Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Well, you know, I had been a peanut farmer. I had - you know who was the first president - Democratic president I ever met? Bill Clinton.
I would say of characters I've created, the one I've felt the most connected to emotionally was Adam Austin from 'The Prophet.' I think it was the connection to the idea that one decision you make innocently enough can have very serious, drastic consequences for someone else's life.
I have stopped having goals. If you have many goals, and you don't reach your goals, it is very upsetting, so I just think of keeping it simple, working hard and going and playing the game. But I know there are going to be very important series for Indian cricket. I will just try my best to be in my fittest form.
Make as much money as you can, but can you please pay your taxes, because this is a major problem.
Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators.
I can only speak for myself, but you never set out to be funny. You just set out to play the scenes real, and hopefully the funny comes.
Everything they say about Elvis today is true. He was just one great guy. He wasn't jealous of anyone. I would say Elvis was really someone special when you add it all up.
I've honestly fallen in love with a man and I've honestly fallen in love with a woman. I don't know how you label that, it's just how it is.
My feeling is that if you can cook, I can teach you how to do television.
If you're going to spend two or three years of your life working on something, you've got to be making the kind of movie that discusses and influences the culture and is engaged in the world you're living in.
I like almonds as a snack - keeps your energy up but doesn't fill you up.
It's really hard for men to tell other men 'I love you' without putting a 'man' at the end of it. Like, 'I love you... man.' You just can't look at another man and say, 'I love you.'
Whatever you wear, you have to own it. Make it yours.
Here in the Premier League, you have to give 100 per cent for the whole 90 minutes. It's not like after 70 minutes you can say, 'We're 2-0 up, so let's have some fun now' - that doesn't happen in the Premier League.
There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect.
Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.
The less seriously you take yourself, the better work you're going to do.
They say 6 million people see you when you act in a film; it may only be 600 in a play. But the effect on the 600 may be truer and more lasting.
Decide where and when you want to write. I like space, and silence is an inspiration to me.
Maybe during the last sprint, sometimes you can lose, sometimes you can gain.
I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it. You don't have a lot of options in Indiana anyway, though, so I didn't want to stay there. I graduated early and worked a bunch of really odd jobs, and then I joined the Marines.
I think that as soon as you think of yourself as a famous person or anything like that, you're objectifying yourself in some weird way.
I think art teaches us how to feel, what our parameters can be, what sensations can be like; it makes you more engaged with life.
I've never done a superhero movie. It's very nice to you as an actor in several worlds to go and to experiment.
You don't see a lot of super-high-end hotels being built in Houston because it's so expensive to build, unless you're in New York and can charge $1,000 a night.
Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.
You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.
You want to know what a robot's designed for. And if it's doing something outside the scope of what it's made to do, you should be very suspicious.
England and Denmark have a sense of irony and a darker sense of humour that you don't necessarily find in Germany and Sweden.
If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.
If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know.
Every time you think the problem is 'out there,' that very thought is the problem.
I used to work for the World Health Organisation in poor countries all over the world - Bangladesh, Korea, the Philippines and India. You learn a whole range of things about how other people are living and try to connect with them to gain an understanding of where they're coming from.
You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.
My motivation for starting Fisker was simple: I thought there must be a market for beautiful, exciting, fast, environmentally friendly cars. The car is probably the only product you can still fall in love with and have a relationship with.
