I'm such a huge fan, and I've done classes of all Lady Gaga music. And she's just someone who evokes freedom and love for her fans and passion in what she does. Lady Gaga, I'll take you out for a salad anytime.
When you act against a blue screen, you have to imagine what's not there.
I'm an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything.
Richard III is not likeable. Macbeth is not likeable. Hamlet is not likeable. And yet you can't take your eyes off them. I'm far more interested in that than I am in any sort of likeability.
My favorite thing to do is to perform. It doesn't matter if people are watching or not because either way, I see 50,000 people when I close my eyes, and I will give a show for those thousands of people, regardless if you see them or not.
If you put me in a box, I'm a character actor. The thing that keeps popping up for me - it sounds really cliche - but I want to play something really physically challenging, something extremely demanding and strong.
You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes.
You want to work with people you are excited about and they are excited about you. It's a two-way street.
Every time you dive, you hope you'll see something new - some new species. Sometimes the ocean gives you a gift, sometimes it doesn't.
I don't think any rapper can go back. You can be a car salesman, a bank teller - I mean, really good jobs, and people are still gonna look at you and be like, 'You used to rap; what happened?'
Fame an fortune are nothing if you're not happy and healthy.
When things are difficult, you have to be sure of who you are and what you want to achieve.
I'm always really curious about, you know, 'How do you deal with success psychologically?' and all this stuff.
I am now a member of the private sector. I'm happy. I've got a little foundation. You never say never, but I may have had my last race and that was the Presidential race. I think that you only get one shot.
You don't usually meet directors on the streets.
Just keep saying yes to everything - until you can afford to say no.
I don't have great running technique, but I like to run. I've heard from countless people that the last six miles of the marathon is all mental. But what better city to have this in than New York City where there are millions of people there supporting you?
Make this the year you tackle that credit card debt once and for all.
You're born single, you die single, but why not being in a relationship is some special 'single' status, I don't understand. Life is less stress being single, I have to admit.
Once in a while, I still witness occasionally sexist behavior and comments from men (which experience has taught me you should always deflect with humour rather than anger). Old habits die hard, after all, and it's unrealistic to expect dinosaurs to fall silent overnight.
I love good stories; you have to have a good plot - characters which intertwine with a good plot.
As you get older, stuff starts to wear down. I can't play four basketball games a week anymore. It takes me three days to recover from one. I'm a little older, a little scrappier. So now I do yoga instead. And whatever else happens in the day, I'm set up in the best way possible. I feel great. I'm so flexible.
I have learned so many things from my mother about the right upbringing, the right values, value for money, value for elders, for family members. I think these things only a parent can teach you.
What you see on the campaign trail is me. It's easy being me.
I even sang once at the opening of a supermarket. You name it, I've done it.
We have two tractor-trailer rigs on the Tour. One is a therapy truck, and one is a workout truck. If everything is going well, you're walking in the workout truck, and when things aren't going well, you're walking in the therapy truck.
I definitely think if you're born into the industry, you get easier access, but that's about it. I have never denied that, but after that, only talent and hard work sustains you.
I'm no lyrical stylist; you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.
It can't be overstated how wonderful it is not to have to audition any more. Any actor will tell you, it's like Christmas.
When you're doing kidney transplants, you have to find out who can exchange kidneys with whom, doing blood tests to make sure it's true. You can't just work on the preliminary data. Then you have to organize the logistics.
If you ever want to understand multitasking in prose, James Joyce is your man.
You can't make an artist like Lady Gaga. You can help support, you can help develop the vision - I think you can add to the vision - but you just can't make an artist like that. That's like saying Lebron James' high school coach made Lebron James.
I still miss my parents every day; I adored them. And when you have no children, friends are even more important to you.
We do not mind establishing a long-term truce between us and you.
You need a director, a script, and a role to justify a risk.
Even people who say that black people are minorities, there are a billion black people in the world. A billion white people. What part of that is a minority? If you separate yourself, then maybe. But I see black people as one man. When I see people beaten on the streets of America, that hurts me. I feel that.
