On the one hand, there is no reason that a black person needs to live a portion of his or her life being concerned about the people of color around him. On the other hand, if you don't you're crazy.
You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.
Welfare reform happened with reconciliation; half the Democrats voted for it. The Bush tax cuts happened with reconciliation; twelve Democratic Senators voted for it. You didn't have a real partisan issue on those times that it was used.
If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up.
I don't really believe in 'directions' in art; the rope twists as you follow it, that's all.
I think any cancer patient, if you dig not too deeply, they want to live.
Every film requires a different process. You learn about these particular actors and the particular chemistry between these actors. Recognizing when you don't need to shoot a scene because it's going to be cut anyway.
By exercise. I'll tell you one thing, you don't always have to be on the go. I sit around a lot, I read a lot, and I do watch television. But I also work out for two hours every day of my life, even when I'm on the road.
You are the most powerful cultural force in the world.
Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!
You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony.
The dirt was OK, but once you hit the grass... Wet grass is slippery.
Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.
When you're on a long running series, you reach a very rarefied, high oxygen area and after a while to keep a show on the air they have to make some very drastic changes.
You never know if they like you for who you are or what you are. Would he love me or the money?
A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day, or bad that day.
A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?
You know, I haven't written as much as most other writers. Certainly maybe those who keep a more regular schedule accomplish more.
You know what, I've always been a smarty-pants, and the only thing that goes wrong now is that people know that I play a doctor on TV and so they quickly call me out on the fact that I really think I am a doctor.
One of the things that happens in the business is that success is a very strange thing in that if you are involved in something very successful the next person wants you to repeat it.
Television has always been something you watch; now, increasingly, it is also something you do.
Friends from the press, China needs to learn more about the world, and the world also needs to learn more about China. I hope you will continue to make more efforts and contributions to deepening the mutual understanding between China and the countries of the world.
I see, in the future, bioengineered almost everything you can imagine that we use.
When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
This is the difficulty about talking about it without sounding big-headed, but you cannot speak of New Zealand now without my involvement in what it has become.
I don't hate the music, but I hate the process. When I look at it, I don't see song titles and artwork, I see the fight - I see the emotions, the blood, sweat and tears. There are a couple of songs on there that I love; but 'Lasers' is a little bit of what you love, a little bit of what you like, and a lot of what you had to do.
When you hear a large symphony orchestra. for instance, in a concert hall, there's a big, sweeping sound that just doesn't get on to a record.
Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
What you hope for, like Unforgiven did a lot to give you a chance to do it again sometime.
Well, one of the problems of working on a story with a character that sacred in the religions of the world or in a picture about that person, is that you have to forget about that and play it as real as you can because you can't look at yourself and judge yourself.
The script is always the main preparation for me. Sometimes you have a period piece where you have to research around it, but if the writers have done their homework well enough, the information is all in the script.
Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.
If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?
Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.
