It's not every day you get to create a band like the Sex Pistols, and what it changed, on a musical level. I love that we've done something that was important.
The key to sitcom success is miserable people. If you see a happy couple, it's just gone, like when Sam and Diane got together on Cheers.
When you are interviewing someone, never let your camera person turn off the camera. The second you turn off the camera, they'll say the magic thing that you'd been looking for the whole interview. People want to relax after the performance is done. Don't be afraid of awkward silence. That is your friend.
Nobody's born evil. I guess that's why we're drawn to violence. We're fascinated by it, but there's a moral in how you examine it.
What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?
When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency.
You go back to the 17th century, the commercial and industrial centers of the world were China and India.
A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
I'm not in a rush to do anything. And I wouldn't say I pick and choose. When it comes to producers picking people for roles I don't think it's between me and Tom Cruise, do you know what I mean?
I foresee the Chinese ruling the world. What are you going to do to stop it? No president of the United States will ever have enough power to stop the Chinese when they want to take over the world.
It's so easy to manipulate an audience, but it's nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that are not critically attuned are aware of cynical manipulation in film.
No it wasn't at the time cause you have to remember, I had been playing clubs since I was 13.
If you fail to pay your minimums for any debt on time, your credit score will take a major hit and you run the risk of seeing the interest rate on all of your cards go up. An easy way to remind yourself to pay, is to sign up to receive your statements via e-mail.
You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
It is not easy to grow old in this business, when you are a woman above all, in the cinema.
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.
Twitter is a place where you share your thoughts, yourself... you don't want a plain white backdrop for that. You want the entire page to say something about who you are. Designer or not, if the urge strikes you, go for it. Put up that watercolor you've never shown anyone. Take a photo of that hat you just knitted... whatever it is, share it.
You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of things.
I don't have a lot of desires, you see; I feel so lucky. God has give me a lot of things already; there's nothing to ask for.
It's man's nature to abuse knowledge and power, be it in the realm of science, government, or Wall Street. Take God out of the picture, and you have real trouble.
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
President Bush spent last night calling world leaders to support the war with Iraq and it is sad when the most powerful man on earth is yelling, 'I know you're there, pick up, pick up.
They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.
You can really do more than you think you can do.
Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.
Acting lessons teach you to really listen to what the other person is saying because in acting it's all about responding to the lines.
Honesty is something you can't wear out.
And you know, almost in a perverse way, I wish it had been undue influence because we know how to correct that. We get rid of the people who, in fact, were exercising that.
When you put more money in the pockets of working families, they spend it on groceries, gas, school supplies, and other goods and services. And that helps businesses grow and create jobs. So many forward-looking employers, large and small, understand this.
Does any new parent, even if you're not a first-time parent, ever really know what to do?
Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.'
I trust you: That's huge. That's truth. That's real love. Everyone uses 'I love you' so loosely.
People say you should do it this way, someone else suggests that, yes, there's financing, but maybe you should use this actor. And there are the threats, at the end - if you don't do it this way, you'll lose your box office; if you don't do it that way, you'll never get financed again... 35, 40 years of this, you get beat up.
Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.
