There's a sense of aliveness that comes from connection, shared experience. And you see it in every place. You see it when ball players jump up and down, gather at home plate, hugging, and it's not just because they're winning, it's that shared moment, that feeling of - we enter the world alone, we leave alone.
London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.
Moving is easy, exciting, an adventure - when you're young. Later, not so much. I love Massachusetts, my old home. Sometimes, late at night, I even study the real estate ads in my old hometown. But it's not even a fantasy. My parents are both gone. The world I left doesn't exist anymore. Neither does the person I was.
In Bombay, we have a fine concert hall. I think it is high time we built venues in Delhi and Calcutta, not only for western music, but also Indian music. It doesn't matter which party is in power; don't you think the capital of India should have a concert hall?
The town formerly known as St. Louis is now 'Defiance.' The scope of the show and game is going to be massive because you have the people who love the genre of gaming who love sci-fi; they're in bed together, normally.
A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.
It's funny: I've always had the analogy of a snow globe, that Hollywood is a snow globe. No, it's true. If you shake it up, you can look at it and really enjoy it. But don't ever go in. Don't ever buy into it and be like, 'I deserve all of this!' because it can go away at any time, so just have a lot of fun.
In this business, you never say no to anything.
Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.
Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it.
There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.
You know, I'm really not that competent at describing things musically.
I have always watched the rushes, and have learned more because I have done so, because you can have all manner of ideas in your head, but they have to end up on the screen.
To be a top-class athlete, you have to train hard, you have to eat right, you have to get enough rest. I feel the way golf is going nowadays, you have to treat yourself as an athlete.
It just seems there's better things to do in your life than be on television if it's not interesting, if it's not challenging, if it's not fun. You know? When it stops being those things for me, I'll stop making television.
I hope all of you are going to fill out your census form when it comes in the mail next month. If you don't return the form the area you live in might get less government money and you wouldn't want that to happen, would you.
When you get to your third millionth frequent flyer mile, I think something snaps in your brain.
You can't pander to your audience. You might in the short term, but ultimately you can't hoodwink them, either.
When art in general, and film in particular, succeeds is when it pulls you away onto a voyage. Then it's a good film.
I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what some would call crap, or you can work very modestly with eloquently moving results.
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
There has been two awful fights in town this week. You don't know anything about such fighting at home as I speak of; this is no place for women and children, yet, although they all say it is so quiet here... if a man fights in Kansas and gets whipped, he never says anything more about it. If he does, he will get whipped for his trouble.
When people say, 'You're not being realistic,' they're just trying to tag some thoughts that they can't otherwise handle.
Courtney Love is a loose cannon. She says what she thinks. She's wild on the red carpet. You get the best sound bites from Courtney Love.
If you're going to write a book that might, in its very best accidental career, sell 30,000 copies, you've got to have a day job.
When you're dealing with new and emerging diseases, you have no idea and you can't predict in advance what would happen.
The process and organization leading up to cooking the egg can tell you a lot about the cook.
If you are ignorant, you certainly can get into some interesting arguments.
I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diverse and even in a sense much more fundamental, you take the fundamental religious right in this country, its got to go back about 50 years.
I'm not here to perform. I'm here to sign autographs. You have to wait till I come back with my own hand.
Creating a safe space at our shows isn't encouraging anything. It's just saying thank you.
If you have a difficult marriage, it's the hard times that make it better. If you have a relationship, it's the hard times that actually make it better, and that goes for life as well.
I think I was first choice for the part. I don't know - that's what they always tell you anyway. I didn't have to do any audition for the part. Sam saw me in Dinner and the whole thing slipped into place.
I think you learn more about yourself in the context of a relationship than you can outside of it.
I'm a private guy, and you don't want to be out there preaching to people. But faith leads you in the decisions you make. You don't always pick the right path, but it's there in your conscience.
