take care of your family.
One of my favorite things about Telluride is because it's so small, the directors are really there for each other. You look at another director, and they feel the same thing you feel.
Keep your debt low, and ask, Can your operational expertise make an impact? Then you're taking away a lot of the risk.
I think what happens when there's a scandal in your life, the things you depended on are taken away from you, and so you value what you have. I had two very nice little boys, so sweet, and a very good husband.
When you stop talking, you've lost your customer. When you turn your back, you've lost her.
You may invite the entire 35th Division to your wedding if you want to. I guess it's going to be yours as well as mine. We might as well have the church full while we are at it.
The most brilliant satire of all time was 'A Modest Proposal' by Jonathan Swift. You'll notice how everything got straightened out in Ireland within days of that coming out.
I still like the relationship part of any story. You don't want your character to figure everything out and then at the end of the day, go home and eat soup from a can by herself.
You can make a board for all the goals you want in your life with the pictures on it, and that's great, daydreaming is wonderful, but you can never plan your future.
It is not good to cross the bridge before you get to it.
One of the hardest aspects of this protracted public persona is not knowing others as well as they feel they know me. It's a rather clumsy feeling actually; to not know someone who acts as though you're old friends.
I think all family businesses are difficult and fraught with problems because you have that family relationship to get over. But my dad has been so supportive, we've managed to work around that.
With paper printed books, you have certain freedoms. You can acquire the book anonymously by paying cash, which is the way I always buy books. I never use a credit card. I don't identify to any database when I buy books. Amazon takes away that freedom.
Don't automatically obey Presidential directives if you disagree or if you suspect he hasn't considered key aspects of the issue.
I have quite a robust relationship with regret. You simply don't know what the alternative would have been.
You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it.
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.
Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
I worked with Paul McCartney for a while and saw what it does to you to be treated like a god for twenty years.
