Everyone has a book inside of them - but it doesn't do any good until you pry it out.
You basically have to be willing to devote your life to journalism if you want to break in. Treat it like it's medical school or law school.
Tax rates aren't everything with regard to incentives to work. I would probably work at a 100% tax rate next to a nude modeling studio. I'm joking, but you know what I'm saying. There's a lot more to it than just tax rates. It's economics that I do; I don't do nude modeling studio economics. People do respond to taxes.
You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
Mrs. Obama is not a great beauty. But she is so interesting-looking - so bright. That will always take you farther.
One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.
We represent people, and any good congressperson wants to know how their people at home feel about issues. I can tell you for sure in our office that is taken into account, and that is true for any congresspersons I know.
But when you're a working actor - and that's what you keep saying in your head, how blessed you are to have a job - and you are working with heavyweights, working with the best guys in TV, it's pretty cool. Exhausting, but cool.
I don't like the idea of 'trends' at all. If you follow trends, then everybody looks the same. The best shopping experiences are in local markets, especially in foreign cities.
It was so simple in the old days. You put out an album, people promoted it, it got in the charts, and you had a hit.
After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.
There's something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden. In a way, I feel that time doesn't exist in LA. Sometimes I don't know if it's February or April or October, because you're always sitting outside on the same patio, and it's 70 degrees.
The red carpet is very important. You have to be very careful to have the right person dressed in right way. For me, it has to be a perfect look.
I love seeing on Twitter when someone says I'm gay, and I say, 'So what does it matter if I am? So be it. I hope you are not voting for me because you are making the presumption that I'm straight.'
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
I am very strong. When you have children, you have to be.
We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater.
Don't just let your career happen to you.
You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process.
On a book like 'X-Men,' you have to stay true to the established fiction, working with editors to ensure continuity, sometimes across multiple titles.
A priest once said to me, 'Think of a priest going to the altar as you walk out on the stage.' I would hate to think that anyone thought I was coming to preach. But art and music open up things that you can't put into words. It's about bringing joy when you go out there.
And as you point out, for American families who struggle every day to figure out how do they pay, we talk about gasoline prices. That throws budgets into a real problem when you have budgeted really tight.
I would like you to consider the difference in the time from 1963 to date. The FBI, at that time, was headed by Mr. Hoover who had been appointed Director continuously. He had, I would say, a good reputation.
But I tell you, I would really be interested if there was a partner we could take in, that could put them over here on the side, that would allow us full leverage and access down the road.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
In Braille you write your flat sign first and then your note.
Facebook is who you used to know; Twitter is who you want to know and things you want to know more about.
I'm a reporter; you can't subpoena people to talk to you. If you write to them and try to call them on the phone and they don't answer or so forth, then take them unawares.
You have to learn certain skills to present magic.
I've heard, 'May the Force be with you' about as many times as, 'Hey, how you doing?'
When you have a person in power who punishes people for speaking their mind, it's truly dangerous.
Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I'd be the talk of the day.
Suddenly you're surrounded by strangers who want something from you. The thing is, they don't know what they want, and you don't know what they want, unless it's an autograph, and you just sort of stand there grinning at one another.
I was either going onstage or going into an interview or getting on a plane. You can't really feel everything fully when you don't have the time to process.
Characters can become boring. That's what's tricky about television. It goes on and on - you're playing this same character for five seasons and it gets easy to fall into just walking on the set and assuming you know how to play a scene.
Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
