Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
Taking control of your own creation, you can ultimately affect your future.
It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.
But I hope that you walk around the corner and you get very surprised.
If you look internationally over the last 50 years there have been improvements in the third world, but in the last 20 years the reverse has happened, with debt crises and increased poverty.
One of the things you learn in football is that you're only as good as your last outing. I don't like to reflect on what we've done in the past. I'm not a very good storyteller, for one thing. I'd disappoint you. When it's time, I'll talk about the good old days. But it's a sign of old age, reveling in the past.
I think you'll see if you look at 'Up', we've focused a lot on labor (and the forces trying to keep labor down) and have featured everything from Wal Mart workers, to on-the-ground organizers, to union presidents to restaurant workers sitting at the table sharing their experience and expertise.
Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf; to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP.
Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.
The great thing about stage is that you have more control. The stage is yours. The time is yours. Film is really the editor's medium.
I'm not a trained dancer - I know, I know, you're shocked, I'm sure.
When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition. If you don't understand what it's about, you're depriving yourself of being really able to communicate this poem.
People say I'm not world level, but I haven't fought at that class yet, so you can't say that until I have.
With luck, you have other things to do than wait for lightning to strike.
You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.
You don't want your marriage to be sustainable. You want to be evolving, nurturing, learning.
I very much prefer the balance in a scene to standing out and so you have to make a decision.
I sometimes feel that if your book sells more than 20 years, then there's something in it that you can say, gee, I did something that endures, that's timeless.
I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons.
As an actor I'm part of a long line of character people you can take back to the silent movies. There's always the little guy who's the sidekick to the tall, good-looking guy who gets the girl.
I love huge movies. Not sure I am the guy to make them, but you can rely on me being there watching them.
I want to - more than anything - to create a moment that people will never forget. Not for me, but for themselves. That's what I remember about great Super Bowl performances in the past, when you really get lost in the moment with your family.
But, you know, you can't be a star at home.
We keep making the same mistakes as a species, and you can usually draw it back to the fact that we are all terrified of dying. We also all think that we are going to escape it until we get to 65!
When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.
The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.
One of the sad things about retiring is that you just become increasingly irrelevant. The world flows around you, and you don't seem to be impacting it any longer.
I like my life alone. I mean, I love being with friends, and I love kissing and loving someone to pieces. But it's hard to find someone who doesn't ultimately start judging you and your choices.
I'm always a little bit cautious around invented terminology because so much science fiction is off-putting to the uninitiated. You open up the first page, and it's full of all these made-up words.
I didn't really like 'You Raise Me Up' at the time we recorded it; now it's my favourite Westlife song.
I don't know how you can go your whole life and not listen once to Bob Marley - what's the point?
I don't want to be overly philosophical, but I think there are things you earn for yourself as you go.
Tim Burton... as an actor you wait and wish and hope and pray you'll work with him.
I find more interesting roles for women in period pieces. I do personally like watching period films; I think you can really get lost in the fantasy of them.
How do you make people do the best work? You make them feel comfortable, so you can feel comfortable - and then you can have a really good ballgame!
