I wouldn't give people advice except to share with them what I'm doing, which is, You're alive - stay alive.
You will be surprised but I do a lot of studying and I watch National Geographic.
In times of crisis, you just have to bear down and lean on your own instincts and your own beliefs and make decisions.
I love that vision-board thing where you cut out pictures that resonate with you so they'll manifest. I've done that since I was three; I cut out pictures of ladies from the JCPenney catalog.
I have believed in the biographies I have written. I truly can tell you that they have influenced our society politically, culturally, socially.
Go work at the post office or Starbucks if you want balance in your life.
I'm not a trained musician. When folks talk about 'Well, you go to this or that' - the tenor, or the third part - I don't really know what they're talking about.
Unless it's a dead-straight short putt, you should focus on a spot somewhere along the line you want to roll the ball on.
Anything that takes you out of the context of being separate is healing. Anything that takes you out of the context of separateness is intimacy.
Unless you're doing Shakespeare or Chekhov... the written word is not sacrosanct.
I hope people will never stop dressing up as Harry Potter. It feels less to me like something you wear because you think it's a great costume idea and more like something you wear because you really like wearing your Hogwarts robe, and you really only get the one chance per year.
I think that it's our job to sort of band together and say, 'OK, what are the ways the male gaze has seeped into your brain and is affecting the way you treat yourself? Let's work together to eliminate that.'
I'm easy. Very easy. I'll tell you why I am easy. If someone is no good, I get rid of them. It is no good being tough on somebody who can't do the job. If he can do the job, then there is no point in being tough with him.
I think that providing obstructions in the live setting is when you get something that actually means something, as opposed to just aping your way through your greatest hits.
I listen a lot. I think people have their own answers, and if you just listen to someone and agree with them, eventually they'll work it out for themselves.
I want to be helpful to the charities I support. I think you can dilute it, the more you do. You have to be a bit strong about what you do... otherwise, you risk spreading yourself a bit thin, and you can be less useful.
I'm totally pro-porg! I would not eat a porg. They're so cute; you can't eat them. They're friends!
If you take it as a compliment that you don't look your age, then you're really shooting yourself in the foot.
Write what you know.
When you think of Hollywood, you think of the land of opportunity. I always want to have the opportunity to do things conducive to my career.
The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
I know a lot of writers who would much rather be writing the Great American Novel, but they've got bills to pay and alimony, and so they take a job at a less-than-reputable paper. You know, you do what you gotta do.
A bad book and good marketing won't work, the same way a good book and bad marketing will also not work. There is no choice in the matter that if you need to write a good book, you also need to have good marketing for it.
I like physical jobs. I like moving my body around. I like testing it. Lets you feel like you've done something.
The gaunt, unhealthy vegan is the muffin vegan. Bread and fries and processed veggie dogs. It's like, 'Hello? Did you eat your vegetables?'
If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.
My clothes have always got a very strong dynamic rapport with the body - they are very body conscious, they help you to look glamorous, more hourglass, more woman.
The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
If you're a speech writer for a president, you don't really see all that much of him because there's so many layers between you and him. But with a vice president, it's different.
We all need to figure out what's right for us because nothing about life is one size fits all. Even for an Olympian, that's for sure. And such discovery starts with you paying attention - to yourself.
Christians - whether as a priest, a nun, a minister, whatever - have just been stereotyped to death. You try to be a model of kindness and love and forgiveness to all those around you, because you have received kindness and love and forgiveness from God through Christ. That's what Christianity is.
I only like doing live telly. It's great because you go in and do it and then go home. No edit, no retakes.
Part of the privilege of being an actor is the people you get to work with.
When things don't come so naturally to you, you want to persevere, you want to keep pushing yourself to overcome obstacles that prevent you from having the kind of life that you want to have.
If you look at the muscularity of something like 'Wicked' and the way it has just spawned sort of generations of young people wanting to get involved in the theatre - it's brilliant.
You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like it, then it is what it is.'
