I am going to keep having fun every day I have left, because there is no other way of life. You just have to decide whether you are a Tigger or an Eeyore.
Consumerism is so weird. It's a sort of conspiracy we collude in. You'd think shoppers spending their hard-earned cash would be highly critical. You know that the manufacturers are trying to have you on.
Guest roles are how you get initiated into the industry. It's fun. Over the course of a few years you realise you've done many shows. You get a chance to prove yourself, and that's how you get jobs because of people who have worked with you in the past and trust you.
Really skinny actresses make me hungry - I see them and think, Honey, you need to eat!
Get your work in. Work hard at it. Give it your best effort. And if you get an opportunity, be ready for it. That's respect for the game.
When you make music, you're in really direct contact with your fans out there, so you hear all kinds of stories.
Beneath the surface of your ego's insatiable cravings, your authentic desires are waiting patiently for you to acknowledge, claim and express them.
Once you discover that real pirates are more interesting than fictional ones, you can't look away.
I feel like every couple years MTV reinvents itself in some way, you know?
If you go to Minnesota in January, you should know that it's gonna be cold. You don't panic when the thermometer falls below zero.
I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
Kids will not listen to that. They're going to experiment no matter what, so you have to be honest.
When you go through something, like, you learn to appreciate little things - the birds, trees, flowers.
Well, I always try to look at my characters as being better than I am. That's one of the reasons I guess I became an actor - because you get to create a persona that's bigger or better or more interesting than your own.
Money makes your life easier. If you're lucky to have it, you're lucky.
Every kid I meet who's a reader has got something like that, their fantasy world. And science fiction is the best, especially for girls because it's the one place where you can do the forbidden.
If you don't have women working for you, you really don't know what the people who are buying from you really want.
You can't ignore the obvious. Women after a certain age are believed to be good for nothing in the entertainment field, especially in the Latin world.
If you can write a character who is attractive but morally reprehensible, then you've got a character. It's got to feel like people I know and it doesn't just become a bag of tricks.
Are you sick and tired of these moralizing moralizers imposing their morality on the rest of us? I know I am.
As an actor, the minute you start getting real in interviews, you lose mystery.
My point is, there's no sense trying to squeeze something out of your swing if you can let your clubs do the shotmaking for you.
When people are struggling, that's a painful place to be in, to not know who you are and where you belong and what you desire.
Going through something difficult in your life, music, for me, is always a friend and something that helps you to figure things out.
It's just like - you know, you read the New Testament and you read about all the things, and you think, 'Oh, that's not going on in our community.' Oh yes it is.
You know, 65-year-olds love sneakers because they make them feel forty.
Anything that can unambiguously represent two values - while resisting, just a wee bit, randomly flipping from the state you want retained into the opposite state - can encode binary data.
Being in London has really taught me how important history is. Just having information of the past. It helps you predict the future, which is all we really have as, you know, humans.
It's always extremities when you are a young black male dealing with law enforcement.
Your art is most alive and dangerous when you use it against yourself. That's why I pick at my scabs.
A fighter can always recover, and you never know what they're going to come back with.
When interviewing for a job, tell the editor how you love to report. How your passion is gathering information. Do not mention how you want to be a writer, use the word 'prose,' or that deep down you have a sinking suspicion you are the next Norman Mailer.
Writers write for one reason: to create an emotion in the reader, to reach across and make them feel something. You want a reaction. Yeah, it's nicer when the reaction is to throw flowers than it is to throw brickbats, but you have to accept both equally.
Learning something new is a fabulous way to be refreshed. When work can grind you down, something about learning a new activity thrills the soul. It reminds you that the world is bigger than your desk and your to-do list.
You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.
You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.
