If you believe in chakras - head and heart - I think singing opens them up, like a wide open door.
The beauty of theater is that you get to live the character from beginning to end without stopping. The natural momentum of the story propels you through in such a way that feels organic.
What I learned at that moment on the subway 30 years ago, staring at my blank passport, was this: If you have an impulse to do something, and it's not totally irresponsible, why not do it? It might just be the journey you've always needed.
If you work well, the country will be in good order, and it will be a blessing to the country. The country needs good care.
When you do well, everybody's after you, and sometimes the motives are legitimate, and sometimes it's envy and jealousy.
If you play well, win, don't change too much. But when you don't play well, lose, you have to give the opportunity to the other players.
Sometimes I forget how much people look at you as their hero. I forget that.
The presidency of the United States is an incredible thing. You have an ability to effectuate change at the highest level.
Summertime, this is the time that you flex.
If you blink, you will miss me, but I am in 'Malcolm X.'
'Billy on the Street' is a very exhausting show to do, as you can imagine, but it's worth it.
It's just weird because videos games let you be something that you're not; so does acting, but it puts you in, like, a real-situation-type thing or something totally different.
If you made me the national commissioner of football, I'd tell you one thing that I would mandate. The second Saturday in September, we're going to have conference day. Everybody from the SEC plays a Big 12 team. Everybody from the Big Ten is going to play the ACC. Everybody from the Big East is going to play the Pac-10.
If I was performing, I had no pain. But you can't stay on stage 24 hours a day.
Giants versus Jets Super Bowl. I'm telling you, that's all I want to see.
Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.
Tennis was always there for me, which was lucky. I would go play baseball, basketball, football, hang with my brother, do whatever, and at the end of the day I'd come back and say, 'Hey, Mom, would you hit 15 minutes worth of balls with me?'
I tell my girlfriends - 'Imagine if all the time you put into waxing and primping, you took all of that energy and put it into something useful.'
I am not a retailer - I have never run a store; I have never understood the full details of how you can make a consumer satisfied. To build a company, to do deals, to motivate people: this is what I am able to do.
You can't work all your life.
It turns out that no undergrad class prepares you to start a startup - you learn most of it as you do it.
Study what you love, and you'll never have to work a day in your life. It'll be one great adventure.
What is blackness? Is it the way you talk? Do you got to say, 'Dey this, dey dat.' Or the way you dress? Or is it the forgiving of certain things? What is black enough?
It's like, 'You're not allowed to change. That's not fair. We like you like this.' But I don't. So let me expand and express myself.
I'll tell you one thing you can't do: you can't put your shoes on, then your socks on.
I want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don't know how long you can be taken seriously in rap.
Manipulating people is what's so fun about poker. I love that you can just look into someone's eyes and lie - and it's perfectly acceptable.
I was brought up to think you don't talk about yourself.
With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism, like you've got in Africa now and like you've got in Haiti. So what we're talking about is there has to be an educational program. That's very important.
Even as economic and political freedoms have advanced enormously and generated huge benefits for humanity, they've also created a great deal of anxiety because every time you have to make a choice, there's anxiety about making the wrong one.
I have certain things that I stand for, certain things that I believe in, and if you don't like it and you tell me to go to hell, I think that's your God-given right as a fan. It's one of those deals where I'm that one guy who is outside of that realm of good guy, bad guy. I'm just me, and it elicits a response both positive and negative.
As a children's author, reviewers are generally very nice to you. I only ever wrote one adult book and received such a kicking for it that I was in trauma for the next six months.
To create a big company, you need more partners, as it is hard to handle such a project alone. Such projects bring access to the expertise and management resources of the partners, and their connections above all.
A lot of the time, I write in the third person, but I'm mostly describing my own ordeals. When those unsettled struggles prey on your mind, you become haunted. To get free, you must defeat your ghosts.
You get to be a certain age - I am 58 - and it becomes tricky not to become a caricature of yourself.
I was the overweight kid who didn't have a boyfriend. I listened to other people say, 'You're ugly, you're fat, you're stupid,' and I believed it.
