If you think too much about something, you're not feeling it.
You don't have the chance in a small business - when every dollar counts, every day - to make too many mistakes and recover from them, and you don't have the luxury of waiting to make the decision. You have to move quickly.
If you're in the minor leagues, you want to get to the majors.
I always remember to go on the Staten Island Ferry because it's the most amazing view of New York. And it's free! You see Ellis Island, and it conjures up something of that great moment: you know, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free. It's staggering.
Jazz and poetry both involve a structure that may be familiar and to some extent predictable. And then, you try to create as much surprise and spontaneity and feeling and variation while respecting that structure.
Many of you might already recognize me as the guy in the question-mark suits appearing in the late night TV commercials and on the cover of educational books and CDs.
You got to get lucky because it lasts for a week and a lot of things can happen in a week.
Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?
The idea is to make the script out of a political analysis and then to convey that - sometimes in poetry, sometimes science, sometimes all it takes is a film. The film itself is less and less spectacular because I think very strongly now the more spectacular you are, the more you are absorbed by the things you are trying to destroy.
All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room.
You're only going to get surface with me. It takes me ages to warm up to people.
Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.
You give us the pitching some of these clubs have and no one could touch us, but God has a way of not arranging that, because it's not as much fun.
Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
Which reminds me of a fortune cookie: you often find your destiny on the path you take to avoid it.
I always have those feelings - lucky and blessed - and I don't know if they'll ever go away. I really hope they don't, as I think it keeps you grounded. That's how I feel about every film I do.
I'm really into simple things - things you could wear every day.
I was never a leading man. I've always been in the outer concentric circles in the company, being a character actor, which is a good place to be. It gives you that diversity.
My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.
I'm not going to lie: I'm a competitive player. I think there's no point playing football if you're not competitive and you don't want to win games.
Glorify who you are today, do not condemn who you were yesterday, and dream of who you can be tomorrow.
One of the things that's great about doing a show over and over again... is that you have to find ways to make it spontaneous, as though everything is happening for the first time... to continue to mine the material and find new things.
You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come.
Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
I used to be good with kids, but as I get older, I'm grumpy and terrible with them. As for doing a gig at a 6-year old's birthday party, you couldn't pay me enough.
Injustice is either very blatant - you walk down the street and someone calls you a name; you don't get a job because of your gender or your skin color or your sexual preference - but injustice is also very subliminal.
I think, typically, sci-fi can be a little bit grey and thought provoking. Sometimes it leaves you pondering certain questions and things.
In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.
If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
Beaumont-Hamel sits within a thousand acres of French agriculture. The trenches are under this blanket of grass. In the 1920s, a park was established here and trees from Newfoundland imported to encircle the battlefield so you get the feeling of being within a copse of woods.
The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.
You know, I'm pretty much an open book.
If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!
Sometimes, when you see the newspaper and you read something I said, you say, 'Oh, I can't believe he said that.'
I think it's a tough road if you're a stay-at-home mom, a working mom, if you have a partner, if you don't. It's the best job in the world, and the toughest job in the world all at the same time.
