All artists are people of growth. It's like food, you take the good and leave the rest.
I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.
Say what you will about him Ed Koch is still the best show in town.
As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
In Kenya you've got the great birds and monkeys leaping through the trees overhead. It's a chance to remember what the world is really like.
You can't plan anything, right? You can try.
As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play.
I'm spoiled rotten, as my children would tell you.
I'm the whitest guy you will ever meet. The first time I saw an African-American, my dad had to tell me to stop staring.
You get a little picture that reflects the whole. You can get readers interested in the life of one guy, and he can reflect the whole life around him. And it's a better picture than the politicians give you.
You look at Gone With the Wind, how right Vivian Leigh was for that. Don't know if that would happen today.
I always like having kid energy around. I think it's good for a movie, even when you're doing dramatic stuff.
That can definitely mess with your music - if you overthink. 'What's radio going to think?' or 'What are these people going to think?'
You see, as Americans we're not defined by class, and we will never be told our place. What makes our nation exceptional is that anyone, from any background, can climb the highest of heights.
You will get cynicism, and the only way to break through is keep showing people and take actions.
You can love two or more women at once... but you cannot be loyal to more than one.
I never really did years of movie-after-movie-after-movie but when you've got three toddlers in the house you're performing all day long, anyway, with puppet shows and stories - I act around the clock.
It's nice to know you have support. Last night I got a marriage proposal. I just laughed.
I felt that 'Deep Space' was the way to do a spin off series of an existing franchise where you really are doing a very different show. It's a different format. It's a different feeling.
If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.
Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.
There's always a slight tension when you sell a book to Hollywood, especially a nonfiction book. The author wants his story told intact; the nonfiction author wants it told accurately.
You don't need really expensive clothes to look cute.
People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it -ignorance is when you choose not to understand something.
I love the art of acting, and I love film, because you always have another chance if you want it. You know, if we - if this isn't going well, you can't say - well, you could say - let's stop. Let's start over again, Gene, because you were too nervous.
The passage of time is a continuing thing. At 18, you're going to live forever, and you are definitely not at 52, so that is a recurring topic. I still think it's the main stuff.
People still take it really personally. They come up to me at breakfast places like, 'When are you growing your hair back?'
A lot of us lead relatively sedentary lifestyles, so you have to motivate yourself and force yourself to go to the gym and do active things. The folks that have figured it out, found that thing that they love and made it a big part of their lives, it's easy for them to stay in shape.
Sitting down to eat in our house is about sharing, you know, talking about the day you've had, be it in school or work or whatever, so that's very important to us.
So many people in L.A. have such different styles. People either dress very similar or very different. It's interesting to find people who think outside the box, and it's interesting, when you mix different mind-sets, what you can come up with.
I didn't know I was gonna act. I thought I was gonna be a singer because that's what I did first, and I was like, 'When I grow up, I want to be, you know, a singer.'
You had two men who knew the exact same thing, which is Russia did meddle in the elections. I think President Trump wanted to make sure that President Putin was aware that he was acknowledging it, that he knew it. I think President Putin did what we all expected him to do, which was deny it.
As you follow the escapades or the journey of the hero through a story, it evokes some kind of emotion in the viewers. The director's job is to make sure that the audience goes through the journey and has an emotional reaction.
You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.
When you get fat, you get a new personality. You can't help it. Complete strangers ascribe it to you.
Metal has its own code of cool, but it's not really trying to be cool. And that was very refreshing to me, that metal is very much about expressing something that seems awesome to you even if, at the time, much of the world was going to mock and reject it.
