In Tehran, the 444 days of the Iran Hostage Crisis was the first world event in which you could literally have live events beamed into your living room. Now, every world event plays out on its own, and as a media event.
The film world is a crazy place to be. You sit around all day waiting for the phone to ring. Are people talking about you or aren't they?
If you take my entire golfing life, my favorites are the older courses, the more traditional and the more authentic.
Life is short and you've got to get the most out of it.
It's not about ego. Really. If it was ego, I'd be telling you about my awesome... oh, never mind.
I think I learned pretty early that in the end, it's only you. To an extent, you're all alone.
You gotta understand, when moving images first started, people wanted sound, color, big screen and depth.
You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything.
You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves.
In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
You just have to be classy at the end of the day. That doesn't mean you can't go with a midnight blue tux. And if you can find a deep red tux that looks classy and classic, I think you can pull it off.
If you're cast right you can actually just let yourself go because all your gestures will be right, all your intonations will be right because you just somewhere understand who this person is.
First and foremost, you have to make the movie for yourself. And that's not to say, to hell with everyone else, but what else have you got to go on but your own taste and judgment?
I'm the only person you've ever met who has read Longfellow.
In Los Angeles, it's always nice out. In New York, it can be nice out or horrifying. You really have no idea what you're going to get on any given day.
No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.
If you really want to be an actress, go to school. I think it's great what people are doing on YouTube, but don't forget to go to class. Have a vision for yourself, but don't forget to do the work.
You better be looking for another pitcher.
We all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don't see on my CV. The stuff that doesn't work out teaches you how to trust your instincts and adapt.
We live in a digital world where all is available at the touch of a screen. Money has been simplified, changed subtly over time from tangible bills to numbers in cyberspace. Cash is no longer in a cloth bag; it's numbers on a screen. Numbers that can be manipulated and modified. If you run out of numbers, you can just buy some more, right?
Actually, I think I come at things a whole different way from most people, and, you know, sometimes political answers are one way to solve the problem, and sometimes there are better ways to do it.
I became very timid, very retreating. I wouldn't talk to anybody. I didn't look you in the eye. I just had that kind of personality as a kid that basically puts a target on you.
I think reviewers are sexist... This isn't to sound bitter, but I think you're more likely to get a critical kicking if you're a woman. I just think that's a fact. I really think less value is put in general on women's voices, across the board.
With a film, you can get into it and love it. With music, you can listen to over and over again, but with music videos, they're like this short little stab.
I have played for Real Madrid, which is such a big club and where the pressure is so huge because you have to go and, really, win absolutely every game. There is no game where people don't expect you to win. So, having played there for three years, pressure is nothing that would scare me.
If something happens, you have to realize that you can't just yell at people all the time.
There have always been men of all background and ethnicities on my father's job sites. And long before it was commonplace, you also saw women.
If you're open with people and provide context for the decisions that your making, customers will stick with you.
In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.
To tell you the truth, in my work, love is always in opposition to the elements. It creates dilemmas. It brings in suffering. We can't live with it, and we can't live without it. You'll rarely find a happy ending in my work.
It's very important to hold on to what you want. In front of you is very easy fame and very easy money.
I worry that people think you have to go to a university to be a good writer, which is categorically untrue. I don't think I learned how to write at Oxford. I did not go to any creative writing classes or anything.
If you want to be the best, you can't take the path of least resistance. Every morning, you wake up, and your mind tells you it's too early, and your body tells you you're a little too sore, but you've got to look deep within yourself and know what you want and what you're striving for.
It feels like being in a band is a luxury now: like you can only do it if you're signed really early or you come from a wealthy family.
I think that you love who you love, and there are people who you love that people aren't going to understand why, and that sort of doesn't really matter.
