Even the dark places are places. You're still somewhere.
My dearly beloved if I am to die today and never see the sweet face of you I want you to know that I am no great man and am lucky to have such a woman as you.
You can call me a pain. I'll accept that as a compliment.
You can never connect on a deeper level if you idolise someone - you don't see the real person.
I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
I tell people 'America's Got Talent' is the best summer job you could have - you get to watch people strive for their dreams all summer long. So when you see me rooting for these people or dancing on the side of the stage, that's what I'd be doing if I was watching this show at home!
The biggest mistake is to assume that another writer's successful strategy will work for you, too. Publishers' marketers - and even freelance publicists who cost mega bucks - tend to do the same basic things for all books.
I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be shared by different groups.
The energy of live theater is indescribable. You are just in the moment for an hour and a half.
When you're really having fun, you're always doing it a little bit in a way that you're not supposed to. That's when great things happen.
We like movies and books that give us this emotionally moving experience, where you feel like a slightly different person, and you see the world a little different after you finish. It lets you see your own life in a different way, and it actually makes you feel really good.
What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen.
Women have that weird way of trying to be feminist. You know, like 'hear me roar.' But what they really want is a man to open the door for them.
Listen, I like great actors. You can be a movie star without being a great actor - this has been proved several times - and I like my casts to have great actors. Acting is more important to me than being a star.
My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry.
There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.
As a writer of historical fiction, I believe you don't want to fictionalize gratuitously; you want the fictional aspects to prod and pressure the history into new and exciting reactions.
If you ask me if I think I will be sober in 24 hours time I can say yes, but in two years I can't tell you. I could be dead.
You had to decompress the pressure before the race. I taught my heart to relax. I lay down before the race. It gave me more energy just before the race.
In Hollywood you just fail upwards.
When you disrespect Australian law, they will tell your firmly. Declare everything when you enter Australia.
You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.
You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
Running gives you a great opportunity to work stuff out in your head.
Most of the games don't let you focus too much on the cheerleaders, but I've been watching these girls.
I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.
I remember thinking, 'If I don't love the woman that I look at in the mirror, I am never going to be successful.' That was the moment I had to start convincing myself to look in the mirror and start saying, 'I love you.'
You should never look at somebody and say, 'I wish I had their life,' because you never really know what struggles they're going through.
If you don't know what is being said, the rest of the actor's work is wasted.
I'd love to learn to cook. I think the ladies like a guy who can cook. Also, there are lots of available ladies at cooking classes. Can you tell I'm single?
The best thing is to lie in a warm Epsom salts bath for 15 minutes and then go straight to bed. You will sleep really well afterwards.
If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end.
The thing about 'Batman Begins' is that he's a character that people thought they knew a lot about, and yet you're able to identify the spirit in his life where even in the comic books it's not explored that much.
Zac Efron would make us feel guilty for eating big dinners. He'd say, 'Do you really want to eat those carbs?' It was like, 'Thanks a lot!'
There is a real sense of family when you're around Australians, even if you don't know them.
Some people feel fulfillment from a bitter end - it gives them some sort of sense of reality. But, when you're dealing with reality, I feel like films should discover the part that is happy.
