I'll play what you want or I won't play at all.
There were movies that always made me want to be a director. You see brilliant scenes and the way the emotions were handled. I thought, I'd really like to do that.
Learn to say no in situations where saying no can be difficult, where it could mean getting fired. Say no anyway, because it could lead you to greater opportunities.
There are some guys you have problems beating because of their style - I always had difficulties with guys like Michael Chang and Andre Agassi because their returns were so good and they played so well in defence.
I've never told you the story of Alice in Wonderland, have I?
When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.
You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.
You know when you have a manager that is always successful, is always in the title race and always playing in the Champions League.
My deal is that I pay more attention to whatever job I have than the relationships I have. Now, if I had considered my job to be a wife and mother, then I would have been pretty good at it. But I didn't consider it a job. I thought it was like brushing your teeth - it's not fun, it's just something you do to keep your teeth from falling out.
Not everything has to be a money-making operation. You do things sometimes because it makes you feel good.
In the scriptures, we are told you can't really understand happiness unless you understand sadness. You don't know pleasure if you don't know pain. It's part of life. So can you learn something from somebody who has gone from success to success to success? I don't think so.
It is difficult to go on the next night after you receive a sandbagging.
Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.
When you get over the anxiety, you discover you should have been mad a long time ago.
To me, self-esteem is not self-love. It is self-acknowledgment, as in recognizing and accepting who you are.
You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really.
You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future.
You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.
It connects with the theologians' point that you can say what God is not, but not (easily) what He is.
It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you don't trust yourself, either in your first or your second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit.
You never stop thinking about technique, but really, the reason we're actors is because of the sheer joy of those few moments you get every now and again where you're totally present. The rest is just struggle and misery.
You have got to have an agent. It's a business. But I think there is a way to be artful and commercial at the same time.
When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.
We all have to work for happiness. And you cannot listen to other people. That is the worst mistake you can make.
If you're a coach, you're a teacher.
We live in a very chaotic world that sometimes we - it just seems like a mess. One of the reasons why we listen to music, and to great classical music in particular, is that everything is in an order and in a place and has a beauty that you see in nature, that you see and that people look for when they look for God.
Honestly, I can't tell you what I what I would be doing if I wasn't chairman of GM, because this is all I've done.
It is one of the issues that will have to be worked through however let me make the point and I think anyone would accept that if you set it up properly, not only will you get better environmental outcomes, you have a chance to create more wealth with the available resource.
You must give to get, You must sow the seed, before you can reap the harvest.
What is the cruelest thing you can do to someone who is trying to concentrate? Call their name.
Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.
Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
You never know until a song comes out and becomes what it becomes, obviously you can't predict how the masses will react.
Fraud is common when you give away billions. Fraud related to Hurricane Katrina spending is estimated to top $2 billion. In addition, debit cards provided to hurricane victims were used to pay for Caribbean vacations, NFL tickets, Dom Perignon champagne, 'Girls Gone Wild' videos, and at least one sex change operation.
It's obvious that if you're going to play a character you need to amass information about that person and about their environment or their era that they're in and use as little or as much as necessary.
All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.
