I really love voice over work, because it lets you go crazy and have fun. You literally can go anywhere with it!
I think it has helped that I am so curious about what has been happening to me and that I have enjoyed watching the changes through my life, you know? I didn't know what was going to happen to me next.
If you're going to spend most of your time in your democracy figuring out how to get oil by intervening into other people's countries and insuring that you follow it with military might, we think there's an alternative. Which would be renewable energy.
There is clearly a Christian New Testament tradition that warns against praying loudly in the front of the temple where everyone can see you.
What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.
I'm only human, and therefore, there's a part of me that's waiting for people to say, 'Enough of you!'
If we were all kind, if we were all loving and respectful to one another, this world would be so different. So it starts with you, and you can do it. Don't let anything hold you back!
Chess is a thinking person's game. But you don't have to be smart to know what's funny! Lots of check, mate!
An hour series is a killer. It's hard on you physically.
People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.
When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you've always got a different ache or pain.
I got my sense of humor from my grandmother. You know, my grandmother was very funny.
I used to have sort of mixed feelings about a producer whose only skills seemed to be going into the studio, schmoozing the artists and making them feel good. I can see now that in some cases, that's what you have to do because that's the only way you're going to get them to produce.
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
My debut album, 'Forget the World,' is all about not listening to the negativity around you and to continue to do what you love, no matter what people think. I love what I do. Dance music is my passion, my life. There is no greater feeling than being one with my fans, partying to the music we love.
When you pay your money to see me, I want you to have the best concert you can have from me.
I think actors always have that fear of unemployment so when the opportunities are there, you just jump on them.
At 35, I'm definitely starting to feel more like a grown-up than I ever have. There's nothing in my life that is childish or whimsical. Having fun is fantastic and I never want to lose a sense of that - and also, I think, you have to have that to put into your work or else it's going to feel stiff.
All the minor sports injuries you acquire over the years begin to multiply like flies when you get over 70.
You need to think, when you get involved in wars, how you're going to get out of them.
You are not a problem that needs solving.
Any time you start judging with an overly critical eye rather than letting things just be, and following what you think is right, it's complicated to find balance.
I mean, making simulations of what you're going to build is tremendously useful if you can get feedback from them that will tell you where you've gone wrong and what you can do about it.
There's a new hit rock group or singer every five minutes, but with country music, you have one hit and those people love you forever.
I decided early on, very early, that the best role I could play is to speak in my own voice, assume my own voice and my own ideas. Even if you support a candidate who ultimately wins, what you say and do is seen through the filter of that candidate.
You could do a 'Les Mis'-type musical about Hamilton, but it would have to be 12 hours long, because the amount of words on the bars when you're writing a typical song - that's maybe got 10 words per line.
That's one of the cool things about fame. You have an affect on society and where it goes.
Brain surgery is a fairly aggressive process. There's a lot to get through. There's the beautiful, delicate shaving first, which is really lovely. There's a wonderful ceremony of putting all the covers on, so only the little bit you're operating on is revealed. But once they make the incision and tear the skin back, the drill comes out.
I went to the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, which was great but very different from a typical university. They sat us down in the first week and said: if you want to party, you've come to the wrong place. There was no lie-ins or skipping lectures.
It makes the heart to tremble when you open an undiscovered tomb.
You know, I don't think of myself as anything like a 'global citizen' or anything of the sort. I am just a Nigerian who's comfortable in other places.
I think the great part about what I do is that there's a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There's a tangible score.
You're not free in life until you're free of wanting other people's approval.
You look at Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Bob Seger. All they ever wanted to do was go out there and entertain, and I'm the same way.
Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later.
Surfing is a life path. You have to really commit... You have to let go and have faith that it's gonna work out when you take off.
